Hi everybody. What a good site this is. The Gigabyte manual states that you must set the CLK sw to 100MHz [off] if using a FSB 200MHz CPU.[ which I believe the 3200 is] Now whether I set the ratio to 11x or Auto the BIOS shows PSU as 1100. However, if I switch the CLK to Auto [on] then I get the correct BIOS reading of 3200 with the ratio at 11x or Auto. Should I be happy with this? The only downside with this recent upgrade from a AMD 2500 is that my BIOS is showing a temp. of around 63 to 70c. I can't remember what the temp. was with the 2500. CPU Voltage is 1.675 Thanks in advance for any comment. Newbie George

From your description of the temperature I would say either the thermal paste is applied incorrectly or else the heat sink or fan is under spec. If it was you that atttched the sink to the chip then i would take it off and repaste it using silver paste and use it a lot more sparingly regarding the bus speeds. It seems to be the best idea to use auto - it will be working exactly as you want it to work. - you should leave the switch on as its only for a speed of 256 or other non x100 speeds you click it off. yours is 200 so is operating at 2x100 so your settings are now correct the way you have set up is good!

The AXP 3200+ is a 400MHz FSB CPU (200MHz actual), not 200MHz FSB (100MHz actual). It's supposed to run at 11 x 200MHz (2.2GHz). Leave the CLK SW on AUTO. Hopefully you didn't pay much for the 3200+? Essentially, the 2500+ IS a 3200+. They're both based on the Barton core & both use the 11x multiplier...the only difference is the FSB speed. All you would have had to do was change the FSB from 333MHz to 400MHz & the 2500+ would have run at 2.2GHz. The 2500+ was the "hot ticket" several years ago...everyone was buying them instead of the 3200+ because they were so much cheaper, then simply overclocking them to 2.2GHz. If the CPU temp reading is correct, it's WAY too high & is bordering on a meltdown. The AXP is not thermally protected & can easily fry if overheated. When applying paste, you should have used a small dab about the size of a grain of rice & spread it thinly & evenly over the CPU core. If you did it any other way, remove the heatsink, clean it & the top of the CPU & reapply it correctly. Here's the instructions: http://www.arcticsilver.com/pdf/app... BTW, the correct CPU voltage for both the 2500+ & 3200+ is 1.65v. And hopefully you have DDR400 RAM to go with your 400MHz FSB CPU? "If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions" - Jules Winnfield (Samuel L. Jackson) in Pulp Fiction

Hi libra & jam. Thank you both for your quick response which clarified my post.As you have both suggested the problem seems to have been too much paste, which I had applied. I have rectified this and the temp. is now down to 50-60c. A reduction of about 10c. Once again thanks for your help. George PS. sorry I got my FSB & Mhz mixed up but do basically understand the difference.