Winchester or Venice

[Wayniac]

For an AMD 3000+ and 3500+ which core (winchester or venice) is better for gaming?

 

[no_Wedge]

well, i have heard venice overclock and stay cool better, but that might be because no one has ever tried winch

 

[GuitarFreak1857]

venice hands down.

 

[Flanker]

Venice. Runs cooler (just not in my unfortunate case), guzzels less power, and overclocks better. Only thing better is the San Diego and thats only available for 3700+

 

[waynejkruse10]

Venice is a newer, better core. Venice is 90nm, Winchester is 130nm. This means Venice is cooler and a better overclocker and has SSE3.

 

[Wayniac]

Just wondering because the Winchester is more expensive on zipzoomfly.

 

[Flanker]

Yea, because they don't make em anymore. If you want a winchester, there has to be a reason (you're a collector for example) so they will charge you higher because of the limited stock they have.

 

[Vampire_Slayer]

Who actually collects processers? Besides my dad who has an amazingly old pentium pro along with some others and a stack of hard drive discs. Well to answer your question, Venice is 90nm and Winnie is 120nm. Therefore Venice is a new and more efficient technology and damn it can overclock like crazy from what I heard before it came out. 3200+ OC to 3g on stock cooling according to the thingy, dunno if you can actually get it that high by those means though.