X-bit Budget Processors Comparison

[klah]

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articl...u/display/sempron.html

The major topic for discussion in our new budget CPU guide is the eternal rivalry between the two new value processor families from AMD and Intel. We tested 14 new processors in 27 benchmarks and now we are ready to name the best choice for a budget system. Find out who the winner is!

Here is Derek's review for comparison: http://www.anandtech.com/cpuch...oc.aspx?i=2139&p=1

 

[eplebnista]

Thanks for the links! :thumbsup:

 

[Zap]

Very interesting. Something for the Celeron haters to chew on.

I like 'em both. Got my overclocked Deleron chips and my overclocked mobile Athlons. Life is good.

 

[Zebo]

Originally posted by: Zap
Very interesting. Something for the Celeron haters to chew on.

I like 'em both. Got my overclocked Deleron chips and my overclocked mobile Athlons. Life is good.

Zap no offense, as the celeronD is better than the past, but the paris sempron is simply destroying it.

Clock for clock, even using thier highly celeronD favorable encoding tests, paris is 1.78X faster when all scores are normalized, would be worse ratio using AMD favorable apps such as DVD2AVI etc...Anyway...meaning you OC paris to 2500Mhz, it's equals a 4450Mhz CelD(2500x1.78)...impossible on conventional cooling.

I donno what they were thinking with the tbred semprons though It's ratio, from the tests used here, is only 1.26 clock for clock. Meaning if you OC one of those to 2500Mhz a deleron 3150 beats it.

I get out of this don't buy a t-bred sempron or a deleron

 

[ZobarStyl]

Yeah steer clear of both the T-Bred Sempron and the Deleron. The Paris Sempron with the onboard memory controller is going to run all over a Deleron.

 

[Porter21]

I would go sempron.

 

[Zap]

Originally posted by: Zebo
Zap no offense, as the celeronD is better than the past, but the paris sempron is simply destroying it.

I get out of this don't buy a t-bred sempron or a deleron

Yay, people are using the word "Deleron." Remember, I coined it here at the AT forums. You guys heard it first. LOL.

No offense taken. Sure the Paris kills the Deleron, but the most recent Paris deal at Fry's was $160 and the most recent Deleron 330 deal was $80. The particular Deleron 330 I got almost ran at 4GHz, but was unstable. They Fry's Deleron 320 I got previously runs great at 3.6GHz. There's hope with slower Delerons, and though the Paris kills it with performance, the Deleron kills the Paris with low price. Who'dda thought that Intel would be cheaper bang-for-buck than AMD...

Oh, one interesting thing... there's a listing for a Deleron 315. If Fry's starts doing a Deleron 315 bundle with the same motherboards they've been using, I think people would be hard pressed to NOT recommend those because overclocking to 3.4GHz at default voltage would almost be a shoe-in for these bundles WITH the included disposable motherboard. Fry's had been using the ECS 848P-A board, but the one I got was the ECS PT800CE-A board. Both of these support single channel DDR400, 800MHz FSB, SATA (the VIA chipset has RAID also). If my bundle was $80, maybe $70 or less for a Deleron 315? I can only dream...

 

[Zebo]

Who'dda thought that Intel would be cheaper bang-for-buck than AMD...
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Yup....I want one. To bad frys always bundels crap mobos with them...Can't justfy $90 for a IS7 and $90 more for processor when Mobile XP's are still floating around though. AMD better scrap those 3yr old cores for a complete line of Paris semprons to lead in performance or lower prices. Simple as that.

 

[klah]

Originally posted by: Zap

Yay, people are using the word "Deleron." Remember, I coined it here at the AT forums. You guys heard it first. LOL.

You are the 1st result for 'Deleron' on google :thumbsup:

 

[Zap]

Originally posted by: klah

Originally posted by: Zap

Yay, people are using the word "Deleron." Remember, I coined it here at the AT forums. You guys heard it first. LOL.

You are the 1st result for 'Deleron' on google :thumbsup:

WHOO HOOO!!!!! Thanks for pointing that out to me.

Zebo, the board I got in the $79.99 deal with the retail Deleron 330 was the ECS PT800CE-A. I've checked it out and it doesn't seem too horrible for a freebie disposable board. It uses the VIA PT800 chipset, meaning NO AGP/PCI lock, but it does have 2/4/6% voltage boosts for RAM and VCORE, and 1MHz increments for FSB (probably only usable for 10-15MHz boosts), 6 channel sound, 10/100 NIC, AGP 8X, passive NB cooling, 4 rear USB and two sets of front USB headers, SATA RAID. Not too shabby, can probably sell for $30 leaving you with a $50 Deleron 330. Or, use it with a CPU that's a lousy overclocker, or do a minor overclock on the Deleron 330 to 2.8-3.0GHz. Sure it isn't the enthusiasts choice of boards, but it isn't completely worthless. Fry's offers a $50 upgrade for any of their socket 478 ECS board combos to an MSI PT880 board. That board does have an AGP/PCI lock and more voltage options. Unfortunately I don't think it worth $50 more.

All in all, not a bad value. BTW, the cheaper Sempron deals are for OEM chips w/o heatsink. The Deleron is retail boxed with this cool looking radial heatsink that I haven't seen before, not the same as the "X" shaped heatsink.