3800+ Venice Screenies (Post #1 = FAQ)

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FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)



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Q: What are the major components being used in the system you are testing this CPU in?
A: A64 3800+ Venice + AMD FX-55 HSF
MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum (Bios 1.41mod)
G.Skill 4400LE (2x256MB)
Antec EPS12v True 550 (modded 3.3V, 5.0V, and 12V rails)

Q: When can we expect to see this CPU in retail channels?
A: You can expect to buy these through retail channels starting first week of April.



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Q: What are the major components being used in the system you are testing this CPU in?
A: A64 3800+ Venice + Mach 2
MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum (Bios 1.41mod)
G.Skill 4400LE (2x256MB)
Antec EPS12v True 550 (modded 3.3V, 5.0V, and 12V rails)

Q: What are your loaded and unloaded temperatures?
A: -29C Idle and -15C Load. Measurements were taken from a thermocouple attached to the side of the IHS of the 3800+.

Q: How does the 3800+ Venice compare with an FX-55?
A: FX-55 (11x291MHz) vs. 3800+ (11x290MHz)

Q: Do you have any results that would give us an idea of how SSE3 affects performance in applications that are capable of taking advantage of SSE3?
A: SSE3 performance screenshots.

Q: Have you noticed any peculiarities with regard to the behavior of the 3800+ Venice?
A: This cpu, for some reason, doesn't like its default multiplier (12x) at higher frequencies. It requires much more voltage at 12x to run any kind of benchmark. On the other hand, 11x seems to be much more of a "sweet spot" @ 3.0Ghz and beyond for this chip. It seems to run smoother and with less heat and vcore than both 12x and 10x.

Q: What is the default VCORE for the 3800+ Venice?
A: 1.4V.

Q: What is the highest frequency you have run 3DMark2001 SE at?
A: Approximately 3100MHz.

Q: Are you able to run Prime95?
A: I tried to run P95 blend @ 3.2Ghz, but it could only get to about 1.5 hours and then returned an error.

Q: What is the highest frequency you have used to successfully complete SuperPi 1M?
A: 3306.1MHz (12x275.5MHz).

Q: What is the highest frequency you have realized with the 3800+ Venice (suicide screenshot)?
A: 3419.2MHz (11x310.8MHz) @ 1.664V.



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I thought that I'd start a new thread for some screenshots of the 3800+ Venice. The original thread can be found here:

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...ad.php?t=56192

Note that you're not going to find any 3dmark benches here since I own an old 9800Pro Agp card (yeah, yeah - I was waiting to switch to pci-express). Also, all of the benchmarks were done either with default settings or with very minor tweaks. Therefore they are meant just to give you an idea of what to expect/not expect from the new Venice cores.

OK, here's the system's vital statistics:

Stock FX55 HSF aircooled
A64 3800+ Venice- .09, SSE3, etc.
Msi K8n Neo2- Bios 1.41mod
G.Skill 2x256 4400LE
Antec EPS12v True 550 - Modded 3.3V, 5.0V, & 12V rails

Here is the default clock (Don't mind what CBID says, I realize now that it spits out a bunch of garbage when it doesn't recognize the core): 12x200