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Venice or Winchester?

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t3h l337 n3wb

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I have a ~$200 budget for the processor. Will the 3200+ Venice be out by then? Or should I just get a Winchester? Will the price be about the same?
 
also, venice works better with 4 memory DIMMS. It can run all 4 of them at DDR400 (and 1T if they are single sided) whereas winchester can only run at DDR333/2T.

I definitely say it's worth the extra few bucks.
 
It's so hard to find one sided dimms in a performance oriented RAM. Will the venice be able to reach better than ddr400 with a little coaxing (can anyone say VX?)
 
If you don't like the single-sided 512 meg DIMMS out there and you need 2 gigs of RAM, you can always get 2 1 gig sticks. There are some decent ones kicking around now.

Here's the only single-sided 512 meg DIMM I know:

http://www2.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820146541

As hippotautamus said, this is not performance-oriented RAM. I've gotten it to run at 2.5-2-2-8 @ 200, and supposedly it can go up to about 227 mhz at 3-3-3-8. Supposedly.
 
Originally posted by: t3h l337 n3wb
k sure, I'll get the Venice 😀 I still dont know what SSE2 is, in fact, I dont know what SSE is -_-;
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So the goal with CPUs is to process data fast. AMD and Intel wanted to be able to perform the same instruction on multiple pieces of data.

Say you have the number: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. You want to square them all. You feed in 5 pieces of data but you perform 1 on them. This is called data parallelism, which increases speed--a concept of the 90s. This is referred to as SIMD (single instruction, multiple data). SSE and MMX were simply SIMD instructions. 3DNow! were SIMD instructions. SSE came with the P3 and SSE2 came with the Willamette and SSE3 came with Prescott I think?

AMD has been behind with SSE instructions since they are by Intel anyways. SSE support didn't even come till like Palomino I think. SSE3 is now just coming in with Venice. With better SIMD s upport you will h ave better performance. Thus, Venice should be SLIGHTLY faster than Winchester. We're talking like 1 - 2% or even less. According to the Xbitlabs benches I saw it was like under 1% in many cases. However, if Venice is the same price adn designed to replace Winchester just like Winchester was designed to replace Newcastle, then why not get Venice.
 
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