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Yea, I had read that. That's why I was thinking of getting the Sempron, because at least it will still be available if it is needed to be replaced.

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why would it need to be replaced?

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Incase it packs up on me. I always leave my PC on running climateprediction, meaning it puts stress on my CPU 24/7, so it is more prone to fail early.

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Looks like it's going to be this:

http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...duct_uid=77152

Can a mod remove the poll if possible please? :)

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Well some info for ya all.

I am running a locked Athlon XP 2800 with 768mb of ddr 3200 333mhz ram, on a ATI Radeon 9200SE, and 80gb 7200rpm Maxtor drive.

After some tuning with better cfm more noise fans and no overclocking I am now able to run doom3 1024 by 768 with a few toys in graphics on at about 35fps I see.

Most impressed and am planning on building a more dedicated system for a budget soon, may house the replacement 90mn core but to be honest a Socket A 3200 would sound a nice option to me. Luckily me knows a shop where I just walk in buy and walk out.

Will get his permission and the Admins to post his website banner here.

Edit: just spotted last post with the linky. Nice buy at only 70quid :Yikes:

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Well if you saw the post of the benchmark I looked at with the Sempron 2500+, and Athlon XP 2500+, the Sempron was only just slightly slower than the Athlon XP due to it's 256KB L2 cache. But, the one in that link on Ebuyer has a 512KB L2 cache, so basically, it's an Athlon XP 3000+ just at a budget price and a nice 3 year warranty :)

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Well it's the Sempron 3000+ all the way, just looking at the list of what it supports, it supports:

3D Now! Professional technology
SSE2 (SSE2 is why all the Intel based CPU systems on CPDN are in the lead, so the Sempron will perform EXTREMELY well under CPDN, which is what I need the most)
120 nanometer technology

Thanks to all that posted!

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Let us know how you get on, I am close to building a gaming rig for myself just something to play doom3 and some moderate games.

Curious as I know the Athlon XP chip obh, and moving to the Sempron is weird, because I wonder if the current Socket A mobo's will work okay with this processor? I know its a Socket A and Socket A been working for yonks now, but my worry is being a new core is it stable enough yet?

As for price well I am impressed but have a linky now to something interesting for you all to read.

Source

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/AMD_Sempron.html

right at bottom of the page. :D

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AMD already have my motherboard in the Sempron's "Recommended Motherboards" list, and I also checked if mine support the 3000+ and it does, so that's good news for me :)

I think the 3000+ is the only Sempron with a 512KB L2 cache :erm:

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yeah but they're both socket A so if you get an XP now that doesnt stop you replacing it with a sempron if your XP blows up.


looks like you only get SSE2 with the 3100

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu...sempron_3.html

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I found a socket 754 Sempron processor at overclockers.co.uk which could show that the higher speed processors in the new range are going 754 in there socket.

linky

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/AMD_Sempron.html

Right at the bottom of the above link.

Edit: is the size of the cache that important??? should I be more looking into 512 cache size over 256?

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that's right the high end ones are cut down athlon 64's so use the 754 socket.

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Think that will be a nice processor given 2gb of ram and a high end visual card?

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I dont like the idea of these semprons - I think it's a gimick cutting stuff out of the processor and then calling it a sempron - it's just a ploy to compete with Celeron.

personally, I'd pay the extra few quid and get the real thing - an athlon 64 but that would mean replacing the motherboard for anyone who has a socket A motherboard!

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here's some reviews:-

http://www.short-media.com/review.php?r=253

http://www.techwarelabs.com/reviews/processors/sempron

http://www17.tomshardware.com/cpu/20040728