Sempron and Turion
In competing with Intel's Celeron processors, AMD's Sempron is doing a great job in keeping up and staying competitive. One of the 64-bit Semprons that caught our attention was the 2800+ Palermo core with 256KB L2 cache [RTPE: SDA2800BXBOX]. Hovering at about $75, it appears to be a decent deal for a budget upgrade. After various ups and downs, it seems as though the Sempron 2800+ has begun to steady out. Moreover, if you're looking into the higher end of the Sempron spectrum searching for greater performance, we would like to encourage you to take a peek into the Socket 939 because of the added L2 cache, which gives a fine amount of increased performance for the small addition of cost.
AMD's Turion processor is doing fairly well in the market. After holding a steady price for some time, we've noticed that the Turion ML-37 [RTPE: TMDML37BKX5LD] has begun to progressively drop during the past week or so.
Unlike the Mobile Athlon XP's, the Mobile Athlon 64's aren't that great of a hit with consumers. Perhaps because of the low sales, we are now seeing vendors with low stock on this processor. There hasn't been much of a change with these Mobile 64-bit CPUs, but the Mobile 3200+ with 1MB of L2 cache [RTPE: AMN3200BIX5AR] has recently begun to drop in price. From the diagram below, you can see that the price has quickly dropped within about one month to where it is at now. It could mean that vendors are trying to get rid of the current stock quickly, but we'll have to wait and see what will happen with these Mobile 64's.
In competing with Intel's Celeron processors, AMD's Sempron is doing a great job in keeping up and staying competitive. One of the 64-bit Semprons that caught our attention was the 2800+ Palermo core with 256KB L2 cache [RTPE: SDA2800BXBOX]. Hovering at about $75, it appears to be a decent deal for a budget upgrade. After various ups and downs, it seems as though the Sempron 2800+ has begun to steady out. Moreover, if you're looking into the higher end of the Sempron spectrum searching for greater performance, we would like to encourage you to take a peek into the Socket 939 because of the added L2 cache, which gives a fine amount of increased performance for the small addition of cost.
AMD Sempron 64 (754) 2800+ 256KB Palermo
AMD's Turion processor is doing fairly well in the market. After holding a steady price for some time, we've noticed that the Turion ML-37 [RTPE: TMDML37BKX5LD] has begun to progressively drop during the past week or so.
AMD Turion ML-37 1MB
Unlike the Mobile Athlon XP's, the Mobile Athlon 64's aren't that great of a hit with consumers. Perhaps because of the low sales, we are now seeing vendors with low stock on this processor. There hasn't been much of a change with these Mobile 64-bit CPUs, but the Mobile 3200+ with 1MB of L2 cache [RTPE: AMN3200BIX5AR] has recently begun to drop in price. From the diagram below, you can see that the price has quickly dropped within about one month to where it is at now. It could mean that vendors are trying to get rid of the current stock quickly, but we'll have to wait and see what will happen with these Mobile 64's.
AMD Athlon 64 (754) Mobile 3200+ 1MB
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PrinceGaz - Saturday, October 29, 2005 - link
"One of the 64-bit Semprons that caught our attention was the 2800+ Palermo core with 256MB L2 cache"A processor with that much cache would catch anyones attention :)
cryptonomicon - Saturday, October 29, 2005 - link
ah beat me to itJarredWalton - Monday, October 31, 2005 - link
Okay, fixed now - I thought someone had already corrected it. Though, I'd really love such a CPU for that price. :DMikeyJ79 - Saturday, October 29, 2005 - link
Those 3800+ and 4000+ processors are looking more tempting by the week, though I would probably still get a cheaper model at this point. That socket 754 3700+ at ~$178 looks like an interesting buy for someone already stuck on that socket. Soon there may be the Mobile 4000+ with the Newark core which would be nice for current socket 754 users who are able to use it in their desktops. I doubt the price for it would be all that welcoming, however.coomar - Saturday, October 29, 2005 - link
the new skt 939 opteron's are creating an insane buzz, the better ones are doing 3.0+ ghz on airkmmatney - Saturday, October 29, 2005 - link
Has anyone tried a mobile Sempron with 1 MB cache:http://www.shentech.com/smn3000bix2ba.html">http://www.shentech.com/smn3000bix2ba.html
Looks very interesting....
MikeyJ79 - Saturday, October 29, 2005 - link
I wonder how they got one of those? ....LOLTo their credit, though, they get the cache spec right further down in the listing. A 1MB L2 cache would mean it's not a Sempron anymore! :P
kmmatney - Saturday, October 29, 2005 - link
I'm reall tempted to get a mobile Athlon 64 - 1 MB cache for around $100. Are there any benchmarks anywhere for the mobile Athlons used in a desktop?