Athlon 64: 3700 San Diego vs 3800 Venice

[Craig]

As the title suggests - What is the faster out of the 3700 San Diego and the 3800 Venice?

Regards,

Craig

[philyau]

SD as it has 1mb L2 cache.

phil

[ja3h]

Yeah agree with phil

3700 runs at 2.2 right?
3800 runs at 2.4?

Sure you can overclock the 3700 to 2.4 at least!! save you a fair bit which you can put towards some good ram!

[taqie]

and not to forget you can even challenge FX 55 if you get the right combination of RAM and mobo with your amd64 3700..can easily achieve 2.6/2.7...it is a san diego core...

[Craig]

What mobo and ram would you suggest?

I have been looking at the MSI K8N SLi Platinum (For future upgrades) or the MSI Neo4 Platinum.

I have some Crucial Ballistix 3200 ram here - will that be sufficient ram wise?

[kempez]

Crucial Ballistix should be good stuff. I think it has Micron chips

Get a DFI Ultra-D for overclocking. You could get it up to around 2.7GHz easy