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so you cannot change the multiplier on the 32 and 3500?

If that is the case, is upping the voltage the only way to OC it?
 
You raise the FSB to overclock, but this requires good ram, mobo and power supply.

And a 3200+ is not guarnteed to run at 3500+ speeds, it's just likely.

All the CPU's start off the same (for the core) Than they get tested at a speed and if it passes, it will say lets go into the 3500+ bin. If another CPU doesnt pass 3500+ speeds, it goes into the 3200+ bin.

But since AMD owns soo much, all their CPU's go into the 3500+ bin for the main part, so they do a little switch and put them in the 3200+ bin, same for intel (on a lesser scale)

And because AMD still owns, you can overclock it even higher than a 3500+
 
Because the 3500 and the 3200 and the FX-55 all use the exact same core.
Just to clarify, they do not use the same core.

Athlon 64:
Newcastle
Winchester
Venice

Athlon 64 FX:
Clawhammer
Sledgehammer
San Diego

Cache size is again quite clever marketing and is an attempt to compensate for lower clock frequencies. Having larger cache size is somewhat important, but generally speaking, especially the hyoertransport bus on the CPU, clock speed is more important.
 
well both are good. FX-55 is still a monster in terms of performance, but the venice's and san diegos are pretty damn good especially with OC'ing and their SSE3 instructions.

If a lot of programs started using SSE3 instructions then obviously a venice or san diego core would come out on top
 
The Athlon FX processors are the top end AMD processors.

The Athlon 64 FX processors were originally intended for servers, but migrated to desktop use and inherited a bit of unique architechture. The Athlon 64 FX-55 is the faster processor on the market right now. Infact, AMD is shifting the Athlon 64 series to the Athlon 64 X2, or dual core processors, but are leaving the FX series as powerful single threaded processors because they're simply the best of the best.

Just for even more clarity, I should mention a few things about the cores:

The Clawhammer and Sledgehammer cores found in the FX processors are basically Newcastle cores with a larger 1MB cache. Also, the older Athlon 64s on socket 754 were also Clawhammer and Sledgehammer.

The San Diego and Venice cores are basically the same thing, the San Diego simply has a larger cache and will be found in Athlon 64 processors such as the 3400+, 3700+ and 4000+.
 
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