Sign in with Sign up | Sign in Your question  So whats the point
to the 90nms??  Last response: in CPUs  Im going skt 939 soon
and out of curiousity whats the benefit to the winchesters? At
200mhz slower than the clawhammers they have no extra cache to
make up for it. Should I spend more and get the newcastle 3500?
Or is the cheaper 2.0ghz winchester 3200 capable of anything?
More about : whats point 90nms  90nm Draws less Power, and seems
to be a great choice for overclocking.  Winchester is basically
the Newcastle core, with a few minor tweaks to better facilitate
the die shrink.  I'm not sure what you mean about '200Mhz slower
than the clawhammers'... Generally speaking a
Newcastle/Winchester will be ~200Mhz <i>faster</i> than a
Clawhammer with the same rating (e.g. 3200+ is available as a
2Ghz clawhammer <i>or</i> a 2.2Ghz Newcastle).  They adjust the
PR rating to (in theory) reflect the performance increase from
the additional cache. However most of the time the 2.2Ghz/512Kb
part will beat the 2Ghz/1Mb