Winchester vs Venice

[amdwolfman]

I'm currently running a 3000 winchester. My buddy bought a venice 3000 and he's dissing mine,lol@him. In the first place I was going to go 3500 venice but that deal fizzled,so I settled for this 3000. But what really makes venice better then winchester. We're both running 3000's now. I'm also running Asrock DualSata2 I'll update my sig in a bit, but any info would be appreciated. Thx

 

[orangat]

The Venice has sse3, better memory controller for running 4 dimms at 400 and potentially better overclocks.

 

[interchange]

Originally posted by: orangat
The Venice has sse3, better memory controller for running 4 dimms at 400 and potentially better overclocks.

Yup, but if you're running 2 DIMMs and not overclocked, you're pretty much the same. SSE3 isn't used by much.

 

[amdwolfman]

thx for the reply's . I'm still thinking of getting a 3500 venice tho i guess,lol.

 

[CraigRT]

Originally posted by: amdwolfman
thx for the reply's . I'm still thinking of getting a 3500 venice tho i guess,lol.

I have a 3500 Venice... great CPU.

 

[dguy6789]

As stated above:

The 3000+ Venice and 3000+ Winchester perform the same. The key differences are that the Venice has SSE3,(which in itself is unbeneficial in any scenario with Athlon 64s to date) a memory controller that allows you to run 4 double sided dimms at 400Mhz,(the winchester only allows 4 double sided dims at 333Mhz) and more overclocking headroom by a fair margin.

I see absolutely no reason to buy a cpu along the lines of a 3400/3500+ as the 3000+ venice will overclock as well as them and reach FX55 speeds more than 99% of the time.

 

[lein]

I read somewhere that you need SSE3 to run the x86 version of Mac OSX. Don't know if its true, just remember reading something about it.

 

[GuitarDaddy]

Overclock that winchester, you may not need a new chip. Mine has been running 2.6ghz for a year now

 

[Arcanedeath]

My winchester is running fine at 2.4ghz and if I got a real hsf it'd go higher.