3400+ s754 Venice?

A friend from one of mine told me he had a "3400+ venice" when i asked him which processor he had. I asked what memory and then he said OCZ but that he couldn't do dual channel. I asked why, and he said he had a s754 cpu. I thought he was just making this up, but he took some CPU-Z screenshots and I'm really confused. Any ideas what this really is? He said he took the CPU from a computer his family bought from best buy and built himself a new PC with it using the EpoX 8npa.

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Weird? If these really exist I want one for my system!

ya socket 754 cpu's only have a single channel memory controllor so they only run single channel.

I was more focused on the fact that I have never seen a 3400+ venice before, and for s754 even. It has SSE3 so it's clearly not a clawhammer/newcastle.

I know that there are 3000+ Venices in S754. Never heard of 3400+ Venices. I wonder how they overclock?

there are 3000+, 3200+ and 3400+ Venice cpu's for S754 listed on the amd site but I only see the 3000+ for now at newegg......

there are 3000+, 3200+ and 3400+ Venice cpu's for S754 listed on the amd site but I only see the 3000+ for now at newegg......

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That is true. According to Greyhound - a group moderator on AMD's forum - there are indeed 3200+ and 3400+ Venice cpu's that exist according to this quote taken from one of his posts.

Athlon 64 3400+, OPN: 'ADA3400AIK4BO' - rev. DH-E3, 2.4GHz, 512KB L2-cache, 67W TDP
Athlon 64 3200+, OPN: 'ADA3200AIO4BX' - rev. DH-E6, 2.2GHz, 512KB L2-cache, 59W TDP
Athlon 64 3000+, OPN: 'ADA3000AIK4BX' - rev. DH-E6, 2.0GHz, 512KB L2-cache, 51W TDP

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For the full post go here: http://forums.amd.com/index.php?showtopic=63377&pid=569291&mode=threaded&show=&st=35&#entry569291

It is possible that the 3400+ is only being released to vendors at this point and not to the general public in box form as yet. It definitely appears that your friend does indeed have one of these rare beasties as indicated by the DH-E3 core revision in the screenshot. All I can say is he has one rare cpu there and I am envious!
The 3200+ seems to be ready to ship to resellers but I have yet to find one "in the wild" so to speak. I have a 3000+ at the moment but am always scouring the net looking for evidence of the release of the 3200+ and 3400+ . If the overclocking capablilities of the 3000+ are any indication, the 3200+ and 3400+ should oc well also.

If you can - check with your friend and find out what brand of computer this cpu came out of and let us know - I am dying to find out who is building these things!

Talked to him again. The PC he bought from Best Buy was a simple emachines. He just yanked the processor out for his own use and gave the emachine a 2800+ sempron64.

Pretty cool though -- the s754 platform sure is an interesting one... so many CPU's available and lots of mysteries.