Just built my first PC

[Reynolds]

Just built my first PC, everything is running fine, im using it to make this post except the processor speed.  I have an AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Venice and a MSI k8N Neo4-f Motherboard and im not sure what settings to use in the BIOS to get an optimum CPU speed.  Anyone?

[Gaia]

<p>That's pretty cool.</p><p>What are you naming it?</p>

[nevnut]

Everytime I see your avatar, mudeater, I totally crack-up and am unable to read your post.

[Reynolds]

My avatar just got rejected i guess bull nuts are a no no

<span class=post_edited>This message was edited by mudeater on 1-29-07 @ 3:48 PM</span>

[JPMNICK]

<strong>mudeater</strong> wrote:<br />Just built my first PC, everything is running fine, im using it to make this post except the processor speed.&nbsp; I have an AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Venice and a MSI k8N Neo4-f Motherboard and im not sure what settings to use in the BIOS to get an optimum CPU speed.&nbsp; Anyone? <p>what do you mean by optimum CPU speed. Over clocking, RAM timings? is it running at a slower speed than you expected?</p>

[PapaBear]

My bios has a function that makes it simple. I think it said &quot;optimize&quot;, or something like that.

[johnniewalker]

<strong>JPMNICK</strong> wrote:<br /><strong>mudeater</strong> wrote:<br />Just built my first PC, everything is running fine, im using it to make this post except the processor speed. I have an AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Venice and a MSI k8N Neo4-f Motherboard and im not sure what settings to use in the BIOS to get an optimum CPU speed. Anyone? <p>what do you mean by optimum CPU speed. Over clocking, RAM timings? is it running at a slower speed than you expected?</p><p>&nbsp;Yeah dude, you should really leave the settings on default unless you're trying to overclock. &nbsp; </p>

[Reynolds]

Well I bought the CPU and motherboard seperately.&nbsp; It's a Athlon 3200+ and all tests that I run, Im only getting 2ghz tops.&nbsp; There's something in the manual about when more CPU speed is needed, the motherboard kicks in and delivers more power... i don't know how true that is, whenever I try to up the multiplier I can't even get the computer to start up.

[Gvac]

I am sooooo fuckin' horny right now.

[LordJezo]

<strong>mudeater</strong> wrote:<br />Well I bought the CPU and motherboard seperately. It's a Athlon 3200+ and all tests that I run, Im only getting 2ghz tops. There's something in the manual about when more CPU speed is needed, the motherboard kicks in and delivers more power... i don't know how true that is, whenever I try to up the multiplier I can't even get the computer to start up.<p>&nbsp;</p><p>Um, a 3200+ chip is a 2.2 GHz, not a 3.2 GHz chip.</p><p>The 3200+ thing is just a naming convention AMD adpoted years ago to compete against Intel and their ultra high CPU speeds.&nbsp; Intel was making chips faster and faster while AMD chose to optimize.&nbsp; They needed to change the naming around because people were looking at them and thinking 'Hey, why would I want a 2.2 GHz chip from AMD when I can get a 3.2 one from Intel?&nbsp; Higher number must mean it's faster.&quot;&nbsp; But it's not so AMD did the whole xxxx+ naming thing in order to get people to realize it's not always about pure core speed. </p>

[Reynolds]

I was beginning to suspect that, thanks for helping out.&nbsp; Now I feel like a dumbshit.&nbsp; My old pc was intel p4 2.8ghz with HT, ive tried both with the same amount of RAM and same video card, the AMD seems to run a lot more smoothly and quietly, don't know if it has anything to do with the CPU, but the AMD also starts up about 4x faster after a reboot.&nbsp;