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going from sempron 2600. any idea?

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larciel

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I was looking at replacing my sempron2600 socket 754. when running vmware.. computer slugs like a snail 😛 .. i was hoping that A64 2800 or 3000 would be good investment. or how about those 64bit semprons . would that offer similar performance to A64 or won't it matter because I run 32bit software?

thanks in adv
 
You will only see an improvement if you go up in clockspeed. At the same clockspeed the performance difference will be minimal.
 
Sempron 64s would offer the same performance as a regular Sempron. I think you're limited by:
a) The size of the L2 cache, which an A64 with 1MB or 512K L2 would solve (you only have 128k of L2 right now), since VMware has to do a lot of "transcoding" and going back to main memory so often will give you a huge performance hit.
b) The clockspeed, which any cpu faster than the 2800+ would take care of.
And, c) your memory bandwidth. This would require you to change to socket 939, since I dont think any socket 754 motherboards support the additional E3 memory ratios and the second channel of 939 would give you lots of bandwidth.
 
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