I am getting the abit av 8 motherboard for my new system . I am looking into the processors now . I would like to know . What is the diffrence in the winchester and newcastle core processors . Someone told me that the winchester core 3500 runs a bit cooler and thats about it . I do plan on doing some overclocking . And I am looking at getting the Anthlon 64 3500 .I know there is a price diffrence between them . Someone please enlighten me here .

The difference is that the winchester is produced in the new 90nm technology while the newcastle is still build in 130nm. That makes the winchester smaller, it needs less power and that all makes it quite a bit cooler. And it also gives you more potential for OCing. So get the winchester if you want to OC! I have a winchester 3000+ and can OC it to 2700MHz which (according to a test I read) makes it faster than a Pentium4 3,46GHz EE and a FX55! They also wrote the higher models haven't been that good at OCing but they have not wrote more about that. On the other hand it's not that unusual as the 3000+ is the slowest version so it has the highest potential for OCing! I can't say if you can get the 3500+ to 2700MHz or even higher but not every 3000+ will reach 2700MHz. I had another 3000+ with a MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum before (the board they did the above tests with) and got it to 2565MHz max.! So good luck with your new winchester!

Do you or anyone else here know where I may can read up on this subject . I have googled it but really am not comong up with anything .

I have a msi k8n neo2 plat and a 3000+winchester runs 2.8 gig 100% stable 35c 1.4v idle 42c 1.45v after running prime 95 for 24 hours can boot at 2.9 gig but not stable for long at all even at 1.6v