On 10/19/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I seem to have such a Sempron, a socket 754 model marketed as 2500+ (running > at a real 1.4 GHz). By "effectively" do you mean that AMD has resorted to > some firmware magic to get the Sempron to talk 64-bit? Are the Semprons true > 64-bit chips? I was under the impression the Semprons were simply the same > old 32-bit Durons rebadged because of some trade name issues.
No firmware magic. The older batch of Semprons are 32-bit, and the newer ones are real 64-bit microprocessors. Semprons are just like Celerons: they're from the AthlonXP (for 32-bit) or Athlon64 (64-bit) line but they did not pass QA for AthlonXP/64 but passed QA for Sempron. -- Gideon N. Guillen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Take back the web! Download Firefox Today! http://getfirefox.com _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
