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AMD Sempron, Opinions?

  • 07-03-2005 10:49am
    #1
    thesteve
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 902 ✭✭✭


    Anyone have experience with these processors? ie. we all know the Celeron and Duron couldn't power a calculator, the Athlon and Pentium do the job, etc...

    I have no experience with this Sempron, which side of the scale is it on?


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  • #2
    Raskolnikov
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,148 ✭✭✭✭Raskolnikov


    thesteve wrote:
    Anyone have experience with these processors? ie. we all know the Celeron and Duron couldn't power a calculator, the Athlon and Pentium do the job, etc...

    I have no experience with this Sempron, which side of the scale is it on?
    They certainly outpower the Duron's of old (I think AMD view the Sempron as it's replacement) and from my research, would out-preform a Celeron. Not only that but they do all this for less cash. Of course for this budget price, serious gamers and those that use CPU intensive applications like video-encoding, etc will be looking elsewhere. But when €80 gets you a brand new 2200+ Sempron and motherboard, how can you go wrong? Nearly forgot to mention, but the Semprons are brilliant for overclocking, I've got my 2200+ running at 2500+ and it's still running cooler than my Pentium 4.

    I think the Sempron would be a good stop-gap processor to choose until Windows bring out a 64-bit OS.


  • #3
    ChRoMe
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    Sempron is simply AMD's answer to the celeron.

    Grand for building a office pc or one for the family. Piece of crap if you are going to throw anything intenese at the machine (games,video,audio encoding etc)


  • #4
    Inspector Gadget
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,393 ✭✭✭Inspector Gadget


    The interesting thing about the Semprons is that the name actually crosses the "socket" divide - in that there are Socket A (i.e. pin-compatible with Duron/Athlon/Athlon XP processors) and Socket 754 (i.e. pin-compatible with some Athlon 64's) models. Make sure that you get the right socket type to match your chosen/current mobo.

    I seem to remember reading somewhere that the 64-bit instructions are disabled on the S754 Semprons, so bear that in mind in terms of future-proofing (if such a thing as future-proofing exists these days...) for 64-bit OSes is your reason for buying an S754 Sempron, don't.

    Hope this helps,
    Gadget


  • #5
    thesteve
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 902 ✭✭✭thesteve


    Cheers for the information packed replies lads, think I'll stay away from them so...


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