AMD Sempron 64Bit, any good?

Sir Ibi · Post by **Sir Ibi** » 14 Feb 2006, 01:56

Just wondering if AMD Semprons are good processors for the price, and also what would be the Intel equivalant.

The processor I'm looking at, is priced around Â£80 for AMD 3300 64-Bit. Would I be able to find better quality CPU's for the same price or less?

The Gravedigger · Post by **The Gravedigger** » 14 Feb 2006, 04:19

Depends on what you are going to be doing.... I personally would go for a tiny bit more expensive one, the AMD Athlon 64 3500+
/me no likey the Semperon chipsets
My question is.....

Planning to use it for multi-taking, or gaming?

korge · Post by **korge** » 14 Feb 2006, 04:57

There are many different types of 64Bits. My father owns the $600 one, but if you want, go out and buy the $1k version.

I hear they are good, but it will take a while before more apps are taking advantage of the 64bit platform.

The Gravedigger · Post by **The Gravedigger** » 14 Feb 2006, 05:29

The 1k version that korge is speaking about is the

AMD Fx-57 or FX-60

the FX-60 was shown to be the best CPU atm

Sir Ibi · Post by **Sir Ibi** » 14 Feb 2006, 11:58

The CPU isn't for me... my friend wants a budget PC... so I'm trying to find something that meets his budget and also is good value for money. If money was no object I would've gone straight for the FX-60.

The sempron were the cheapest chipsets I could find.

PSZeTa · Post by **PSZeTa** » 14 Feb 2006, 17:43

You're only buying a processor?

If so.. I'd save up some money for a new socket because Socket 754 is a dead end, and you're better off with a normal AMD64.

Sir Ibi · Post by **Sir Ibi** » 14 Feb 2006, 19:04

Well I went to the local PC shop and got AMD64 3200 Venice Core for just over Â£100 and a cheap Asrock 939DUAL motherboard for about Â£40 and also an ATI X800 256 GTO for about Â£100... altogether (including the usual bits and pieces) the whole shabang cost less then Â£400, for a pretty decent PC.

Xtreme2 · Post by **Xtreme2** » 19 Feb 2006, 18:12

thats nice!, you can compare the semprons with celerons... good for office/whatever use but not for gaming

XcoldstarX · Post by **XcoldstarX** » 26 Feb 2006, 14:52

its good...try to pair these sempron64 wtith the Nvidia NF4 4x motherboard....allows u to even pair it up with decent pci-e video cards like the x1800xl or the 7800GT

Ceano · Post by **Ceano** » 01 Mar 2006, 14:08

The Sempron is the sneak version of 64 bits processors, go for ether a Venice or San Diego.