OC Winchester 3500+ 939?

[NateTron2thou]

I did a search and it seems everyone is saving money going with the 3000+ and getting some great speeds out of it with not alot of cooling. I haven't seen any posts on the 3500+ Winchester however.I'm planning on water cooling and I want to get the highest speed possible. Even if that means buying the 3500+ starting at 2.2 GHz and going from there. Only difference I have seen is I think the 3500+ runs at 1.4V. What do you guys think I should go with to get maximum speed? My goal is to hit 3.0Ghz or more stable . I will also be using atleast pc4000 mem.

 

[CaPtAiN_InSaNo]

That's a pretty high goal, i would say its a draw. If you oced both without decreasing the FSB the 3500 would obviously oc higher because the bus would not be stressed as much since the chip starts out higher, but you can lower the FSB/HT on the 939's so the 3000 would then be able to cope with the stress. So in theory they would both OC about the same. But this is pure theory, in reality I would think the 3500 would reach higher speeds because the CPU starts out higher, but then again on anandtech both the 3500 and 3000 maxed out at 2.6, maybe that is just the limit of this version of the 90nm cores(Winchester). So theory and realworld tests support eachother. Maybe you should look at more tests and see what the general consensus is. AMD will be working on the new cores to get higher speeds just like they have in the past. So there is no real deffinate answer, I would say go with what your budget lets you, if you want to spend as little as possible, I don't think you can go wrong with the 3000, if you think the 3500 will fare better then go with that. Hope this helps.

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[NateTron2thou]

good point. I think i will go with the 3000+ and see if i can get anymore out of it with water cooling than anandtech did.