A64 Venice 3800+ vs A64 San Deigo 4000+ Socket 939

[Nealoc187]

Is there any reason to purchase a Venice A64 3800+ processor over a San Diego 4000+ processor assuming there is virtually no price difference ($56 for Venice 3800+ or $60 for San Diego 4000+). Both would be brand new and would be installed on an ASRock Dual SATA-II mobo (because it has both PCI-e and AGP slots and IDE and uses my 184 pin ram). There is also the option of a Venice 3400+ at $40 but the only reason I can see going with that is if the 3400+ is easily overclockable to just as high a speed as the other two more expensive processors are.

I'd be doing a mild to moderate overclock on air cooling w/ existing components such as my 2GB Corsair, ATi X850XT AGP card, Silverstone Zeus 550W, two IDE (PATA) Hard drives, etc.

 

[Opteron 1100]

L2 is 1 mb for the 4000 + also you will get awesome clock speed out of the 4000
I have one running at 3.0 and it didn't take much to get there

 

[Wayward_Son]

I vote for the 4000+.

 

[gocartman2]

well i hope its just the enthusiast in you, because dual cores are hands down the ones to pick up right now
but the 4000's are some great chips to handle voltage, if they were like 30-40 id buy a couple just to oc the hell out of
i had a venice 3200+ and it would rarely boot at 2.85

 

[ps2cho]

The performance on the 4000+ will beat the 3800+ for any application. The 4000+ should also overclock pretty well too. It's a no brainer

 

[AngelfireUk83]

I voted for the 4000+ primary cause I have one running right now and I only bought it myself about 1 month ago and I love it.

 

[netmask]

L2 is 1 mb for the 4000 +

I think 4000+ is a better choice.

 

[Nealoc187]

OK thanks guys, I hadn't heard of san diegos because I'm new in the game but after I posted this up I did a bunch of reading and discovered that they were even better than the venice.

The reason I'm asking about these chips is because I'm not willing to spend a few hundred on a PC right now, just upgrading from my current proc and mobo (2500+ barton and a7n8x).

 

[Goonda]

The newer SD's seem to clock rather nicely.

 

[swebarb]

Neither, get a X2 instead they are chea like hell now and so much better.

 

[Tserrof]

Out of the choices I agree with the 4000+ notion. But yes, perhaps an AM2 X2 would be a more worthy investment. It's your money though. Maybe the OP already has the ASRock mobo and is just looking for a proc to complete the rig. Enjoy the system.

 

[White_Pawn]

3800+ X2 for s939, dual-core is the way to go.

if you want new system, those E2140 are real nice.