Sempron 64 3100 to a Venice 3200???

[Texun]

I've got a Sempron 3100 S754 with a gig of RAM on an mATX board that I use mostly for ripping and video encoding. The Sempron does a nice job for what it is but I was wondering if there would be any noticeable improvement in swapping it out for a Venice 3200 now that 754's are getting cheap.

The board doesn't (or hasn't) OC'd very well so comparing the two at stock, would the 3200 Venice at 2.2g give me a decent boost over the 3100 Sempron with 256k cache at 1.8g?
If so then it would be a cheap upgrade.

Thanks!

 

[Stumps]

yes it would be a reasonable upgrade....but if you OC the Venice then it becomes a very good upgrade, especially if you can reach 2.6-2.7ghz like a lot of Venices can.

 

[Texun]

Originally posted by: Stumps
yes it would be a reasonable upgrade....but if you OC the Venice then it becomes a very good upgrade, especially if you can reach 2.6-2.7ghz like a lot of Venices can.

Done. Orderd the $55 OEM chip from the Egg. Thanks.

 

[Stumps]

Originally posted by: Texun

Originally posted by: Stumps
yes it would be a reasonable upgrade....but if you OC the Venice then it becomes a very good upgrade, especially if you can reach 2.6-2.7ghz like a lot of Venices can.

Done. Orderd the $55 OEM chip from the Egg. Thanks.

US$55 jeez that's pretty good....the 3200+ still goes for twice as much here in Australia.

 

[Texun]

Originally posted by: Stumps

Originally posted by: Texun

Originally posted by: Stumps
yes it would be a reasonable upgrade....but if you OC the Venice then it becomes a very good upgrade, especially if you can reach 2.6-2.7ghz like a lot of Venices can.

Done. Orderd the $55 OEM chip from the Egg. Thanks.

US$55 jeez that's pretty good....the 3200+ still goes for twice as much here in Australia.

I never planned to dump more money in a S754 system, but then again I was actually expecting the cpu's to go up once they hit their EOL and quantities dropped. Remember the socket A XP Athlons? WOW!!! A person could have bought a new board and low end S939 for what an XP3000 was going for in its last days.

PS: Adorable little girl. Congratulations!

 

[Stumps]

Originally posted by: Texun

Originally posted by: Stumps

Originally posted by: Texun

Originally posted by: Stumps
yes it would be a reasonable upgrade....but if you OC the Venice then it becomes a very good upgrade, especially if you can reach 2.6-2.7ghz like a lot of Venices can.

Done. Orderd the $55 OEM chip from the Egg. Thanks.

US$55 jeez that's pretty good....the 3200+ still goes for twice as much here in Australia.

I never planned to dump more money in a S754 system, but then again I was actually expecting the cpu's to go up once they hit their EOL and quantities dropped. Remember the socket A XP Athlons? WOW!!! A person could have bought a new board and low end S939 for what an XP3000 was going for in its last days.

PS: Adorable little girl. Congratulations!

Thanks, the pic is a little old now, Emily is almost 3 months old so I need to update it.

I'm pretty much on my last AGP system....A skt 754 3000+ venice running at 2.87ghz...it's pretty sweet for an "older" system, I just purchased my last AGP video card today which will give it a bit of a kick in the bum.

 

[Texun]

[/quote]Thanks, the pic is a little old now, Emily is almost 3 months old so I need to update it.

I'm pretty much on my last AGP system....A skt 754 3000+ venice running at 2.87ghz...it's pretty sweet for an "older" system, I just purchased my last AGP video card today which will give it a bit of a kick in the bum.[/quote]

She sure looks cute.

People knock the S754 but I've got three of them plus an aging 939 FX. I also built two other 3100's for school use and one for my sister to do email and watch DVDs. That's a total of five and they are all perfectly solid performers. Of course they are painfully slow when compared to the high end and dual core CPUs, but they still do 95% of what most people want from a computer.

This 3200 Venice will replace a 3100 Semron that rips DVDs, and with a 6600GT card plays most old but good games like Flat Out, CS:S, HL2 and CoD great on my HDTV at very decent settings. I'm not pulling it because it can't handle the work. It's going to replace a PIII-700 that I have been using for a server.