Athlon 64 2800+ Claw vs. 3000+ Venice

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Lieutenant Dan

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There's a $26 difference between these two processors at Newegg.
Does this seem like an instance where the extra $26 is worth it?

Cache is the same, clock is the same.
Bus on the Venice is 200mhz faster and the it also supports SSE3.

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Venice is what I would get. Are you looking for overclocking abilities? Because in general that's what the Venice is known for. Make sure your motherboard can take the Venice (I assume you are talking about the 3500+ Venice and the 3500+ Claw?).

The Venice is also 90nm, and the clawhammer is 0.13nm, so the Venice has an advantage there i think. I'm thinking it runs cooler than the Claw as well, but not 100% sure.
 
4W4K3 said:
Venice is what I would get. Are you looking for overclocking abilities? Because in general that's what the Venice is known for. Make sure your motherboard can take the Venice (I assume you are talking about the 3500+ Venice and the 3500+ Claw?).

The Venice is also 90nm, and the clawhammer is 0.13nm, so the Venice has an advantage there i think. I'm thinking it runs cooler than the Claw as well, but not 100% sure.
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I was gonna get the DFI LANPARTY UT nF4 Ultra-D.
 
Go with the 3000+ Venice. I built my bothers comp with one of these in it and it runs vary cool 28 idle I don't no what it runs on a full load. That temp is with the stock HSF and the ordinal thermal compound AMD placed on the HSF.
 
Awesome guys, exactly the answers I was looking for.
I've been out of the loop w/ PCs for a while. The last one I built was an XP2200 before SATA even really kicked off and have no clue about PCI-E. A lot has changed.
 
Yes the Venice does indeed have everything better than the 2800-Clawhammer ... note that for the DFI board, you're gonna wanna flash the BIOS before really using the system
 
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