Holy crap! When did dual core sempron come out?

[nanaki333]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16819103260

Can't say it's a very good deal or anything, but I didn't even know they existed.

 

[v8envy]

Marked as new arrival, so must have been recently and quietly. This is exactly what AMD needs to solidify their position as a market leader -- more SKUs at the very low end competing with their other low end SKUs. Get that customer thinking hard regarding whether a Sempron or X2, both at the exact same price and clock speed, is the right CPU for them. That way they may forget about Intel.

</sarcasm>

Now if they put a product ID of say Sempron 4400x2 on it I could see this as a brilliant marketing move. Sell the chip with less cache for the same price as a higher clocked one with more cache, using a higher model number justified by being a different product family. As is? No idea why they'd bother. It'd have a point if it was Socket 939, but AM2? Great minds are definitely at work at AMD.

 

[nanaki333]

yeah.. the dual core celeron is in the same price range, as are AMD's own X2 chips. what's the point of a dual sempron? i never heard anything about it and was just looking for another x2 for a server. i buy all amd chips for my servers since everything i run is more memory intensive than processor. i was just shocked.

 

[Zap]

I first saw them about a week ago. Nothing exciting, just like the Celeron dual cores being $10 less than an E2140.

 

[Extelleron]

Not really an interesting CPU at $54.99- you can get an X2 4200+ 65nm for pretty much the same price.

Personally this is the market where AMD still has a lead - running at stock speeds I'd take a 2.2GHz X2 4200+ over a 1.6GHz E2140 anyday.

If this Sempron will drop into the ~$40-45 market, then it will be a better value and worth considering.

 

[daveybrat]

Originally posted by: Extelleron
Not really an interesting CPU at $54.99- you can get an X2 4200+ 65nm for pretty much the same price.

Personally this is the market where AMD still has a lead - running at stock speeds I'd take a 2.2GHz X2 4200+ over a 1.6GHz E2140 anyday.

If this Sempron will drop into the ~$40-45 market, then it will be a better value and worth considering.

Agreed, i'd seriously consider this chip for $40, but not for $55.

 

[soccerballtux]

Originally posted by: Extelleron
Not really an interesting CPU at $54.99- you can get an X2 4200+ 65nm for pretty much the same price.

Personally this is the market where AMD still has a lead - running at stock speeds I'd take a 2.2GHz X2 4200+ over a 1.6GHz E2140 anyday.

If this Sempron will drop into the ~$40-45 market, then it will be a better value and worth considering.

On that stock cooler for the e2140 you can crank it up to 2.8Ghz...no don't tell me you don't like overclocking, it's as easy as changing the fsb and bam there you have it.

 

[Vesku]

This might be a signal they will phase out the lower end X2s. Quietly release some low end Semprons and then cut the bottom two or so X2 chips.

 

[nanaki333]

it seems like they already did cut the bottom X2s. i can't really find the 3600, 3800s much anymore.

 

[Fox5]

Originally posted by: nanaki333
it seems like they already did cut the bottom X2s. i can't really find the 3600, 3800s much anymore.

It appears to be just a renaming scheme, just like when the athlon xps all magically gained a few hundred pr points and became semprons. (while still vastly underperforming the socket 754 semprons with the same pr points)