Difference in AMD chips

[scotty47]

I am Running a Sempron 3000+ on an ASUS A7V8X-X motherboard and was wondering If I upgrade to the AMD Athlon XP 3000+ will I notice much difference, I am going to upgrade to 1500mb ram, as I work a lot with converting vcr to dvd and it takes quite a bit of resources, I know there is boards now that use the amd dual core processors, I just cant afford to go that route right now.
Just wondering if it is worth spending the money to get the XP300+ as they are getting hard to come by.
I posted this question on the ASUS website and the answer I got was:
" The XP 3000+, is a Barton Core with a 512-L2 Cache.
Your Sempron at most will have a 256-L2 Cache. It may have only a 128-L2
So in that respect the Barton is Faster. But it will run Hotter
Also, the 3000+-Barton will run at 333(2x166) Front Side Bus(Fsb).
If your Sempron is a 333Fsb Model, then the Barton wouldn't add any benefit in the Fsb.
How much of a Difference will you see with the 'Barton', I personally really do not know
Try asking that question at the Anandtech.com Forum. Somebody there should be able to answer that".
Thank you in advance for anyhelp I get......................scotty

 

[MDE]

I'd just sit on what you have and save up for a dual core machine.

 

[Furen]

The cache will help, but the most important thing (that you dont mention, by the way) is the clockspeed. If the clock speeds are close enough to each other then the barton will be slightly faster, but not fast enough to warrant an upgrade.

 

[CraKaJaX]

http://www.c627627.com/AMD/Athlon64/

Good chart on AMD processors

 

[imported_Kiwi]

There were two different XP 3000 Cpu's. The last one ran at a 400 MHz fsb, which gives it an inherent advantage. In the right MB, you can run it faster than 400, and be in XP 3200 territory pretty easily. AFAIK, you don't have a MB that will run it that fast. I'm running one of them in an Asus, but mine is an A7N8X-X. I believe it's running about 412 MHz just now.

It does run pretty hot, even at its stock fsb speed. And if the Sempron 3000 does more or less amount to about the same thing as a Throughbred B XP 2600, which I also have running, it is only in the most fast-paced of gaming situations that I believe I can sense some faster speed, so I would have to say it would be a poor investment for you.

 

[jiffylube1024]

Best way to sum up the difference between a 3000+ Sempron and a 3000+ Athlon XP: the difference will be marginal. It maybe up to 20% or so (ballpark figure) in benchmarks, but it probably won't "feel" any faster and won't save you that much time in anything.

If you're only running on 512MB of RAM then by all means upgrade to at least a gig, but if you want a tangible speed boost, you're going to have to upgrade to an Athlon64.

 

[scotty47]

Thank you for the replies Guys, I will save my pennies for the dual core.
great site here..........................scotty

 

[forumposter32]

http://www23.tomshardware.com
I looked at those charts to determine what I wanted to get. From Athlon XP 2100+ to Athlon 64 3400+, you get about double the performance in almost every benchmark I looked at. Like if one game was 75 fps on the XP, it was 150 fps on the 64. Or, some other benchmark that took 2 min with the 64, took 4 min with the XP.

I got an Athlon 64 3400+ 2.4 GHz. (I have to stop saying that. I guess I'm bragging.)
Anyway, with the stuff I read about some people turning off a core while to play certain games with a dual core, I decided to wait until 2007 or 2008 for a quad core and keep this machine for better compatibility with older software. I don't expect Windows Vista to be totally backward compatible.

Or, when the demo for UT2007 comes out, if I see all I need to do is upgrade to 2 GB RAM, a Geforce 8 and a physics processor is all I need for acceptable frame rates with that game, I might not even bother getting a multi-core processor at all.

AMD's roadmap only shows two new processors for next year, an FX-59 and X2 5000+. Everyone knows those will be very expensive. Wow, as I write this, there is only one 3400+ 2.4 GHz left at $160 US at Compuvest. Oh well, you can always use the pricing guide on this site to find the best prices.