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TC1

TC1

TC1

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What is the difference between the AMD 'Venice' and 'Manchester' chips? Seen a cheap:

AMD (MANCHESTER) Athlon 64 3500+ Socket 939 2.2GHz 512kb Retail Boxed Processor

Only need a bog standard one for a friend. He has a socket 939 Motherboard.

Will the above be ok?
 
Small possibility he needs a BIOS update, had problems with boards not booting with Winchester or Venice chips without a BIOS update as their BIOSes were fairly old.
 
TC1 said:
So, no such chip as a 'Manchester one'?
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Who said that? I just meant that he might need a BIOS update to get it booting, of course you need an older core to do that, the Manchester is newer than the Newcastle, Winchester and Venice so theres a small possibility depending on the board BIOS that it may not boot the chip. Yes theres a 3500+ Manchester chip.
 
Manchesters are dual core 512KB cache (each core).

I believe some of them did appear as single core chips, presumably becuase one of the cores was faulty from manufacter.

Jokester
 
Jokester said:
Manchesters are dual core 512KB cache (each core).

I believe some of them did appear as single core chips, presumably becuase one of the cores was faulty from manufacter.

Jokester
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Seems far fetched.
 
I have the chance of swapping my venice 3500 for a Manchester 3500. What are the differences? Is one better than the other?
 
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