Looking for Venice to Sandiego comparisons.

[HDTVMan]

Has anyone done a comparison of Sandiego to Venice?

From reading this is what I understand.
(remember I used forums to determine this because I have not seen any formal articles)

Venice is a better overclocker.
Paris is a better performer only in applications like databases not normal usage.

Personally I would just like a reference to a published article is someone has one. Forums get very cluttered and compare 2 not similar configs.

 

[theMan]

 

[CheesePoofs]

Paris is the core used in the semprons. Venice and Sandiego, IIRC, are the same except sandiego has 1mb L2 cache, while Venice has 512kb L2 cache.

 

[Avalon]

Way to copy and paste

 

[CheesePoofs]

Just read your other thread, and you don't need another thread. You could have just edited the first. And you still didnt' fix the problem; it says "paris," not "sandiego."

 

[HDTVMan]

I didnt know that. Again My Bad. Will do that next time.

I am the master of cut and paste.

I know about the cache difference I was just wondering if anyone has posted the same clock speed to see if the additional cache makes any difference and if so what applications? I would hope the same machine was used just someone swapped CPU's.

 

[imported_wyrmrider]

hdtv
It depends on YOUR applications and needs
what are you looking for?
remember -sometimes a hard drive or video card makes more difference than how much cache or how wide the memory channel is
start off with a search

wyrmrider

 

[HDTVMan]

Priority of the next machine.

1-Gaming because Im not gaming enough because lately my machine is lagging.
2-Database programming/web development.
3-typical durf the web read chat etc. Nothing CPU intensive.

Lets say they both overclock to around the same point. Am I going to get 2-3% more from the extra cache?

 

[theMan]

it really depends on oc'ing. the venice will go higher, but the SD has more cache so it will be better at the same clock. if you dont oc much, just get a 3700+ SD anc clock it up 200mhz.

 

[GuitarDaddy]

I did a comparison when I swapped from a winnie 3200+ to a SD 3700+ at the same clocks 2200mhz and the extra cache won by 1-3% in most benchmarks. The main difference I noticed was an increase of 10% in Sandra memory bandwidth and 15-18% in frames per second in game benches like HL2, X2, D3 time demo. The increased frames must be attributed to SSE3+bandwidth

 

[HDTVMan]

15-18% is pretty huge considering I dont believe SSE3 should have made that much difference.

I think I am just going to quit being cheap and go for the San Diego. Its a 70.00 difference and the chip is like 2 speed grades higher by default so why not.

I was originally thinking the 70.00 difference could go toward a better video card as a more bang for the buck thought.