hi i have recently just built a machine running the specs as above on a winfast 6100k8MB motherboard. now the 3200 i would have thot wud run a bit faster than being detected by windows. its showing at 1.81. if sumone cud could help me with clock/voltage settings in the bios that would be a great help. thanks

Sempron 3200?

There's a S754 Sempron 3100+ that runs at 1.8GHz or a 3300+ that runs at 2.0GHz, but AFIAK, there is no 3200+ S754 Sempron.

ah right sorry typo there! yeah its a 3100 64 sempron. is there anyway poss to overclock this?

Yep there sure is, i havnt been anywhere near one to do it though, but ive seen articles on the web of people saying that they can overclock it perfectly stable at 1.55V at 2.5ghz, but I found way more saying that they could only get 2.1ghz-2.4ghz out of it, but either way, it still overclocks very well.

Amd 3700+
2Gig Corsair
Msi-Ms-7184 mobo
ATI Radeon x850xt pciXpress 256mb
Antec Trupower 430watt
Creative soundblaster pci
200Gb seagate IDE 7200rpm

The 3100+ Sempron should easily overclock to 2250MHz (9 x 250MHz), possibly higher...it depends on your motherboard & what overclocking options are available in the BIOS. Here's some general recommendations:

- lock the PCI-E at 100MHz
- disable any Spread Spectrum settings
- lower the HTT multi to 3x
- change the CPU:DRAM ratio to 5:4, if that's not an option, set the RAM to 166MHz (DDR333)
- increase the CPU Freq to 250MHz (you may wanna try this in small steps, 5-10MHz at a time)
- be prepared to increase the CPU voltage if necessary

Use CPUZ to confirm your settings:

http://www.cpuid.org/cpuz.php#download