Castrated Cpu z info

Orifice · 17 Feb 2006 at 22:12

Cpu Z doesnt seem to want to work properly on my system, it leaves numerous bits out....

I'm running XP64, but it also does it on standard XP. I've checked any possible settings, and nothing i can see would do anything.

Any ideas?

Phemo · 17 Feb 2006 at 22:16

What motherboard do you have?

Orifice · 17 Feb 2006 at 22:20

Its a Gigabyte K8NMF-9. Using latest F9 bios. Only really a stop gap until I can get hold of a half decent matx board.

p4radox · 17 Feb 2006 at 22:41

Orifice said:
a half decent matx board.

Biostar TForce 939 for the win

Orifice · 17 Feb 2006 at 22:45

I nearly bought one of those as well

Ah well, it does for now, even if it wont let things work. Read on Cpu Z about the Asus boards having some performance thing and disabling it, the Gigabyte has the same and its made no different. Maybe my cpu just doesnt want to play ball.

p4radox · 17 Feb 2006 at 23:15

At the end of the day, you're not really missing much important. You've still got your clock speeds which is nice. Has anything gone AWOL from the other tabs?

Big.Wayne · 17 Feb 2006 at 23:22

Orifice said:
Cpu Z doesnt seem to want to work properly on my system, it leaves numerous bits out....

Any ideas?

Yeah,

there is nothing wrong with your system, its the CPU. This is one of the new SD 3700+ *oems* that overclockers.co.uk are selling right?

If you put a different CPU in everything would be fine, there is just something *weird* about those oem chips. . .

Orifice · 17 Feb 2006 at 23:23

Nope, all the others are fine. As you say, its not important, its just a small thing thats bugging me. Chips does 2.5 at default, but i have to use gigabytes dodgy windows software, so i've taken your advice and got the biostar. It better not be rubbish or i'll break your account

Big.Wayne said:
Yeah,

there is nothing wrong with your system, its the CPU. This is one of the new SD 3700+ *oems* that overclockers.co.uk are selling right?

If you put a different CPU in everything would be fine, there is just something *weird* about those oem chips. . .

Its an OEM yes, one of those ccbwe things. First time i've ever seen an oem chip do something dodgy though, and i've had enough of them. should have stuck with intel

Big.Wayne · 17 Feb 2006 at 23:30

Orifice said:
one of those ccbwe things. . . .should have stuck with intel

No, should have got a retail version of the 3700+ you tight bugger

Orifice · 17 Feb 2006 at 23:32

Bah, it works, it overclocks enough, i dont need a 3yr warranty as it'll be gone in 6 months, and i dont need the heatsink

I would like to know why AMD are doing this though, it makes no sense at all.

Big.Wayne · 17 Feb 2006 at 23:33

Orifice said:
Bah

Bah to you too, next time I will leave you scratching

Orifice · 17 Feb 2006 at 23:40

It was bah to AMD

Thanks for the answer though, i shall investigate further.

p4radox · 18 Feb 2006 at 00:42

Orifice said:
Nope, all the others are fine. As you say, its not important, its just a small thing thats bugging me. Chips does 2.5 at default, but i have to use gigabytes dodgy windows software, so i've taken your advice and got the biostar. It better not be rubbish or i'll break your account

Ahhh, abuse of power at its most prominent

It's a great little board, you'll love it.

/hopes for the sake of membership that it's not DOA...

m3csl2004 · 18 Feb 2006 at 00:49

maybe to do with the revision of the chip not being supported (E5???)

marc2003 · 18 Feb 2006 at 01:11

Orifice said:
but i have to use gigabytes dodgy windows software

this may cause it. i know the SPD tabs go blank in cpuz (for me at least) if i use clockgen to overclock in windows.

try running cpuz before using that software?

Orifice · 18 Feb 2006 at 14:30

marc2003 said:
this may cause it. i know the SPD tabs go blank in cpuz (for me at least) if i use clockgen to overclock in windows.

try running cpuz before using that software?

I've tried that, and still the same thing. I asked about it on the amd forum, and someone said...

Toledo Rev. JH-E6 with an entire Core disabled

So i'll have a look when the chip comes out later.

VoG · 18 Feb 2006 at 14:38

you could allways try cbid instead.

get cbid from here

Orifice · 18 Feb 2006 at 23:31

I've found the problem, cpu z doesnt apparently support that revision of the chip, as its supposedly a dual core cpu with one core disabled.

loltim · 19 Feb 2006 at 00:08

Odd, I thought 3700+s with 1MB L2 were San Diegos. If it is a Toledo with one of the cores disabled I wouldn't have thought it'd clock anywhere near as well as the San Diego, prove me wrong :cool:

Orifice · 19 Feb 2006 at 00:16

It'll do 2.5Ghz at default, but until i get a better board i cant go any higher. As soon as it arrives i'll see what it does.