AMD...Newcastle or Winchester

[Eddie Haskell]

I plan on buying an AMD CPU (Athlon 64, 3200+ or 3500+, New. or Win.) and the only difference I see in these aside from the Core name is the process: 0.13 Micron VS 90Nm. I don't really know what these mean but have read where the Win. process is superior to the New. process.
Can someone shed some light on this?

 

[Praetor]

Newcastle is D-revision, Winchester is E-rev (smaller process = less power useage, less heat etc = better). I dunno but i think the F-revs are classified as Whinchesters as well

 

[Eddie Haskell]

So the Winchester process is smaller, ie; better? The FX series seem to be Hammer cores

 

[Praetor]

Yes winchester is smaller.
FX is something else altogether.

 

[robina_80]

what are FX's then?!?

 

[Cromewell]

I think the FX core is the ClawHammer, but not bothing to look it up I could be wrong