64-bit Sempron Here

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KnightCrawler

What's the point really except to save $30 or so. It would be better to
buy an Athlon 64 3000+ for say $140 which offers 512K L2 and also dual
channel memory. You also have the dual core option in the future as
well when the price falls on those over the next 6 to 18 months.
 
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Ed Light

What's the point really except to save $30 or so. It would be better to
buy an Athlon 64 3000+ for say $140 which offers 512K L2 and also dual
channel memory. You also have the dual core option in the future as
well when the price falls on those over the next 6 to 18 months.
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Let's hope the 64-bitness trickles down farther to the slower ones.


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Steve

"Conclusion, Today's introduction of a 64-bit Sempron is a reaction to
Intel releasing a 64-bit capable Celeron "

So why didn't they benchmark it against a celeron?
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Because Tom is an intel whore and will never show intel in a bad
light. Just look at his slanted title of the review on the Sempron
3400+.

Example: Even when the intel 840XE was burning up motherboards tom had
the balls to blame the chipset and not the real problem, the nuclear
heater known as the 840XE. Tom is such an idiot, a chipset cannot
cause the VMR's to burn out. Tom has become such a joke, but even
that is wearing out, and he is now known as just an ass.

Steve
 
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old_fart

What's the point really except to save $30 or so. It would be better to
buy an Athlon 64 3000+ for say $140 which offers 512K L2 and also dual
channel memory. You also have the dual core option in the future as
well when the price falls on those over the next 6 to 18 months.
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It's the continuation of socket 754 cpu's for upgrade now that
athlon64 socket 754 has been discontinued.

The smaller core, newer memory controller, the bling bling extensions.

You wouldn't buy this one cuz it's too slow, but in the future, there
will eventually be something useful to 754 motherboard owners.

People will be using socket 754 motherboards for another ten years for
one thing or another. I've still got a BX box with a voodoo3 running
for some stuff.
 
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Victor A. Garcia

Also the MBO is $35 cheaper, plus the AGP slot work OK with older Video
cards, no need to expend an extra $100 for a new Video.
For most of us, non-gamers, is enough for the next two years, then will get
a fast FX on socket M MBO for $200 total, or less.
If you stay one step behind 'state-of-the-art', you save yourself a LOT of
money.
 
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Ed Light

Victor A. Garcia said:
If you stay one step behind 'state-of-the-art', you save yourself a LOT of
money.
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That's so true!

I would probably be running a Duron 700 with geforce 256 instead of an
overclocked Winchester with 6600GT if it weren't for Trainz. That sim takes
the wind out of any machine! It lets anybody make a huge world packed with
detail and upload it for other people to run. Some of these creators are
great artists. But it really stutters when you run into a packed clump of
detail as in a city.

http://forums.auran.com/TRS2004/for...417e99a10e2e6e58ddbcc92a02bf3c&threadid=55775

The pathetic thing is that I moved up through several cpu's thinking that
each would be enough. The Winchester o/c'd to 2.4 is just adequate. Finally.
No more loading worlds and deleting hundreds of details!


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