ATHLON 64 REVISION E- worth waiting for?

[michaels39]

Are the new AMD 64 Revision E cpu's worth waiting for? I'm ready for a new system,what is the end benefit of the new instruction sets to users?

[sechs]

Depends upon what you do. In general, I'd so it's not worth it.

You can always upgrade later.

[michaels39]

The system will be primarily for gaming and the internet.

[sechs]

The big deal with Rev. E CPUs is addition of SSE3. There are few games and virtually no web browsers which take advantage of these additional instructions.

If I were you, I'd go with what is cheap now.

[Reather]

I'd wait, because you can either get the Rev. E (also known as Venice) or get a Winchester at a really good price. In addition, Venice will really overclock well.

[michaels39]

I think I will wait,it's only a couple of weeks before they're available where I plan to have my system built,and the price is only about $20.00 more than the current models.

[johnny8196]

Overclocking to 3.0 ghz isn't happening with the Venice like everyone thought.

People are lucky if the get 2.7 ghz so winny is still ok.

[Reather]

With what CPU? Me, I'm only going to get a 3000+ and push it to 2.65GHz, or the speed of the 3500+(with 50 more MHz).

[michaels39]

I'm going to a 4000+,never been comfortable trying overclocking,so that's not much of a factor.

[johnny8196]

Originally posted by Reather
With what CPU? Me, I'm only going to get a 3000+ and push it to 2.65GHz, or the speed of the 3500+(with 50 more MHz).

The 3000+ is clocked at 1.8 Ghz so 2.65 Ghz would be a huge overclock. The 3500+ is clocked at only 2.2Ghz.

So 2.65 Ghz x 1.6 = 4200+ basically looking at a 4200+ or 4.2 Ghz in Intels world.

4200+ would rock!!!