How to buy a San Diego 3700+ rev E6

[joelnews]

I'm interested in building a new system with an Asus A8N-SLI Premium
motherboard and an AMD Athlon 64 3700+ San Diego. Unfortunately, the
Asus site lists only the 3700+ rev E6 (not E4) as being supported. How
can I buy an E6? I called newegg tech support, and they couldn't tell
me what rev they're selling.

Thanks!
Joel

 

[Malcolm]

I'm interested in building a new system with an Asus A8N-SLI Premium
motherboard and an AMD Athlon 64 3700+ San Diego. Unfortunately, the
Asus site lists only the 3700+ rev E6 (not E4) as being supported. How
can I buy an E6? I called newegg tech support, and they couldn't tell
me what rev they're selling.

Thanks!
Joel

Hi
Zipzoomfly have the E6 revision ADA3700BNBOX

http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=80719-5

http://www.amdcompare.com/us-en/desktop/details.aspx?opn=ADA3700DKA5CF

 

[Wes Newell]

I'm interested in building a new system with an Asus A8N-SLI Premium
motherboard and an AMD Athlon 64 3700+ San Diego. Unfortunately, the
Asus site lists only the 3700+ rev E6 (not E4) as being supported. How
can I buy an E6? I called newegg tech support, and they couldn't tell
me what rev they're selling.

Get the part number and then compare it. These are E6.

Ordering P/N (Tray) ADA3700DKA5CF
Ordering P/N (PIB) ADA3700BNBOX

http://www.amdcompare.com/us-en/desktop/

Newegg sales the boxed version.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819103539

And I didn't have to talk to anyone.

 

[kirbalo]

There shouldn't be any reason that the A8N-SLI Premium wouldn't support the
E4 stepping...

But the E6 is "New & Improved"...guaranteed to be a 1.35V instead of a
possibility of getting a 1.4V, along with other tasty ingredients...

 

[joelnews]

ADA3700BNBOX applies to both the E4 and E6 steppings. I can't see any
way to tell which version zipzoomfly.com is selling.

 

[joelnews]

It does seem strange that the A8N-SLI Premium won't support the E4
stepping. If you look at board support for the E4 stepping on
asus.com, the A8N-SLI Premium is definitely not listed, while many
other Asus boards are listed.

Strange.

Joel

 

[Wes Newell]

ADA3700BNBOX applies to both the E4 and E6 steppings. I can't see any
way to tell which version zipzoomfly.com is selling.

Buy the OEM version if you can't get them to confirm the number on the cpu
itself.

 

[General Schvantzkoph]

I'm interested in building a new system with an Asus A8N-SLI Premium
motherboard and an AMD Athlon 64 3700+ San Diego. Unfortunately, the
Asus site lists only the 3700+ rev E6 (not E4) as being supported. How
can I buy an E6? I called newegg tech support, and they couldn't tell
me what rev they're selling.

Thanks!
Joel

Buy a tested combo, that will guarantee that you get a processor that's
compatible with the motherboard.

 

[Al Dykes]

Buy a tested combo, that will guarantee that you get a processor that's
compatible with the motherboard.

Does anyone have a good mailorder dealer that does this? The last time
I checked, newegg didn't put any parts together.

 

[Chinooks_FURY]

Her ya go:

http://www.monarchcomputer.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=M&Category_Code=AMDC

 

[David Stites]

Her ya go:

http://www.monarchcomputer.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=M&Category_Code=AMDC

I just bought a motherboard and cpu combo from. I can get Windows 2000 SP1
to run but not SP2,3,or 4. Likewise I can't get XP or XP x64 to install. I'm
not very happy.

 

[General Schvantzkoph]

I just bought a motherboard and cpu combo from. I can get Windows 2000 SP1
to run but not SP2,3,or 4. Likewise I can't get XP or XP x64 to install. I'm
not very happy.

Sounds like a Windows problem, not a hardware problem. There must be some
sort of driver issue that's introduced by the later service packs. If you
had a hardware problem then you wouldn't have been able to get W2K SP1 to
work either.

 

[General Schvantzkoph]

Her ya go:

http://www.monarchcomputer.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=M&Category_Code=AMDC

I got an MSI K8N Neo4 with an X2 4400+ system from them and they did a
nice job putting it together. There are other companies that offer combos
also, take a look at http://www.pricewatch.com and you'll find a lot of
places to buy a combo.

 

[nos1eep]

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A. Depth perception.

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[Wes Newell]

I just bought a motherboard and cpu combo from. I can get Windows 2000 SP1
to run but not SP2,3,or 4. Likewise I can't get XP or XP x64 to install. I'm
not very happy.

Then try Linux or bitch at MS.

Did you run memtest on it after the build to make sure the hardware is
functioning properly?

 

[David Stites]

Then try Linux or bitch at MS.

Did you run memtest on it after the build to make sure the hardware is
functioning properly?

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I ran memtest86 v3.2 for 2.5 hours with no problems. BTW, Slackware 10.1
won't install either. I upgraded the BIOS to the latest version. I turned
off USB, RAID, and SATA in the BIOS. I have a Gigabyte GA-K8NSC-939 with
3200+ Venice stepping 0, Revision DH-E3. 2 G Corsair memory.

 

[General Schvantzkoph]

I ran memtest86 v3.2 for 2.5 hours with no problems. BTW, Slackware 10.1
won't install either. I upgraded the BIOS to the latest version. I turned
off USB, RAID, and SATA in the BIOS. I have a Gigabyte GA-K8NSC-939 with
3200+ Venice stepping 0, Revision DH-E3. 2 G Corsair memory.

I don't know how up to date the Slackware installer is. Give Ubuntu a try,
it has a pretty good installer and it's only one CD.

Is your disk an SATA or ATA disk? SATA on an Nforce4 requires the right
drivers. Fedora Core 3 and 4 work fine as does Ubuntu. Mandriva doesn't
work unless you give it a noapic switch, it's possible that Slackware has
the same problem. As for Windows who knows. When you buy a fully
configured Windows box the restore CD has all of the necessary drivers. 2K
is 5 years old and XP is three years old so they won't have the drivers
for an Nforce4 SATA controller on a standard install CD. If you have an
SATA and Ubuntu or FC4 works the issue is probably an SATA driver problem.

 

[David Stites]

I don't know how up to date the Slackware installer is. Give Ubuntu a try,
it has a pretty good installer and it's only one CD.

Is your disk an SATA or ATA disk? SATA on an Nforce4 requires the right
drivers. Fedora Core 3 and 4 work fine as does Ubuntu.

My disk is ATA and the board has Nforce3 chipset not 4. I heard somewhere
that I need to install the RAID drivers even though I'm not using RAID. I
will try that next and then as a last resort I will call Microsoft.
I have a 3800+ x2 on a Nvidia motherboard with Nforce4 chipset and XP x64
installed on that without too much hassle. Then I had to go online to get
the x64 drivers, they didn't come on the disk that came with the
motherboard.