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Three Budget CPUs Tested

Posted by timothy on from the cheaper-than-saffron dept.

Steve writes "HEXUS.net are taking a look at three 'value' CPUs. The Sempron 2800+ and 3100+ from AMD (Socket A and Socket 754 respectively.) The price range of the three is fairly broad, the 3100+ coming out on top, also costing the most. Also, for those of you who enjoy cheap thrills, some overclocking has been thrown in, too." (The third chip reviewed is the Celeron D.)

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  1. Re:Let's just hope by Professor+S.+Brown · · Score: -1, Troll

    It being a webserver is the least of your worries. My department just bought 30 of them for running controlling complex equipment, and let me tell you this: none of them work.

    I examined them and they are all flawed. Missing resistors, back to front diodes, tracks that lead nowhere, these are certainly budget components. The Linux distro's we are forced to use are flakey enough without having to be run on systems that could have been made my aids-riddled monkeys.

    --
    Shitram Brown, PhD
    Professor of Mathematics
  2. The bible is a crutch for the weak. by Fecal+Troll+Matter · · Score: -1, Troll

    "Knowing what I know today, we still would have gone on into Iraq."
    -George Dubya
    Aug 02 04
    "Yes, I would have voted for the authority. I believe it was the right authority for a president to have."
    -John Kerry
    Aug 10 04

    Whoever wins, you lose.
    =(