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Posted: **Sat Aug 13, 2005 11:41 am**

Between the ClawHammer and the Venice? Besides $40 on the same speed. Is it worth the $40 on a 3500+?

Posted: **Sat Aug 13, 2005 12:13 pm**

I think the clawhammers are Socket 754 and the Venice is Socket 939

***EDIT***

Just double checked and I'm right.. If you want future proof and Dual Core availability in the future, get the Venice..

eGo

Posted: **Sun Aug 14, 2005 12:55 am**

when I search CPU on newegg and sort by socket 939 I get both?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6819103514

Posted: **Sun Aug 14, 2005 10:33 am**

Hmmm.. You're right..

With these findings, I'm not 100% sure on the difference other than the Venice Core is newer than the clawhammer and supposed to be "The OC" chip.. Sorry for that bit of misinfo up there..

eGo

Posted: **Sun Aug 14, 2005 12:06 pm**

Venice core runs cooler, lower power consumption and it's reputed to be very overclockable.

Posted: **Sun Aug 14, 2005 3:46 pm**

More "overclock" friendly than the Winchester?

Posted: **Sun Aug 14, 2005 5:50 pm**

Supposedly. Everyone at the AMD Tech Tour was talking about that. They were hoping that the mobo/CPU combos came with Venice core CPUs (they did) because they were more overclockable.

Posted: **Sun Aug 14, 2005 6:18 pm**

Yah, I have a 3200+ Winnie and I've gotten it to 225mhz stable on the FSB with Corsair XMS 3200.. I'd like to save up some more money and get my hands on some PC4000 and see what it can do..

eGo

Posted: **Wed Sep 21, 2005 5:34 pm**

What mobo are you using??? I set my fsb to 270 and have no instability issues. Are you setting a "max mem clock" in your bios? 270fsb with "max mem clock" of 333=2.43ghz with mem running at 222mhz (asus a8n mobo). Corsair xms1024c2pt mem.

Posted: **Wed Sep 21, 2005 10:57 pm**

I'm using an MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum. I haven't dove into it to test all the settings.. It's fast enough as it is, but I might mess with it some later..

eGo

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