I need help with my Athlon 3700-M

[phenderson]

My DFI nfinity nforce 4 S754 MB recognizes and posts it as a 3700-m, but it only operates at 800 megahurtz. How do I get its correct speed that its supposed to operate at?

 

[TheStu]

its like dis...

I'm not sure how this may have changed from my days of XP-Ms... but what you have to do is maually set the FSB and mulitplier on that chip.

Just curious, why did you get a mobile chip if you didnt know that? The reason most people get mobile chips is for either overclocking, or underclocking... if you are intending to run it stock... that's a little silly in my opinion.

You will need to go into the BIOS on your board and change the FSB to say... 200, and the multi to whatever.. call it 11. That will put you at 2.2 and should be a good startng point.

What is the cooling you have, and what kind of RAM do you have?

 

[TheStu]

sorry, set the multi to 12 in order to have it run at stock

 

[phenderson]

RAM is PC3200 (400)

I just thought it would be cool to give my wife a nice CPU...
I am playing with the stuff now... hard to find the multiplier on this MB... just does not say Multi... I will try though

 

[TheStu]

definitely just play with it for a while, you should be able to find what you are looking for.