[SWLUG] OT: hardware question re:cpu purchase

[bascule]

the semprons have half the cache of athlons from what i read and are 
restricted to a 333 fsb, the higher athlons have a 400 fsb, it's hard to find 
anything definitive but it seems that the 2xxx+ rating is meant to be a 
comparison to intel chips of that speed, however the suggestion is that for 
athlons the comparison was to p4s while for semprons (being the new amd 
budget chip) the comparison is to celerons, of course the newer socket 754 
semprons are reckoned to be better being based (apparently) on the athlon 64 
core (but restricted to 32bit), i could up to a s754 board and a newer 
sempron and later a full athlon 64, but thats another 60 odd squid for a 
halfway decent mobo plus the chip

of course i could be very misinformed on this stuff but it seems that an 
upgrade from my current xp 2500 (barton) to a sempron won't be getting much 
bang for buck, i'd have to move up to a sempron 2800/3000 just to have the 
same performance according to some reading i found via google, after that the 
semprons seem to be s754

bascule

On Wednesday 24 Aug 2005 23:39, steve at nexusuk.org wrote:
> As far as I am aware, the Semperons _are_ Athlon XP processors - AMD
> renamed the Athlon XPs a while back and totally confused everyone in the
> process.  (So the Semperons should run in an Athlon board - I

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