athlon 64 VS sempron 3100

mgoldb2

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Which performs better a athlon 64 2800+ or a sempron 3100+ socket 754

The only diffence I can find between the two is that the athlon 64 2800+ have a higher cache.

These 2 cpu's cost basically the same amount of money.
I have not been able to fine any articles comparing these two directly.

If I had to choose one of these two now I would take the athlon 64 2800+.

Is there some hidden factor am not thinking of that makes sempron 3100+ a good choise for anyone? or is the athlon 64 2800+ the one you should always go with since they cost the same.
 
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I would go with the athalon 64 hands down........ I think it may be a little ahead of its time to be honest :)
 
Bigshow1030 said:
I think it may be a little ahead of its time to be honest :)
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Which is a good thing, as if you want to play all the new games, you won't need to upgrade it until.. oh, june, I believe. :P
 
The thing is that my 32Bit proc will play any game available 2005 as well. :)

64Bit hardware is fine and all but it ain't like you'll gonna be needing it just to play games.
 
Which performs better a athlon 64 2800+ or a sempron 3100+ socket 754
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The Sempron is a better deal because the A64-2800 doesnt have a heatspreader and as such aftermarket heatsinks are gonna be a pain to implement. The Sempron3100 is essentially a 64bit proc without any idea of 64bit stuff. Furthermore, with OCing the Sempron3100 will easily come out on top
 
Praetor said:
The Sempron is a better deal because the A64-2800 doesnt have a heatspreader and as such aftermarket heatsinks are gonna be a pain to implement. The Sempron3100 is essentially a 64bit proc without any idea of 64bit stuff. Furthermore, with OCing the Sempron3100 will easily come out on top
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Does the lower cache have any effect on the performance of the sempron?
 
I found a Sempron 3100+ and an AMD64 2800+ on newegg.com for about the same price. I would go with the 64-bit, since if you look, they have the same operating frequency (1.8Ghz) and the AMD64 has twice the L2 cache.

Im also debating between the Athlon64 2800+ and the AthlonXP 2800+/
 
Does the lower cache have any effect on the performance of the sempron?
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To answer that look at the FX53 and the A64-4000 --- not an earth shattering difference.

I found a Sempron 3100+ and an AMD64 2800+ on newegg.com for about the same price. I would go with the 64-bit, since if you look, they have the same operating frequency (1.8Ghz) and the AMD64 has twice the L2 cache.
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Yes but as noted:
1. The cachecount doesnt mean anything really
2. Also some A64-2800s arent very aftermarket heatsink friendly and thats a hassle I dont want lol
3. If you look around you can get the Sempron 3100 for about $20 less :)

Im also debating between the Athlon64 2800+ and the AthlonXP 2800+/
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Theres no debate there, the A64 is superior

yes, but like they said above.....cache is pretty much non evident in the 64
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I wouldnt say non-evident :P ... non-critical tho :P
 
Praetor said:
To answer that look at the FX53 and the A64-4000 --- not an earth shattering difference.
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Unless Tom hardware giving me wrong information again both the A64 4000+ and fx53 has 1mb l2 chahe. If this is true I dont see how this comparison is relevent. Acturally for what I can see there no difference between the 4000+ and fx53 except the fx53 have unlocked multipliers.
 
Unless Tom hardware giving me wrong information again both the A64 4000+ and fx53 has 1mb l2 chahe. If this is true I dont see how this comparison is relevent. Acturally for what I can see there no difference between the 4000+ and fx53 except the fx53 have unlocked multipliers.
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I mentioned the 4000/53 to note that cache doesnt make a world of difference --- that a "FX" processor isnt "all that special" because of its cache-count. There's also an implicit comparison between 3800/4000 in that there isnt a world of difference. .... poorly worded... perhaps i should have replied with

"Cache doesnt mean a lot to current generation AMD processors, consider the 4000 and the FX53 .... damn near identical performance (as it should be) .... then compare the 3800 and 4000 which offer damn near the same performance (even tho the 3800 has half the cache) which then essentially compares the 3800 to the 'prestigious' FX53 processor"

:)
 
I have seen a review (i think on tom's hardware) that says that the amd 64 and sempron are almost tied but the sempron oc's way more and the amd64 is 64 bit (if you want to run windows xp x64 when it comes out...).
 
Hey quick question on this sort of line. :D

Im buying a new laptop, narrowed it down to two choices at the moment, one is a Sempron 3000, the other is a Athlon 64 choice of 3000 and 3400 (not much difference in price), the Athlon 64 however is alot more expensive than the sempron 3000, both have pretty much the same specs, same amount of ram etc.

Use is normally pretty light, however do like the odd game of C&C Generals, and encode a few DVD's in to DivX etc.

What would be the better buy, getting the sempron 3000, and up the RAM to 1GB or a Athlon 3000/3400, with 512mb RAM.

Oh and the difference in price between the two is around $320.00 (US). :(

Many thanks for any help. :)
 
I have seen a review (i think on tom's hardware) that says that the amd 64 and sempron are almost tied but the sempron oc's way more and the amd64 is 64 bit (if you want to run windows xp x64 when it comes out...).
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Yes but THG is inconsistent in a lot of things....

Out of the box, the Athlon64-2800 is the superior setup and even overclocked it is potentially a superior setup however if you consider pricing perhaps the Semperon3100 may tie-out with it :)

Im buying a new laptop, narrowed it down to two choices at the moment, one is a Sempron 3000, the other is a Athlon 64 choice of 3000 and 3400 (not much difference in price), the Athlon 64 however is alot more expensive than the sempron 3000, both have pretty much the same specs, same amount of ram etc.
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For 320US id prolly go for the RAM infusion :)
 
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