Thornton core Semprons?

[Zap]

I guess Newegg just got Semprons in stock. Some of them are listed as having the Thornton core. If that's true, then perhaps some of them can tolerate the additional cache to be enabled, thus being a Barton, albeit a low clock speed Barton.

Thoughts?

 

[Sonic587]

Pointless seeing as how the real XPs cost less.

EDIT: Whoa, guess not. Looks like AMD hiked their prices on the retail XP line. Haven't checked them in a while.

I still don't think it'd be worth it. Even with the cache enabled( Assuming that's even possible ), you're still some odd MHz off a real barton. That'd kill any real benefit you might see from unlocking the extra 256.

 

[Concillian]

Originally posted by: Sonic587

EDIT: Whoa, guess not. Looks like AMD hiked their prices on the retail XP line. Haven't checked them in a while.

Yep, the most recent AMD "price drops" raised the price of 2800+s considerably, some other AXPs less. The processors most people around here generally buy haven't changed much (2400+ and 2600+ mobiles)

 

[o1die]

I wouldn't go with sempron, unless you try the $60 2400 model for overclocking. The higher rated models are too expensive to justify the cost. Might as well go with a regular athlon 64.