BEAWARE OF REMARKED SEMPRONS

[Braveheart77]

I have been investigating the new Sempron line (often called Sempron64) basedn on the new E6 stepping, and at least here on my country I found stores selling old semprons 754 (marked with BA part number which correspond to D0 stepping) which does not came with x86-64 extensions (doesn't even come with SSE3) sold as AMD64 ready with the stamp on the box... BEAWARE OF THAT. WHEN YOU LOOK FOR NEW SEMPRONS 754 WATCH FOR THE OPN NUMBER AND BE SURE IT ENDS WITH "BX"!!!!!

 

[Hacp]

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[Maximilian]

They have 64 bit semprons? I think not.

 

[SuperFreaky]

Originally posted by: Soviet
They have 64 bit semprons? I think not.

In Soviet Russia Links own you

 

[Maximilian]

Wow.... i stand corrected.

 

[hurtstotalktoyou]

I see a lot of fake CPUs out there. The Athlon XP 2400+ @ 1.93 GHz is my favorite.

And what's with the Athlon 64 3300+ as sold by HP/Compaq?

 

[Ike0069]

Originally posted by: hurtstotalktoyou
I see a lot of fake CPUs out there. The Athlon XP 2400+ @ 1.93 GHz is my favorite.

And what's with the Athlon 64 3300+ as sold by HP/Compaq?

Don't know about the XP you mention, but I'm sure the 3300+ is real. AMD sells some partially disabled CPU's as an OEM only. There will be a problem with the CPU and they need to disable half of the L2 cache, or something similar. It's most likely a S754 3400+, but with only 256K cache.

 

[Valkerie]

Scams. Any company or vendor would do this, don't surprised. Intel threatens their vendors if they start selling AMD chips, for example.

 

[Braveheart77]

To be sure just check the opn number on the cpu heat spreader... this way you discard package alterations by vendors. Unfortunately there is no better way to identify a cpu (other than testing it on a real machine). As Semprons, there is a new stepping (E6) marked with BX at the end of the OPN number which looks like:

SDA2800AIO3BX

They have SSE3 and x86-64 enabled!!!! And overclocks fairly well (up to 2.5/2.7ghz).
Really bang for the buck.