Athlon 64 3200+ (ADA 3200AIO4BX)

[dogubit]

I have had a new Elitegroup K8M800-M2 motherboard given to me that is an AMD 754 pin socket. I looked at the ECS site and found a BIOS upgrade that allows it to use a Athlon 64 3200+ (2.2GHz I think), but I see all kinds of names referenced after the Athlon 64 3200 part and haven't a clue as to what is what.
So I have found this "Athlon 64 3200+ (ADA 3200AIO4BX)" for $32.00us is there a working difference between the Atlons? I would like to get the fastest CPU I can for the board. Also is this a multi core or single core chip? I still have to get memory and a heat sink for the board if I decide to use it so cost is a factor also. So any advice offered would be helpful to allow me to decide if it's wise to spend money on this board or go another direction, thanks.

 

[blazed]

There are both a socket 939 and a socket 754 Athlon 64 3200+ so you have to make sure its the right one, believe that one was 2.2ghz 512k L2 cache there was also the 3400+ in 2 varietys as well as a lesser seen 3700+ and the rare 4000+ mobile (no IHS) chip for 754. They are all single core, and no dual channel memory support.

Its a decent platform for sure, best single core CPUs around.

 

[snakeman300]

I have the same board and the same processor. up date the bios and it will work fine . that cpu is a venice and at the moment i have took mine up to 2530 mhz with no voltage adjustment (2200 mhz stock)as these boards have no vcore adjustment