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Martyuk39

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I can't get my preferred Athlon XP 2500 for budget systems at all now - lowest I can get is a 3000 which isn't really budget enough, so I'm having to go with Sempron (ugh). Anyway, here's a question. If I buy a motherboard which needs a bios upgrade to work with a Sempron, will it "sort of" work with the Sempron out of the box and boot to a floppy? Or would I have to install an Athlon, upgrade the BIOS then remove the Athlon and install the Sempron. Which is right?
Thanks
 
Newegg still has several different AXP's in stock, including a Barton 2600 and several slower ones. Maybe one of them will do?
 
Marty I can't be 100% sure but I beleive that my mobo's BIOS would have supported my Sempron right out of the box IF I would have had the jumper's set correctly when I first booted up. I did everything to try and figure out why my computer wouldn't recognize the Sempron, even did a Live BIOS Update using MSI's LiveUpdate software. Still didn't recognize it. But once I change those jumpers it noticed the Sempron right away.

Figured I'd chime in and let you know my experience. So far I love my Sempron 2500+ to death, no complaints.
 
Semprons are ok for socket a. They're just Thouroughbreds. I might get a Sempron 2800+ for my little media server. Not too much of a hit from an AMD XP 2800+ with basic productivity applications.
 
The 2700+ can be had for around the same price as the Barton 2600+

Tbred 2700+ for applications - It actually can match the Barotn 3000+ in most app benchmarks because of its high clock speed, because of this, I bought one when I built my GF's rig, she does not play games.

Barton 2600+ for games
 
Originally posted by: Martyuk39
I can't get my preferred Athlon XP 2500 for budget systems at all now - lowest I can get is a 3000 which isn't really budget enough, so I'm having to go with Sempron (ugh). Anyway, here's a question. If I buy a motherboard which needs a bios upgrade to work with a Sempron, will it "sort of" work with the Sempron out of the box and boot to a floppy? Or would I have to install an Athlon, upgrade the BIOS then remove the Athlon and install the Sempron. Which is right?
Thanks
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I just went through the same thing. Couldn't find any 2500+ bartons in the FS/FT forum, so picked up a 2400+ sempron. I built it in a Biostar 200V sff rig. The mobo had to be flashed, just like you are describing, to get Sempron support. It worked fine before the flash, just didn't show as a "Sempron" cpu. The speed and multiplier was all fine though. All the flash did for me was make it say "Sempron"...
 
I've tried Semprons on 2 different brands with different results. On Gigabyte brand motherboards, the sempron will post and boot, but the cpu will not show up properly, so you just have to boot to a floppy and flash the bios.

On the ECS brand motherboards with a sempron installed, i got no video at all. I had to put an old Duron in the system to flash the bios then put the Sempron back in and then it worked fine.

Much more of a pain on the ECS.

 
Originally posted by: daveybrat
On the ECS brand motherboards with a sempron installed, i got no video at all. I had to put an old Duron in the system to flash the bios then put the Sempron back in and then it worked fine.

Much more of a pain on the ECS.
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My original Sempron 2500+/ECS mobo was a PITA!!

I then decided to go get a MSI K7 Delta board and works as described above.

 
Same issue was with me and a Soyo board and a Semp2500. The machine will post(and boot into windows) like an Athlon 2200 or something. Then once you apply the bios update.......it will show the correct Sempron 2500. No worries.
 
Thanks for all the help. I'm in the UK so I can't use Newegg. I'll take my chances with the Sempron. Or try and persuade the purchaser to get an Athlon XP 3000 (which is available) for a few more pennies
 
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