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As AMD is still competiting with Intel, AMD released the Sempron processor a while ago as a replacement for the Duron. With this, AMD stopped shipments of Athlon XP's.
I am advising a girlfriend buying a new system (just mobo, cpu, cooler, ram and power supply). She wants to keep it low budget, as she is a student. Now, I would've got her a nice Athlon XP 2600+ on an Asus A7V8X-X mobo, just like I have right now. It'd be a 260 EUR upgade. As an Athlon 64 2800+ upgrade would cost 420 EUR, which is too much for her, I started looking at the new Semprons. Although I read a couple of reviews, I can't really figure out if the Sempron performs about as well as the Athlon XP. Does anyone know? What I did figure out is that the Sempron performs generally a lot better than Intell's Celleron.
I am advising a girlfriend buying a new system (just mobo, cpu, cooler, ram and power supply). She wants to keep it low budget, as she is a student. Now, I would've got her a nice Athlon XP 2600+ on an Asus A7V8X-X mobo, just like I have right now. It'd be a 260 EUR upgade. As an Athlon 64 2800+ upgrade would cost 420 EUR, which is too much for her, I started looking at the new Semprons. Although I read a couple of reviews, I can't really figure out if the Sempron performs about as well as the Athlon XP. Does anyone know? What I did figure out is that the Sempron performs generally a lot better than Intell's Celleron.
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KlangMeister
I had a Duron 1600 in my current board, O/C'ed to 2400. When I benched my Barton 2500 Mobile at the same clock speed, the scores were very, very close. The Barton was the clear winner, but the differences were academic. The 192kb L2 cache does not exact a substantial performance hit...unlike the Celeron. I would imagine the Sempron would be in line with the Duron's performance.
Anonymous
hmmmm duron and barton at nearly same speed ? ....
seems to be a fault ... since the athlon TB was quite much faster then duron and since the barton is a better TB ....
but to your question ...
the athlon XP got 256kb L2 cache
the barton got 512
the sempron is a barton with 1 half of the cache disabled ... so basically its a athlon XP again with some unused DIE
seems to be a fault ... since the athlon TB was quite much faster then duron and since the barton is a better TB ....
but to your question ...
the athlon XP got 256kb L2 cache
the barton got 512
the sempron is a barton with 1 half of the cache disabled ... so basically its a athlon XP again with some unused DIE
KlangMeister
I am sure you are aware that the Duron Applebred is just a T'bred with 64kb L2. I wish I had saved the scores for both of those processors.
Edit: Now I remember...the Duron was down in the multimedia portion of the Sisoft Sandra tests. In all other respects it was the same or nearly the same.
In the real world, the Sempron should be about the same as the XP, and it'll absolutely stomp a Celeron.
Edit: Now I remember...the Duron was down in the multimedia portion of the Sisoft Sandra tests. In all other respects it was the same or nearly the same.
In the real world, the Sempron should be about the same as the XP, and it'll absolutely stomp a Celeron.
Anonymous
hmmm k
I ment the onld core
and yes cache makes quite a small difference ... its there but its small ...
looking at 3800+ and FX-53 the 512kb make 300€ in diff hell for these 300 you spend a new GPU and pooooooooooof :D
I ment the onld core
and yes cache makes quite a small difference ... its there but its small ...
looking at 3800+ and FX-53 the 512kb make 300€ in diff hell for these 300 you spend a new GPU and pooooooooooof :D
XIII
Athlon Xp is better then Sempron. If you really force to get celeron because of budget, get the sempron or Athlon XP instead.
Edit:
If i am not mistaken (read on somewhere) sempron 3000 can only compareable with athlon 2600+ which means it is not the superior of Athlon XP. Cache make office tool or program run better but not gaming.
Edit:
If i am not mistaken (read on somewhere) sempron 3000 can only compareable with athlon 2600+ which means it is not the superior of Athlon XP. Cache make office tool or program run better but not gaming.
Anonymous
I have red seomthing else ... the sempro should be exactly the same as the Athlon XP on same clock speed ... who know what they have done to the rating ?
Anonymous
ah I see ... AMD messed up the rating system ....
XP2200 sempron = 1.5GHz
XP2200 Tbred = 1.8 GHz
XP2200 sempron = 1.5GHz
XP2200 Tbred = 1.8 GHz
