Are all 754 pin Semprons a crippled A64?

[JEDI]

Last year, the slower semprons (<= sempron 3000) were based on the Athlon XP cores and were socket A. and the sempron 3100 was the only one based on the A64 core and was 754 pin.

nowadays, it looks like semprons 2600-3000 are also 754 pin. Are they also based on the A64 core?

 

[dguy6789]

All 754 pin Semprons are basically Athlon 64s with less L2 cache and the 64 bit capability disabled.

They are still extremely fast compared to the competition.

 

[forumposter32]

you mean compared to Celerons.

Sadly, with games like UT2004, the CPU is more important than the GPU. I bought both my video card and processor on sale. But, my 3400+ was about $270 Canadian after taxes and shipping and the X700 Pro was about $175 Canadian after taxes and shipping. So, I paid a lot more for my CPU than GPU.

It's kind of odd since it's usually the opposite. I still like the Sempron 3100+ as the minimum. For whatever reason, I've seen benchmarks where the Sempron 3000+, 3300+ or 3400+ did not do as well as the 3100+. (Either that, or they only passed the 3100+ by a small margin. So, for the price, the 3100+ often is a better deal.)

 

[DrMrLordX]

A few factoids:

1). The newer Semprons(labelled Sempron 64s typically) support x86-64

2). Yes, all socket 754 Semprons are basically Athlon 64s with less l2 cache

3). These things tend to overclock like mad on stock volts, getting up to 2.2-2.4 ghz with stock cooling. No reason to get the 3100+ per se. Just get one with 256k l2 cache(as opposed to the 2600+ or 3000+ which only have 128k l2) and OC it as far as you can take it without raising vcore.