Want to upgrade relatives machines. Is the parts I have faster ?

[choli0090]

Hello all,

I recently upgraded my 2nd computer to a AMD Athlon 64 3500+ to replace a Celeron D 336. With the spare parts I now have laying around from previous upgrades I was thinking of upgrading my parents machine & building a machine for my sister.

My parents current config is a P4 2.56ghz w/ 1 gig 2100 DDR. I don't remember my sister's machines config but it was worst then what my parents have.

The current parts that I have is a Sempron 2800 (socket A) & the Celeron D 336 & have 3 - 512 meg DDR 2700 ram sticks.

My question is would any of these two cpu's be faster then what my parents are already using. I don't want to waste my time putting somthing in & the only difference I might get is 2 seconds faster boot time.

Thanks!!!

 

[imported_Kiwi]

Having managed to avoid Intel CPUs since about the time the first Celeron came along, I don't know exactly how bad that one is, but a Sempron 2800 is roughly equivalent to that 2.56 GHz P4, so it may help your sister, if you have a nice system board to go with it. (And now that Conroe is here, who knows how much longer my AMD fetish can last.)

 

[Madwand1]

It's probably not worth the hassle for upgrading here, unless you know that the computer is heavily CPU bound in some cases. And then, you'd probably be better off with a different processor.

Upgrading the HD and MB can give some benefits at times, but for general usage, the CPU itself doesn't matter so much, as even older / average CPUs are greater than needed for typical usage.

Maybe build a backup / storage machine instead?

 

[choli0090]

Thanks for the response. I just have more more question, I would assume the Smpron is faster then the Celeron D 336

 

[htne]

The Celeron D 336 has a FSB of 133 mhz, and a clock multiplier of 21, yielding 2.8 ghz, with a 256k cache. The socket A Sempron 2800 runs at a FSB of 166 mhz, and a clock multiplier of 12, yielding 2.0 ghz, with a 256k cache. See this link:

http://www.driverheaven.net/reviews/Sempron/testing.htm

for some direct comparisons, with benchmarks. The chips are really quite similar in performance, with maybe a slight edge to the Sempron.

 

[betasub]

Appropriate that the Sempron rated as 2800+ performs on a par with its budget rival (Celeron D) with a clock of 2.8GHz

Shame it's not a Skt 754/AM2 Sempron...