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New "E4" Stepping Venice

Post by wundi » Tue Nov 29, 2005 7:37 am

I figured there aren't nearly enough many threads about Venice cores in this forum.. ;)

Athlon 64 3000+ EOL'ed, New 3200+ and 3500+ E4 Stepping @ AnandTech

It seems that there's now 3 Venice variants on the market:
E3 aka. BP
E6 aka. BW
E4 aka. CG

I wonder how the E4 core will perform in terms of heat production and OC'ability..

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Post by ~El~Jefe~ » Tue Nov 29, 2005 8:09 pm

supposedly e4 makes it have a better mem controller. who knows about oc'ing. i would gather it is best besides opteron.

might as well get an opteron 170 or 165 for oc'ing though i feel.

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Post by =assassin= » Fri Dec 02, 2005 5:12 am

There's something not quite right about these 'E4's and I don't trust Anandtech's article fully - technically, the only E4 processors were processors like San Diego etc with 1MB cache, or dual-core processors. E4 is also a stepping back on E6 - so are AMD simply trying to sell what would have been defective cores?? There's nothing I can find 'new' about them at all. Also, it doesn't make me feel comfortable with them using CG in the naming - surely that's confusing people with the 130nm cores - or is that another trick AMD is hoping people will fall for (so they can get trid of some old stock).

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Post by Ryan Norton » Thu Dec 08, 2005 3:56 pm

This has been discussed before, but there seem to be three steppings of Venice 3500+ AMD64 CPU:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductLi ... t=Property

BPBOX The one with 190 feedbacks is, I assume, the E3. That's what I have.
CGBOX Then there's the $202 E4 (I *think*) with no feedback yet.
BWBOX Finally, there's a $225 with only a few responses. E6..?

AMD, a little freaking clarity please!

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