AMD Releases Sempron Earlier Than Expected

Posted by timothy on Wednesday July 28, 2004 @01:41AM from the suitcase-in-hand dept.

I_am_Rambi writes "AMD has released the Sempron today, a release date that moved up from Aug 17th. Because of this move, some of the reviews that are out, will be continued later on. Some sites already have reviews including Toms Hardware, Anandtech, and Tech Report. The Sempron, AMDs budget processor, is staged against the Intel Celeron." Jason Jacobs writes with a review on Techware Labs, and Hack Jandy adds a link to a review at HotHardware, writing "it appears as though the Socket A based Sempron performs abysmally while dollar for dollar the Socket 754 version levels every Intel CPU."

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Re:Sockets? by jCaT · 2004-07-28 03:15 · Score: 5, Interesting

Put it another way, buy an Athlon64 MB and put an Athlon 32 cpu in it. WHY?

Sounds like a good upgrade path to me- Buy a socket754 mobo and a sempron, and later on down the road you can upgrade the memory and CPU and double your performance when you can afford it.