What is the intel equivalent to sempron 3850?

[ExoMale]

looking at buying an oldish computer for the missus to use for storing her things and generally using as her laptop is as slow as mine(celeron 900) so she doesn’t use it, so want her to have a desktop that’s fast enough she might bother using it lol, which means also cheap.... I haven’t even used my computers since I’ve built them lol, So I don’t even know what the am1 is like, but I could let her use it if I get a bigger hdd as a temp thing, however I still want that for htpc, just the idea of low power system is an ideal scenario for me buying her and the usage.

I know celeron is normally the intel version to the the sempron, but there’s more celeron choices and some faster ones too, so I don’t know which one would equal or better my quad sempron.

 

[chippy08]

G3258 would be 100% faster than your Am1 system i know i use to use an Am1 system, the Am1 system would take over 4 hours to install 179 windows updates where the g3258 only took 2 hours.

 

[ExoMale]

Thanks for reply.

No doubt about the G range being better, my sempron was to test the board works and to setup as a HTPC, I just want to get her a cheap low power system whether I build it or buy it whole as it won’t be anything I’d tinker with.

 

[Rannoch]

An SSD will make a huge difference.

 

[humbug]

 

[mistersprinkles]

Even trash-grade CPUs these days can hold their own for a general use PC. I built my mom a Haswell based celeron machine running integrated GPU and a 120GB SSD and it boots fast and works well for her simple MS office stuff, email, netflix, youtube, etc, at 1080P.

Don't try to do any heavy multitasking or anything as they have about as much cache as a dead hamster but for simple piddling about they do well.

Alternatively you can get more power for the same price in a used CPU. Maybe an i5/i7 sandybridge machine.