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XP vs Sempron

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Stick with XP or buy sempron?

I have a bit of a dilema

Currently installed on this pc is an Athlon XP-M 300 chip @ 1.8GHz on a 754 board. I want to upgrade it to the best possible chip around for the time being. With the XP being part of the Athlon family, would it be wise to install a Sempron or would there be very little difference?

Your answers would be appreciated :D
 
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Raikiri said:
I guess you mean an Athlon XP-M 3000+? And socket 462?

Or you mean Athlon 64 3000+, in which case the 4000+ was the fastest model made for the 754 socket afaik.


No its deffo a Mobile AMD Athlon XP-M Processor 3000+ on a ECS 761GX-M754 motherboard
 
Can someone please help me with my dilemma. There are Athlon XP Chips that are 754 and thats what I have but I dont want to go spending my money on a sempron if there is going to be little difference
 
Raikiri said:
Thats strange, but as it is socket 754 you can get an athlon 64 for it (auction sites etc would be the bes tplace to look)

This pc is for the missus. I just need to give it a little more ooooh lala for her.

My little baby i'm building this weekend and cant wait to boot her up ;)
 
Papa Lazarou said:
Socket 754 boards would not have an on board memory controller (as they are integrated into the CPU itself with Athlon 64/Sempron 64) so I don't see how an Athlon XP could work in this board, even if it did physically fit.

How about putting up some screenshots of your results from CPU Z? http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php


I would but as i'm new on this site it doesnt allow me at the moment otherwise I would. I have one already and have tried but cant :(
 
Mul said:
Yep, most likely one of those Dublin Athlon XP's. Presumably it performs about par with an AMD Sempron 64 2800+ since it has a stock speed of 1.6GHz and level 2 cache of 256kb? I also notice the cpu is overclocked slightly by 160mhz.

A Fully fledged Athlon 64 like the 3400+ or 3700+ should be reasonably quicker. If its a standard office work pc, the question whether the performance increase will be noticed, is debatable.

Mul


Thanks for the info :D

I tried to get a bit more out but it locks up. Pity as it still stands loaded @ 43c
 
Papa Lazarou said:
According to this here the "Paris" Semprons were Socket 754 desktop processors without AMD64 support and there were several mobile/desktop replacement Semprons, "Dublin" and others without AMD64 support. But they are all going to be K8's I would say. The "Athlon XP" branding, in my mind anyway are all K7's chips, the latest being the Barton.


Is it strange that I can actually enable cool & quiet on this thing???

I was reading a review the other day that they were the desktop replacements for the likes of HP who managed to have the 'Dublin' chip and the ECS Motherboard as an all in one solution.

Its a pokey little thing. Runs far cry with a crappy 6200 128meg clocked 25% more at medium settings
 
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Nutbusta said:
If th emotherboard has good overclocking features like cpu voltage upto 1.6 and high FSB (300MHz or more) then a current Sempron (256kb cache ones only) will stomp on your old chip when overclocked. and probably faster (especially per pound) than even 1MB cache 3700 CH

It will need to be overclocked though


I'm running it with a 300W power supply though.

Is that enough oooomph?
 
Mul said:
he's got an SiS based board. HTT's will top out in the early 200's i'd expect.


I have managed to get it to 220 comfortably and anything over it just locks up

edit:1.6GHz -> 1.86GHz
 
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