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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 £80 for AMD 3300 64-Bit. Would I be able to find better quality CPU's for the same price or less?

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?

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 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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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