AMD New Semprons on Socket 754

Azza

Xbit labs just been testing out AMD's latest buget chips the Sempron 2600+,2800+,3000+ and 3100+ on socket 754.

Okay as you might know the sempron has been on socket 754 for a while with the 3100+ in its 130nm form.

Now its coming out in 90nm form known as Palermo which is a derivative of the Whinchester core more over the D0 Revision. Which means unlike orginally planned they don't support SSE3. Neither does it support 64bit OS's or have Cool and Quiet support. The multplyers are also fully locked.

What it has on the bright side is the NX bit (big deal) and an improved integrated memory controller. The voltage has been dropped to 1.4v meaning cooler running temps.

The 2600+ will clock in 1.6Ghz with 128KB L2 cache
2800+ will be the same speed with 256KB L2 cache.
3000+ will be 1.8Ghz and have 128KB L2 cache
the 3100+ has the same specs as the 130nm version 1.8Ghz and 256KB cache.

Whats the big deal. Those thinking they loosing have there cache might be suprised at the almost complete lack of difference it makes. Only gaming is anyway affected by that and in some games the new memory controller compenstates for that.

However costing around €70 the cpu was overclocked on the DFI nforce 3 board (1GB of Crossair PC3200 RAM) with a stock heatskin. It reached a clock speed of 2.5Ghz and as a result out performed the Athlon 64 3500 and P4 3.4E.

Not bad. Not bad at all. If thats anything to go buy the Celeron D is starting to look even paler!

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Azza wrote:

Xbit labs just been testing out AMD's latest buget chips the Sempron 2600+,2800+,3000+ and 3100+ on socket 754.

Okay as you might know the sempron has been on socket 754 for a while with the 3100+ in its 130nm form.

Now its coming out in 90nm form known as Palermo which is a derivative of the Whinchester core more over the D0 Revision. Which means unlike orginally planned they don't support SSE3. Neither does it support 64bit OS's or have Cool and Quiet support. The multplyers are also fully locked.

What it has on the bright side is the NX bit (big deal) and an improved integrated memory controller. The voltage has been dropped to 1.4v meaning cooler running temps.

The 2600+ will clock in 1.6Ghz with 128KB L2 cache
2800+ will be the same speed with 256KB L2 cache.
3000+ will be 1.8Ghz and have 128KB L2 cache
the 3100+ has the same specs as the 130nm version 1.8Ghz and 256KB cache.

Whats the big deal. Those thinking they loosing have there cache might be suprised at the almost complete lack of difference it makes. Only gaming is anyway affected by that and in some games the new memory controller compenstates for that.

However costing around €70 the cpu was overclocked on the DFI nforce 3 board (1GB of Crossair PC3200 RAM) with a stock heatskin. It reached a clock speed of 2.5Ghz and as a result out performed the Athlon 64 3500 and P4 3.4E.

Not bad. Not bad at all. If thats anything to go buy the Celeron D is starting to look even paler!

They sound pretty cool, would be good for building cheap systems and selling them.

Azza

I reckon my next PC will be a Sempron