Are you sure SSE3 where enabled?
Is there by any chance that the bios didnt enable them or even the aplication not using them because of wrong processor detection?

I think you could have done more tests, you talk about the 4 bank compatibility but didnt test it, or even made some benchs with the 4 banks with the new core vs the old one.

I was expecting lower power consuming than the older core, little disapointing since there is some good 8W difference. I wonder if Turion could go better with the Winchester core instead of the Venice.

Is the any chance in doing the test with a Via KT800Pro and/or a ULi 1689 (ASROCK 939A8X-M) since i think are the best chipset you can buy right now (budget).
nforce4 is too $$$ even if it is the best PCIe chipset for AMD, i still want to stick with my 9700 card.

AMD GO

Thanks for the in-depth look at these new chips...been waiting for awhile now for them to finally hit.

Speaking of which - has anyone actually seen anywhere with them available for order/pre-order yet?

Nice review, Ilya!

One question about DFI NF4, though... What BIOS have you used for Ocing tests? Also, you say you had issue with it running memory at 1T... Was it, that DFI did not run @ 1T at all or just in certain memory configuration that Venice was supposed to handle, like 2x256MB DDR400 1T? And once again, what BIOS was used at that time?

Thank you,

What's the die size?

On page 3 it says:
"Besides wider compatibility of the Venice’s memory controller, it also got noticeably faster. Among the tweaks implemented in Venice we should definitely point out enhanced hardware data prefetch and more write combining buffers (4 instead of 2).

All these improvements should help Venice based Athlon 64 processor to outperform their counterparts based on the older core revisions but working at the same clock frequency. And the performance gain will be more noticeable if there are four memory modules installed in the system."

Can you test this out? I would really like to see if there are any performance increases from using 4 single-sided DIMMS with the Venice core.

Also, besides being able to use 1T with 4 RAM slots installed, can they still work at the 2-2-2-5 settings? And can they be overclock beyond 200mhz?

Thanks

This new AMD CPU has the best performance/price ratio

this is sweet. another bang for the buck processor from AMD.

I'd like to know whether the Venice can work at lower voltage than the Winchester core, and whether the energy consumption at lowest possible voltage is lower than the consumption of the Winchester core.

Is it possible to supplement the review with some undervolting tests?

it's good news....

I have a question, i tougth the DFI lan party could only use DDR 3200 at 400mhz, just like it says in the specs,

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=1 3-136-152&depa=0

...I even asked in another forum and they told me that DDR 500mhz would not run on Athlon64 boards...

CAn the atlhon boards use DDR RAM beyhond 400mhz? It's the overclocking that enables their use?

DDR400/PC3200 is only the "default" setting on AMD 64 motherboards. DFI (and most other motherboards) will happily run a FSB much much higher than that as long as you adjust the BIOS settings correctly and have memory capable of the speeds - as a matter of fact OCZ just announced a new DFI specific line of ram designed specifically to run at DDR625 - the people on whatever forum you asked on were terribly terribly uninformed.

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can AMD run all visual basic,.net ,programs

I can find several sites that are now accepting preorders. I did a froogle on 'ada3200bpbox' to check actual prices.

cool.. im buying basically the same spec machine. so this has helped me a lot. thanks