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upgrade to 3200 CPU or dive into the sempon CPU?
Which should I do? I got an nforce 2 motherboard running an AMD 2600 and I
am thinking about ugrading in the next 6 months so should I go for the 3200 400FSB or the new sempon on a new mothearboard? my memory is 1 gig of DDR 3200. Thanks for the help Anthony |
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On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 14:13:03 -0500, Anthony wrote:
Which should I do? I got an nforce 2 motherboard running an AMD 2600 and I am thinking about ugrading in the next 6 months so should I go for the 3200 400FSB or the new sempon on a new mothearboard? my memory is 1 gig of DDR 3200. Thanks for the help Anthony Going from a 2600 to 3200 isn't going to be a life changing upgrade, it will be slightly noticable but not a huge win. On the other had it isn't all that expensive so you might as well do it if it makes you happy. When you do a real upgrade forget about the Sempron and get a proper Athlon64-939. In 6 months the pricing might be reasonable. |
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On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 14:13:03 -0500, Anthony wrote:
Which should I do? I got an nforce 2 motherboard running an AMD 2600 and I am thinking about ugrading in the next 6 months so should I go for the 3200 400FSB or the new sempon on a new mothearboard? my memory is 1 gig of DDR 3200. Thanks for the help Forget Sempron. Your 2600+ is faster than the 2800+ Sempron. The Semprons or not model numbered using the same benchmarks. Basically, the Sempron is a Tbred B core with a new name, clocked slower, using a different set of benchmarks and numbering it higher. If you want to compare speeds between the Semprons, just subtract 400 from the model number and you will then have the same as the XP. The same goes for socket 754 Semprons. The only thing you would gain going from a 2600+ to a 3200+ would be 256K more of L2 cache. And that's not much in terms of performance. Save your money or go A64. -- Abit KT7-Raid (KT133) Tbred B core CPU @2400MHz (24x100FSB) http://mysite.verizon.net/res0exft/cpu.htm |
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