• We’re currently investigating an issue related to the forum theme and styling that is impacting page layout and visual formatting. The problem has been identified, and we are actively working on a resolution. There is no impact to user data or functionality, this is strictly a front-end display issue. We’ll post an update once the fix has been deployed. Thanks for your patience while we get this sorted.

Whats the difference with all the AMD chipsets

H

HorseShoe

Member
Hey guys I was going to buy an AMD processor, possibly a 3200 one, and when I was browsing on the newegg website I saw that there were so many different chipsets for different clock speeds. Can someone explain to me whats the difference between all these chipsets or point me to someplace that will tell me.

Also I was thinking of OC it and I just wanted to know if you run your cpu too hot would it loose any performance or would it just be bad for it? And is it safe to run it OCed all the time and leave it on all the time?
 
Chipsets are not processors. "Venice, Winchester, San Diego" are different iterations or 'generations' of the AMD64 processor. Kristopher Kubicki & Jarred Walton just did a good overview of the current state of them in the article here at Anandtech: Text

Chipsets for that processor are manufactured by Via, Nvidia, Amd, and others. Each can have different features, perform better or not, etc. Suggest you search through the articles here: http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/
 
Originally posted by: WebDude
Chipsets are not processors. "Venice, Winchester, San Diego" are different iterations or 'generations' of the AMD64 processor. Kristopher Kubicki & Jarred Walton just did a good overview of the current state of them in the article here at Anandtech: Text

Chipsets for that processor are manufactured by Via, Nvidia, Amd, and others. Each can have different features, perform better or not, etc. Suggest you search through the articles here: http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/
Click to expand...

nVidia chipsets are for old and extinct computers or servers. nVidia *chips* are for A64s. 🙂
 
chipsets pertain only to motherboards. motherboard manufacturers make their products based on the chipsets of other companies. but, you do need to have a chipset compatible with the processor. the venice, winchester, newcassle, hammer, is just the different codenames for each revision of the chip. you want to get one of the newer ones, Venice, and San Diego.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

TRENDING THREADS

Back
Top