hi,
can anyone pls tell me more abt the new sempron line of processors or guide me to links abt these processors? i tried googling ti and from what i read it seems to be a replacement for durons. is that truw or is their perforance comparable with the amd xp line of processors?
i am plannig to buy a new processor, and i already have an amd 2600+ barton core in mind but wanted to know more abt the seprons since they seem to be new in amrket.
thanks in advance

Semprons are amd's competion to intel's celeron cpu. Yes they are the replacment for durons but no they are not better than the xp models.

The semprons run a 256k L2 cache while your barton is 512K so stick with XP barton over sempron.

Have the lambs stopped crying Clarice?

The socket A Sempron is basically just a relabelled Athlon XP TBred that runs at 333FSB. For example, if you look at the specs for a Sempron 2400+...it runs at 1667mhz (10 x 166mhz). It shares the same clock speed as the Athlon XP 2000+ which also runs at 1667mhz (12.5 x 133mhz).

There's also a socket 754 Sempron based on the Athlon64, but it's stripped of the 64-bit capability & has only 256k L2 cache.

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/cpu/display/20040721013003.html

http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/20040728/

Asus A7N8X-X
1800+ @8x210mhz
512mb PC3200
Ti4200/8X 128mb
WDC 60GB

jam didn't they strip out half of the L1 cache from what was on the AthloXP? I believe that somewhat cripples this chip.

"didn't they strip out half of the L1 cache from what was on the AthloXP?"

From what I've read, it is a "pure" Athlon XP. If you didn't check the links above, here's a couple of clips from the Tom's Hardware article:

"AthlonXP becomes Sempron without any changes..."

"As the Sempron birth is nothing else than a simple renaming of AthlonXP, the consequences for customers and motherboard makers are small. If you don't mind your motherboard displaying AthlonXP at boot time, you don't even require a BIOS update."

The Sempron 3000+ (2000mhz @ 12 x 166mhz) actually has 512k L2, so it's based on the Barton Core...roughly equivalent to a 2700+? Check this CPU-Z pic:

http://www.amdboard.com/sempron_3000.html

Asus A7N8X-X
1800+ @8x210mhz
512mb PC3200
Ti4200/8X 128mb
WDC 60GB

The Sempron also appears to have tremendous overclocking abilities. It also appears to have the ability to run with a lot of XP's.

This may be blasphemy but when I went from a morgan core Duron 1300 to an XP 2400+, the performance increase was minimal.

Read all the links above and take your best shot.

My personal opinion is to save for a nice A64 rig and never look back.

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