Any reason to upgrade from a winchester?

Quailane

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I just want to talk my brother out of buying a Venice for absolutely NO reason. Right now he runs a Winchester 3000+ at 2.7Ghz stable all day and in everything. The heatsink WILL burn you though, lol. He wants to buy a 3000+ venice, but I think nothing can be gained from that. Am I right? He is running an extreme overclocked 9800pro that I did for him and a gig of ram at 270Mhz. Won't this be a complete waste of money? I know everyone else upgraded from their crappy winchesters, but this one isn't so.

 

WingsofGOD

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I'd put the money elsewhere, like in water cooling if it is that hot..

 

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so would i.. youre not going to see much (if any) performance increase with the venice over a similarly clocked winny

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well i think that you should keep that winnie, no real good difference for that venice, just get a good heatsink or a "water cooling kit" as of what wings of god has said

 

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If you did wish to get a Venice then might as well get a 3200 to get the 10x multi and possibly higher clocks.

 

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I would prefer the winny actually. Like the other guys said, take the money and put it into something else.

 

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Yeah, nobody ever believes that the winnie is getting so hot, but how many have it that high on the retail sink?

Anyway, I convinced him to buy a new wireless network instead. (cheaper too)

 

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For the same money, he could build a decent watercooling rig and run with less noise while protecting that excellent Winchester from melting down. He'd then have a good cooling setup for the next upgrade, probably to an AMD dual-core, which would need moderately serious cooling to get a good overclock. Also, if his current CPU is running that hot, he might be able to go even higher once it has decent cooling. I think his chances of getting to 2.9 with the current chip on water are as good or better than with a Venice on the stock heatsink.

 

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Quailane said:

I just want to talk my brother out of buying a Venice for absolutely NO reason. Right now he runs a Winchester 3000+ at 2.7Ghz stable all day and in everything. The heatsink WILL burn you though, lol. He wants to buy a 3000+ venice, but I think nothing can be gained from that. Am I right? He is running an extreme overclocked 9800pro that I did for him and a gig of ram at 270Mhz. Won't this be a complete waste of money? I know everyone else upgraded from their crappy winchesters, but this one isn't so.

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talk him out of it. if he's already getting 2.7 ! with the slim chance he will hit 2.8-2.9 with a venice isn't worth it imo. i see very little dif from when i ran 2.7 to my current 2.9

 

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Some Venice CPUs can't hit anything over 2.7GHz so I wouldn't bother getting one seeing as the CPU is so fast as is. Watercooling may allow for an even higher overclock as from the sounds of it your bro's CPU is a very good chip.