[Scottish] Sempron v Athlon - or Celeron?

[Graeme Boyd]

Hi Neil,

Have a read at:

http://www6.tomshardware.com/cpu/20040728/index.html

To summarise, the Sempron == Athlon XP except for the Sempron 3100+ 
which is available for socket 754 motherboards.  The 3100+ is basically 
a 32bit only Athlon 64.  Both look to be usefully faster and more power 
efficient than the Celeron.

Between the Athlon and the Sempron I'd go for the Sempron 2500+.

Regards,

Graeme

On 30 Oct 2004, at 11:16, neil sinclair wrote:

> Hi guys -
>
> It's me again, asking hardware questions!
>
> I'm about to replace an Athlon 1.4, and the motherboard which goes 
> with it.
>
> I need to know if the Sempron is (as I sceptically suspect) more a 
> marketing
> move forward in the field of processor design than an improvement over 
> the
> Duron.
>
> Does anyone have a take on this?
>
> Right now it seems to be difficult to get Athlons at the low end - 
> they are
> simply out of stock. So my choice is between an Athlon XP 2200+ (266 
> FSB) and
> a Sempron 2500 (333 FSB). Both have 256K cache.
>
> I'm proposing an Asus A7N8X-VM microATX board, stll using my 512Mb of 
> PC2100
> ram (i.e. 266 bus speed), and putting SuSE 9.1 pro onto that. Should 
> be a
> nice system I hope!
>
> Thanks in advance for any comments or advice!
>
> Neil
>
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