3700 sandiego or 4000 clawhammer

[Hefemeister]

ok looking for some opinions. Price is not a consideration because I have both chips. Would you use a 3700+ san diego of a 4000+ clawhammer. It seems to me the major difference is sse3 support and the clawhameer runs a 1.5v versus 1.4v. I have an after market heatsink so heat is not aproblem. At this point I have no plans to OC. benchmarks run 1 to 2% faster on the 4000+.
Thanks for the input.

 

[Spartan]

4000+ just cuz of the 200Mhz boost if u dont plan on OCing, too bad u dont have the 4000 san diego core instead

 

[SHAWN]

Doesnt the 3700 have 1mb cache and the 4000 has 512? I would go with the 3700. Overclock it 200mhz to 4000 speeds if it makes you happy and save the money and get the 512 more cache.

 

[Spartan]

he says he doesnt want to OC

 

[Static_11]

or 3700 opteron

 

[RockyZ]

Why wouldn't you want to OC, just a question, overclocking about 200mhz is pretty safe and if you have all your settings right you probably won't notice much temperature difference with AS5 and stock heatsink.

 

[Spartan]

i have no idea, i would definitely reccomend it

 

[Hefemeister]

yeah i wish i had the 4000 san diego. both cores have 1mb cache. Dont need to OC right now cause the system runs eveything just fine. I agree 200mhz is pretty low. In the future I most likely will speed it up. thanks for the imput. I think I will stay with the 4000+ and not put the 3700+ back in. btw way I got it for free and thought it was the san diego. was a little dissapointed when I ran cpu-z on it.

 

[003]

dude, use the 3700+. just oc it 200mhz, which you can do EASILY on stock cooling. Stock cooling for my 3700+sd got me to 2.7GHz. Aftermarket cooling got me to 2.75 GHz

 

[dhw200]

3700 San Diego all the way. The San Diego is a beast at OCing, and San Diego > Clawhammer any day anway