It costs about £100 to buy an Athlon64 3000+ Venice (Venice being the newer 90nm process with SSE3 & On-Silicon-Insulator technology, as opposed to the older Winchester 90nm process used in the Winchester core or the even older 130nm Newcastle core).
The A64 3000+ Venice runs at 1.8GHz on air cooling.
The A64 3000+ Venice also runs at 2.8GHz on air cooling.
The difference? Apart from 1GHz extra clock speed is the fact that the former is the stock speed and the latter is the overclocked speed. The 3000+ a fast-ish Venice, but you will recall that later this year all the AMD A64s are going to migrate to the 90nm process, so the current A64 Venice *has* to be good enough to scale up and run very much faster - and it does :D
Hexus tweaked the BIOS and you can read all about the current overclocking favourite here (http://www.hexus.net/content/reviews/review.php?dXJsX3Jldmlld19JRD0xMjU1).
Enjoy!
TL.
Edited for incorrect url and some confusion over core names on my part- it's Friday afternoon. give me a break!
Scan are doing it for £88 on "Today Only (http://www.scan.co.uk/todayonly/)" scroll down to section 6 :blink:
Normal info and price is £96 look here (http://www.scan.co.uk/products/productinfo.asp?WebProductID=221571)
QuoteOriginally posted by TeaLeaf@Jun 3 2005, 05:10 PM
Venice being the newer 90nm process with SSE3 & On-Silicon-Insulator technology
:learn:
Not to be a know-it-all git, but this is too far up my alley to be ignored. Actually it's Silicon-On-Insulator (SOI) and the reason for it is to eliminate parasitics when reducing feature size. The trick is using a non-conductive substrate as opposed to regular silicon wafers.
I hope you have enjoyed this lecture on semiconductor devices. We will take a short brake and next time we will discuss some methods of fabrication...
QuoteOriginally posted by Cain@Jun 3 2005, 07:12 PM
I hope you have enjoyed this lecture on semiconductor devices. We will take a short brake and next time we will discuss some methods of fabrication...[post=85333]Quoted post[/post]
No. The next lecture will be spelling ;)
What's an alley? :whistle: :D
QuoteOriginally posted by BlueBall@Jun 3 2005, 11:32 PM
No. The next lecture will be spelling ;)
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:blush:
/crawls back under rock making angry remarks about know-it-all gits
QuoteOriginally posted by Cain@Jun 4 2005, 10:06 AM
:blush:
/crawls back under rock making angry remarks about know-it-all gits
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lol. never mind it looks like a nice rock :)
QuoteOriginally posted by Dingo@Jun 4 2005, 01:41 AM
What's an alley? :whistle: :D
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she works in my office making tea etc.