amd processors (cant tell the difference)

[MrZucchiniHead]

icant tell what the better one is.

athlon 64 3200+ venice (cheaper 152$)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819103535

Athlon 64 3200+ winchester (more expensive 190$)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819103502

the only difference that i find is that the venice has MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, 3DNOW! Professional and the winchester is missing SSE3.
PLease help

 

[Trifid]

They stupidly put the price up on the Winchester, even thoiugh its older. The Venice is the better core. It also has the advantage of a better memory controller, which can handle 4 sticks of ram at 400mhz. (I have to have them at 333 mhz.)

 

[MrZucchiniHead]

thanx now i can save money instaed of buying a 3700+ sen deigo for 200+$ ill just overclock the venive.

 

[Trifid]

If you have the money, then a San Diego has 1mb cache, where as the Venice doesn't.

 

[MrZucchiniHead]

well i have the money but then ill have none left and i still want to buy a new mp3 player (creative zen micro)

 

[PZEROFGH]

plus you might not even get to OC the venice very far...

 

[FghtinIrshNvrDi]

Well, I bought my venice in september, and it overclocked okay. I mean, my motherboard only allows it to go to 2250mhz, but it's there, stable, all the time with stock cooling. It's really about how much you want to spend. If I had the cash I would have gotten the 3700.

Ryan

 

[Flanker]

Most Athlon 64 3200+ Venices are maxing out at 2.6GHz these days.

Most Athlon 64 3700+ San Diegos are maxing out at 2.8 or 3.0GHz.

 

[MrZucchiniHead]

liike i said i have the dough but then i would have to use my old graphix (GeForce Fx5700) and would'nt be able to buy my creative zen micro.

 

[PP Mguire]

What games are you thinking about playing?