Lynch Posted September 27, 2005 Report Share Posted September 27, 2005 Im building a system for my brother in law, well while im looking around on newegg for the cpu i figure a AMD 64 3500+ would be a good pick but im stumped on which core to choose Venice (219$) or ClawHammer (231$) im wondering would the difference of the core really make that much a differenceso far the set up is CHAINTECH VNF4/Ultra Socket 939 Amd Athlon 64 3500+OCZ Gold Series 1GB (2 x 512MB)DIAMOND GX800XLPCIEWB Radeon X800XL Antec TRUEPOWERII 430WCreative Sound Blaster Audigy2 ZS Maxtor DiamondMax 10 250GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATAPLEXTOR SATA DVD Burner Model PX-716SA/SW the case,monitor,speakers,keyboard,and mouse are up to him to what suits him the best Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TheTerrorist_75 Posted September 27, 2005 Report Share Posted September 27, 2005 (edited) AMD Athlon 64 Core Explanation Edited September 27, 2005 by TheTerrorist_75 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Falcon1986 Posted September 27, 2005 Report Share Posted September 27, 2005 Im building a system for my brother in law, well while im looking around on newegg for the cpu i figure a AMD 64 3500+ would be a good pick but im stumped on which core to choose Venice (219$) or ClawHammer (231$) im wondering would the difference of the core really make that much a differenceso far the set up is CHAINTECH VNF4/Ultra Socket 939 Amd Athlon 64 3500+OCZ Gold Series 1GB (2 x 512MB)DIAMOND GX800XLPCIEWB Radeon X800XL Antec TRUEPOWERII 430WCreative Sound Blaster Audigy2 ZS Maxtor DiamondMax 10 250GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATAPLEXTOR SATA DVD Burner Model PX-716SA/SW the case,monitor,speakers,keyboard,and mouse are up to him to what suits him the best<{POST_SNAPBACK}>Go with the Venice core. I believe the Venice core was a step-up from the Clawhammer core.The Winchester, Venice and San Diego cores are all 90nm SOI, whereas the Clawhammer is 130nm SOI. The newer cores work on a lower voltage and power but still give good performance comparible to the previous cores, so they produce less heat.The Venice core also supports SSE3 which previous cores do not support and this includes the Clawhammer.Read more about Athlon64 CPUs at Wikipedia. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Aluvus Posted September 27, 2005 Report Share Posted September 27, 2005 Venice. Less heat.I compared some of the AMD cores here. It needs an update, badly. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Mx² Posted September 27, 2005 Report Share Posted September 27, 2005 Venice Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Freidog Posted September 28, 2005 Report Share Posted September 28, 2005 yep, go with Venice: lower power, better memory controller, SSE3 and cheaper what's not to like? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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