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by GuardianAsher
Tue Aug 02, 2005 12:25 am
Forum: General Hardware
Topic: Sempron of Duron?
Replies: 11
Views: 2664

Hmm... amazingly, the Sempron 2600+ 754 slot is cheaper than the earlier mentioned Sempron 2200+ socket A... Cept the motherboard's more expensive, but it makes me think. Okay, differences between these two. Sempron 2200+ Socket A, FSB 333MHz 64 bit Support: No Cooling Device: Heatsink and Fan Hyper...
by GuardianAsher
Mon Aug 01, 2005 9:15 am
Forum: General Hardware
Topic: Sempron of Duron?
Replies: 11
Views: 2664

Except for the fact that this is a Socket A board, as mentioned above, and a budget system
by GuardianAsher
Mon Aug 01, 2005 9:04 am
Forum: General Hardware
Topic: Sempron of Duron?
Replies: 11
Views: 2664

Thanks for the welcome! Since I, myself, am a game enthusiast, I will be using these boards a lot more. So, the Sempron should outperform the Duron, correct? Since it has a larger cache? And for a couple of extra bucks, it would be so bad. I mean, the girl I'm building it for will most likely only, ...
by GuardianAsher
Mon Aug 01, 2005 12:40 am
Forum: General Hardware
Topic: Sempron of Duron?
Replies: 11
Views: 2664

So even at the lower clock speed, it will still outperform the Duron? I know that clock speed doesn't mean everything to a processor. AMD and Intel have shown me that XD But I don't really know all that much about the way a processor runs or what's inside of it, and I'm relatively new to AMD. I have...
by GuardianAsher
Mon Aug 01, 2005 12:31 am
Forum: General Hardware
Topic: Sempron of Duron?
Replies: 11
Views: 2664

Sempron of Duron?

I'm building a very strict budget computer for a client. I'm wanting to know which of these two processors is better. AMD Duron Applebred 1.8GHz for $43 w/o Fan or Heatsink, add decent fan/heatsink for $13 AMD Sempron Thunderbird-B 2200+ at 1.5GHz for $67 w/ Fan and Heatsink Both processors are runn...