Who here is waiting for Athlon 64 Rev E?

[Wicked2010]

Originally posted by: Avalon
No one claimed the sempron was better than the A64. Chip design? They are the same design as an A64. They just have half the cache and 64 bit disabled. Clock for clock, the sempron is "inferior" to the A64, but price wise, it is superior. While I spent $80 for my sempron that is 10% slower clock for clock than your winchester, you paid at least $150 for your chip. More than 75% price increase for only 10% more performance? I'll take my 2.72ghz sempron/2.5ghz winchester for $80, thanks.

Chill.

The two chips differ more than just the criteria you suggest. Have you ever looked at core design for a CPU? No one is saying which one is the more "cost effective" chip... my discussion with you was trying to compare two chips solely by their speed (MHZ).

An AMD Sempron 3000+ is $96 right now while the Winne 3000+ is $150.

But for me, with the soon to be released Longhorn, you'd have to be a dumb dumb to want to invest in a Sempron right now. Please note that the $150 chip is a steal... extremely cheap.

You have some good points on it's cost effectiveness... but that would have made sense about 18 months ago.