oem 3700s for £111, got to be bargain

k3v · 21 May 2006 at 14:54

Mul said:
afraid not. I doubt they'd just put the cpu through the letter box either. It'd require a signature.

Mul

thanks for the reply... that's me stuffed then

Mul · 21 May 2006 at 15:01

saturday delivery is an option

Mul

trojan698 · 21 May 2006 at 15:02

Pull a sicky tbh

Mikey · 21 May 2006 at 15:14

I was orginally going to get a Venus for my new shuttle 3500+, but having a 3700+ in there is more tempting

Looks like more L2 cache on the san diegos which has to be a better thing

booyaka · 22 May 2006 at 09:58

if they are anything like mine, then 2.75ghz is easy to hit, at stock volts!!

Mikey · 22 May 2006 at 10:01

Well I've ordered on for my ST20G5 shuttle, but have no intention of clocking it atm as I only have standard RAM and the Shuttle being som compact don't want to generate too much heat.

I'll have 2 disks in my shuttle a spinpoint 160GB and 36GB raptor, and i'm already concerned about temps for the Raptor, let alone the CPU etc.

WatchTower · 22 May 2006 at 11:44

I can get 2.7Ghz on my 3200 so I'm guess if you could get to almost if not 3Ghz.

booyaka · 22 May 2006 at 13:49

WatchTower said:
I can get 2.7Ghz on my 3200 so I'm guess if you could get to almost if not 3Ghz.

very happy with 2.75ghz - not really wanting to increase the core volts. (fails to post @ 2.8ghz on stock volts)

Nice overclock by you -all the same!

ichabod crane · 22 May 2006 at 13:50

you can just hit 3 on a 3700, with a good board and memory. mine runs stable at 2.8 most ive got on my board but excellent cpu

booyaka · 22 May 2006 at 15:37

ichabod crane said:
you can just hit 3 on a 3700, with a good board and memory. mine runs stable at 2.8 most ive got on my board but excellent cpu

better up date your sign then!!!!

k3v · 23 May 2006 at 08:54

if these clock to 2.8 ish, I might just get a 3200 chip and save a bit of money as they seem to clock to nearly the same. is this correct?

ichabod crane · 23 May 2006 at 09:36

pends on your, board and how well u know what your doing

Minstadave · 23 May 2006 at 10:55

k3v said:
if these clock to 2.8 ish, I might just get a 3200 chip and save a bit of money as they seem to clock to nearly the same. is this correct?

These have twice the L2 cache and do clock better on average, but its up to you

Ender · 23 May 2006 at 19:55

a 3700 1mb cache equals about a 200mhz increase, and so a san diego at 2.8 would be equal to a 3200 at 3.0ghz

plus the 3700 clock better on average

k3v · 23 May 2006 at 21:18

well I've done the sensible thing and bought a 3700, thanks guys

bigmike20vt · 23 May 2006 at 23:08

yay have been approved now i can post

i baught one of these £111 3700's sadly my board hasnt arrived yet (not from overclockers)

however i am a little worried.

ADA3700DKA5CF it seems isnt a sandiego chip its a crippled toedo chip. Now there isnt at stock speeds owt in it, however, as these have failed, i think one could assume that these chips are from nearer the edge of the wafer and are poorer quality chips. This bears true as some people are saying they are crap overclockers.......

So my question is, has anyone recieved any of these chips from overclockers yet (note the ones with the above E6 stepping) and if so what headroom are you getting out of them (i was kind of hoping on 250x11)

m3csl2004 · 24 May 2006 at 10:19

bigmike20vt said:
yay have been approved now i can post

i baught one of these £111 3700's sadly my board hasnt arrived yet (not from overclockers)

however i am a little worried.

ADA3700DKA5CF it seems isnt a sandiego chip its a crippled toedo chip. Now there isnt at stock speeds owt in it, however, as these have failed, i think one could assume that these chips are from nearer the edge of the wafer and are poorer quality chips. This bears true as some people are saying they are crap overclockers.......

So my question is, has anyone recieved any of these chips from overclockers yet (note the ones with the above E6 stepping) and if so what headroom are you getting out of them (i was kind of hoping on 250x11)

I can predict the future

generally mate, in dual cores, theres 1 crap core and 1 good core, ive seen disabled core toledos do just as well as the normal, proper single cored 3700'

Mikey · 24 May 2006 at 10:24

Well I install the 3700+ into my new ST20G5 shuttle and at the moment haven't seen a fantasticly quick machine yet. At the moment I've put Windows x64 on it with the various drivers from shuttle. So I'll prob tinker around with it a bit more and then prob put my normal XP Pro back on. I only installed the trial x64 to have a look, nothing more nothing less.

The orginal plan for this system was for it to be the driving force for my VMWare sessions. I may dig out Half Life 2, but I've got to pay £10 to get the Steam account reset as it was given to me by a friend.

All in all not what I was expecting.. It's also running a dual TFT 17" IIyama E431-S set-up and again, I'm now tempted to get shot of both TFTs and just get a bigger one.

bigmike20vt · 24 May 2006 at 10:40

m3csl2004 said:
I can predict the future

generally mate, in dual cores, theres 1 crap core and 1 good core, ive seen disabled core toledos do just as well as the normal, proper single cored 3700'

lol i only just noticed the Tony Soprano avatar is used by multiple people.... i was reading the forum and thinking that you had a major multiple personality problem

nope not asking to predict the future, just hoping for a few people to chime in with their overclocks on this chip. After all we did buy from a company called "overclockers" so hopefully most will be into frying their chip as much as i am

if it aint broke overclock it till it is.

AceCard · 24 May 2006 at 11:04

Sin-Tex said:
So these things won't overclock any better than the San Deigo's then.
Was kinda hopeing they where new cores that would overclock even better.

well i bought my oem 3700+ a few weeks back now, and mine runs coll and stable(in a shuttle) at 2.8ghz

fx-57 for £110 anyone??