Socket AM2 Sempron 2800+

[Zap]

I picked up a couple of them from Central Computers when they were on sale at $36 each.

Why doesn't AMD acknowledge making these chips on amdcompare.com? The lowest ones for AM2 are the 3000+ which is 1.6GHz with 256k cache while the 2800+ is 1.6GHz with 128k cache. This is not some obscure OEM only chip like the socket 939 Semprons found in HP machines. These are retail PIBs.

At 330MHz HTT the chip runs at 2.64GHz. Using +0.05v extra vcore it failed CPU burn-in after about 15 minutes. That seems fairly promising - perhaps a touch more vcore or a couple MHz less may make for full stability. That would make this chip an awesome bang/buck value with a full GHz overclock. I can't see another $36 CPU performing as well. Wait, there ARE no other $36 CPUs. 😀

 

[bjc112]

Awesome news.. Could have yourself a hell of a budget machine!

 

[Trey22]

If you decide to get rid one of your chips, I'm definitely interested 😉 .

For now, I have my AM2 Sempron 3000+ which I picked up for $55 plus tax/shipping from Mwave.

 

[Zap]

How high can you push that 3000+? If it gets anywhere near mine, then you'd have slightly better overall performance from the doubled cache.

I'm doing some work on some other stuff now, but later this week will get back to the AM2 Sempron and find where it is as 100% stable as I can reasonably assume. Hopefully I don't have to drop below 325MHz HTT to keep the 1GHz overclock. 🙂

 

[Furen]

The reason why AMD doesn't acknowledge them is because they're already being phased out. Kind of like how AMD doesn't acknowledge the Turion MT-30...

 

[Trey22]

My Biostar board gets here tomorrow (Monday), I'll spend some time OC'ing at work, heh.

 

[BlingBlingArsch]

yea, oc that thing so it will be as fast as a real cpu :/

 

[Trey22]

Hey Zap, posted some OC numbers over in your Biostar thread in Motherboards. Something is really weird with my RAM speeds.