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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