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Venice vs San Diego

Badgerpoo

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What are the real world differences between the two?

Venice 3500+ 512k L2 2.2GHz (clocked to 2.5GHz?)

San Diego 3700+ 1MB L2 2.2GHz (clocked to 2.7GHz?)

I would run it clocked obviously. In brackets are what I would guess them to clock to typically on standard cooler.
 
The extra 512k cache of the Sandy is supposed to equal about 200mhz increase in real-world speed.

Just for the record, I've got my Sandy 3700+ E4 at 2.8Ghz at stock volts and stock cooling.

Jon
 
Get the 3700+ thats on offer this week. If youre thinking of clocking it then id recommend a better cooler, like the freezer64 pro
 
I brought my 3700+ with me when I moved from the states...right now it's going through customs but it will be for sale once it's arrived. It's a good stepping....got it to 2.9 stable on 1.525 vcore....but ran it at 2.75ghz at 1.475 vcore daily on a zalman CNPS9500

But yeah I suggest getting it over the venice.
 
taktmobiles said:
Got my 3700+ running at 2.8 as my sig nature show`s.

once i get a freezer pro i`ll be pushing it up further
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Curious why you have your HTT at 3x? It really should be kept around 1000
 
gurusan said:
Curious why you have your HTT at 3x? It really should be kept around 1000
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Anywhere around 800-1000 is fine. Doesn't really affect performance that much.

What you dont want it having it over 1000 as it can cause stability problems. I know its 256*4 = 1024 versus 256*3 = 768. Doesn't make much odds really.

Jon
 
GeForce said:
Anywhere around 800-1000 is fine. Doesn't really affect performance that much.

What you dont want it having it over 1000 as it can cause stability problems. I know its 256*4 = 1024 versus 256*3 = 768. Doesn't make much odds really.

Jon
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While it's true that it doesn't matter what the multiplier is (you can have it as low as 2x with the FSB@200mhz and still see no performance drops), it's also not neccesarily true that going over it causes instability.

When pushing my overclock i got to the no boot stage. Did 3 power on/offs to reload and went in and changed my settings again. I then reset defaults, then overclocked again. I was running 247Mhz with 5x mulitplier because i forgot to set the multiplier, and there was no issues, even though HT was running at 1235Mhz.

Other people have found the same. It doesn't neccesarily cause issues above 1000Mhz.
 
gurusan said:
Curious why you have your HTT at 3x? It really should be kept around 1000
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Answer As Geforce has said,

its down as 3x as i ain`t finished pushing it yet , the more i up the fsb the more its gonna head towards the 1000 mark
 
gurusan said:
I brought my 3700+ with me when I moved from the states...right now it's going through customs but it will be for sale once it's arrived. It's a good stepping....got it to 2.9 stable on 1.525 vcore....but ran it at 2.75ghz at 1.475 vcore daily on a zalman CNPS9500

But yeah I suggest getting it over the venice.
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thats quite high voltage for those clocks :confused:
 
It's not that high. Anything under 1.5vcore is acceptable for me.

These are all 24 hour prime stable BTW
 
same voltage as my 3200+ venice currently clicking along at 2.75Ghz with zalman CNPS9500 sitting ontop of it, good clockers these venice'
 
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