Would a sempron 2600 socket 754 be faster/better than a barton 3000 socket A?

[episodic]

I've got both and can only keep one.

Which is better?

 

[PeteRoy]

Barton will be faster.

 

[n7]

If each system if the same, then the Barton will be better.

 

[formulav8]

The Barton's 400mhz Clockspeed and 4x Times the Cache size will probably be equal to or even alittle bit faster than the Sempron.

Usually a socket a cpu needs 400-600mhz higher clock speed to come close to the A64's. I don't know if I have seen a specified bench with the low cache/low clocked Sempron's compared to the Barton cpu's.



Jason

 

[mattburk]

not if you over clock that sempron.
I am running mine at 2.5g

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/sempron-3100e.html

 

[hurtstotalktoyou]

Hmm....

The Athlon XP 3200+ is very nearly on par with the Athlon 64 2800+ in many applications, so I don't see why it shouldn't blow the Sempron 2600+ out of the water.

Also, Socket A motherboards are a bit less expensive than socket 754.

 

[penceman]

Originally posted by: mattburk
not if you over clock that sempron.
I am running mine at 2.5g

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/sempron-3100e.html

I've had trouble overclocking my Sempron. I would keep the Barton 3000+

 

[Jimmah]

Interesting, hmm, would a Sempron 2800 s754 come close to a Barton 2500/3200? I've got one that I wanna sell, but can't find any info on comparisons and such.

 

[formulav8]

If the 2800 Sempron is the 1.8ghz Part then it will pretty much equal the 3200+ Barton and maybe faster in a few. The 2500+ Barton will get beat in every single task against the Sempron. A Barton pretty much needs at least 400mhz to be on par with a 754 Sempron. And sometimes even 600mhz it seems. The Socket "A" cpu's seems to have stopped scaling well after the 2ghz mark. The 754/939 based cpu's scale much better. Partly do to the onboard memory controller. As the mhz of the cpu increases, so does the internal frequency of the memory controller. So, the latency decreases as the frequency increases.


Jason

 

[jpeyton]

Any 754 Sempron will destroy any Socket A chip, hands down. Doesn't even matter if it's the 128k cache version, because the CPU architecture is not very cache dependent.

 

[poisonthewell]

if overclocking keep the sempron - xbitlabs did a great oc overview with that chip but i can't find the link right now

 

[keeleysam]

Originally posted by: jpeyton
Any 754 Sempron will destroy any Socket A chip, hands down. Doesn't even matter if it's the 128k cache version, because the CPU architecture is not very cache dependent.

No. Just No.

The Barton will be faster.

 

[mattburk]

Originally posted by: poisonthewell
if overclocking keep the sempron - xbitlabs did a great oc overview with that chip but i can't find the link right now

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/sempron-3100e.html

Is this the link you were talking about?

or this one:
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/sempron-2600.html