Semperon vs P4

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Limp Gawd
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I'm trying to play musical computer gutz in my house to accomplish some minor goals of mine while spending very little money. Simply put could a Semperon64 2500+ (based on Athlon64 not AthlonXP) keep up with an old P4 2.4C OC'd to 3Ghz for gaming only. I believe the Semperon is running at 1.4Ghz but looks like the new 64 versions have a bigger L2 cache than the ones with 64 disabled did.
 
id say yes... just
maybe look in to a sempron64 3000+ would be better imo
 
Unless you can OC that Sempron to above 1.8 GHZ, I don't think it will compete with a P4 at 3GHZ. A Sempron 64 at 2 GHZ is roughly equal to a A64 3000+.
 
Ya I knew it was gonna be close... that lil bad boy is just 59 bux which is why its so apealing.

How well these CPUs overclocking?

The 2800's are 76$, wonder if that would be close. Plans to seriously upgrade my gaming machine next year. Not a lot of money right now, just trying to improve some things around the house in the meantime.
 
I was able to clock my Sempron64 3100 at 2749MHz stable with 1.72v and 2700MHz with 1.65v.
 
OK, I'm really trying to not spend money if possible, I think below is the most I could spend right now.

P4 (2.4C) @ 3Ghz (1000FSB)

verses:

Sempron64 2500 - 256k L2, 1.4Ghz = 59$
Sempron64 2800 - 256k L2, 1.6Ghz = 76$
Sempron64 3000 - 128k L2, 1.8Ghz = 89$
Sempron64 3100 - 256k L2, 1.8Ghz = 107$
Mobile Athlon64 3000 - 1MB L2, 1.8Ghz = 119$ (OEM, do these work in reg mobos?)
Athlon64 2800 - 512k L2, 1.8Ghz = 125$
Sempron64 3300 - 256k L2, 2.0Ghz = 130$ (?)
Sempron64 3400 - 256k L2, 2.0Ghz = 135$ (?)
 
i would spring for the sempron64 2800+ and overclock it as far as you can. what mobo are you looking at?

also.. the mobile will work in some motherboards. if you get one, definitly get a dfi nf3-250gb to go with it.
 
That $59 2500 would be a tasty morsel if the multis were unlocked.
Its 7x multi would need a 343HTT just to reach 2400.
 
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