Venice Multi-tasking Performance?

[NokiaDude]

Currently I'm running an Winchester 3200+ on an Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe. Right now it's pretty damm fast. But being the speed freak that I am, I'm looking into the Venice 3200+'s because supposedly it should handle multiple open programs better, right? I've got 1GB of Corsair 3200XL ram with super tigh 2-2-2-5-1T timings. When I have 6-8 programs open, my computer starts to pause for simple things like clicking on the start bar or opening a window. RAM isn't the problem because I check the task manager and there's plenty of free ram left. Would a Venice 3200+ cpu eliminate the pauses?

 

[sangyup81]

I think you are thinking of the x2 dual cores?

 

[Duvie]

Could very well be IO defficiencies...List the apps you have open and whether they are running (meaning using cycles) at the same....I do as much and I dont see pauses. I have multiple drives and I try not to overwhelm one drive by spreading read and write commands throughout...I think this is the bigest area ppl are confused about and try to blame the cpu.....

Programs open have little effct if they are not running (using cycles) that would be a ram issue. Programs accessing same drive for reading off of or writing to SAME drive introduces inherent IO issues...Only one read or write command can be done simultanelously on a drive or on even one channel...meaning cd-rom on same channel as HDD can have this issue....

 

[NokiaDude]

I'll have BT running, a windows explorer open, winamp and two instances of firefox open, one with 3 tabs open. The pauses rarely happen but when I'm doing alot of stuff it'll pause for 2-6 seconds. Here's a rundown of my computer

A64+ (939) 3200+
Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe
Asus Geforce 6800 PCI-E 256mb
1GB Corsair DDR400 3200XL RAM 2-2-2-5-1T
Pioneer DVD-A09
Hitachi 7K250 SATA150
Vantec Stealth PSU Model: VAN-520A

Maybe I'm just paranoid or something. Next time I have the system pause I'll post what I had open and what I was doing. At least it rarely happens.

 

[Gamingphreek]

All venice adds is a more refined and updated Memory Controller, various architectural improvements, and SSE3.

Will in no way affect multitasking performance.

If you want an increase, wait until the X2's (Dual Core processors) come out.

-Kevin

 

[NokiaDude]

Wait, so the Venice CPU's don't have the dual core's?!?!? WTF, I've been hearing everyone rave about the Venice san San Diego CPU's. Everyone said they were dual cores!!!

 

[Duvie]

NOooooo....

The venice core is a 90nm core revision of the 512kb L2 cache single cores winchesters....The San Diegos are the core revision to the 90nm clawhammers with 1mb of l2 cache....

Dual cores will be called X2's.....Toledos I believe are their desktop name....

 

[gobucks]

i agree - wait for the x2s. It probably won't be worth it till december though, cause the first models will start at $550 and up in june. AMD will probably do what it did last time with the A64 launch, and bring out $200-300 models a few months later when they actaully make enough of them to start bringing out a full lineup. At that point, it'll be worth it.

According to the reviews, the new x2s are freakin awesome - owning in games and traditional A64 tests and also beating the Pentium D in all the traditional P4 strengths, like media encoding.

 

[hippotautamus]

You don't need a dual core for that kind of "multitasking". I also highly doubt that it's your HDD throttling you - most programs of that nature do not need to read from your hard drive when they're already running, unless you are running very short on ram - which you aren't. However, I have no other explanation to offer you, so I it's as likely as not to my mind