On 15 Dec 2005, at 13:42:030, Carroll Kong wrote:
I think the reason I picked the Venice over the Clawhammer was the
smaller
die so it is even cooler? I'm not sure if the Clawhammer supports
the "cool
and steady" daemon that AMD has. Basically it's a daemon that runs
in the
background to keep the CPU cool by detecting idle time and lowering
the
power. I usually hate running such things but it seems to work
great under
Windows 2000.
Venice is 90nm, Clawhammer is 130nm,
So they're cooler running for a start.
Both support Cool'n'Quiet, but the Venice has a tweaked memory
controller (can run four dimms at 1T command rate, Clawhammer/
newcastle/winchester cannot), few minor core tweaks, and SSE3
support, which all A64s prior to Venice lack. (the san diego and
newer sister cores to Venice have SSE3 as well of course, being that
they're based on the same stepping.)
-_-_
James Boswell
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