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winch or ven?

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Brian23

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Should I get a Winchester or Venison? If I get the venison, I'll be full now, but if I get the winchester, I can use it to get venison later. What should I do?
 
ven·i·son Pronunciation Key (vn-sn, -zn)
n.
The flesh of a deer used as food.
Archaic. The flesh of a game animal used as food.


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[Middle English veneson, from Old French, from Latin vnti, vntin-, hunting, from vntus, past participle of vnr, to hunt. See wen-1 in Indo-European Roots.]
 
Originally posted by: Brian23
ven·i·son Pronunciation Key (vn-sn, -zn)
n.
The flesh of a deer used as food.
Archaic. The flesh of a game animal used as food.
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NICE!

I would say a Venice if the price is right... personally I went for the 3000+winchester, as I justed oced it to about 2.337GHz (275*8.5) with corsair VALUE memory... works great! and only $126
 
You do know that with half multi's you force a divider on your memory timings(Although I'm not sure that Corsair value would run with the HTT at 275 without a divider). I think there may be other negative effects of running a half multi, but not sure. There is some info floating around about it.
 
I am using a 3/4 fsb:mem ratio. I used the half multiplier cuz it wouldn't boot at 9x and it too *slow lol.
 
wait for lower end venice reviews before you buy. The venice 3800+ can OC pretty high, ~2.9GHz with the very first silicon it seems, but if the chips end up on a more normalized frequency distribution this time around, then that means more binning, and that means that low rated chips (3200+, 3000+, etc.) will actually be worse silicon than the higher rated 3800+ and such. So it's possible that a venice 3000+ might, say, top out at 2.2-2.3GHz, whereas a winchester might top off at 2.6-2.7GHz. Of course, we could have a repeat of winchester, in which even the lowest chips can clock just as high as the highest end chips can.

OCing and price being close to equal, though, I'd say venice is the way to go. Its memory controller is fixed (4 single sided Dimms at DDR400/1T and 4 double sided DIMMS at DDR400/2T are now possible), its got SSE3 (although it doesn't do much to help at present), it seems to OC better, the sub-zero boot bug from winchester is gone for all you phase change cooling junkies, and it's roughly 1-2% faster clock for clock than winchester. None of these improvements by themselves are that important, but all of them together with no downsides makes it a pretty big improvement.
 
if they can get the 3000+ Venice to OC to 2.8-2.9ghz, we're probably looking at the A64 equivalent of TbredB... ahh the good days.
 
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