On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 14:58 -0400, Jeremy Muhlich wrote: > Those are not clock speeds, but rather AMD's semi-arbitrary "Processor > Rating" values. The Sempron PR values are supposed to compare to > Celeron clock speeds, and the A64 is rated against the Pentium 4. > Thus > you can't compare those two chips on the PR number alone. > > The Athlon 64 2800+ and the Sempron 3100+ happen to be the exact same > core, running at the *same* 1.8GHz, both on socket 754. The ONLY > difference is that the Sempron has half the L2 cache, which hurts you > a > bit in memory bandwidth-intensive apps like video processing. > Definitely go for the A64 3100+. > > Here's a good review I found with some benchmarks: > http://www.anandtech.com/linux/showdoc.aspx?i=2170
Whoops, I misread the specs on the Sempron 3100+. I thought it was 2.0, not 1.8. My bad. I understand the differences between Semprons and Athlons (: Hope the info helps somebody else though. -- Jesse Keating RHCE (geek.j2solutions.net) Fedora Legacy Team (www.fedoralegacy.org) GPG Public Key (geek.j2solutions.net/jkeating.j2solutions.pub) Was I helpful? Let others know: http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=jkeating _______________________________________________ mythtv-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-dev
