AMD Sempron... anyone ever heard of it... likely you have, but how good a processor is this?
my sister bought a new Compaq Presario ()
256 Megs of RAM ()
and an AMD Sempron processor.... it has been operating slowly since purchase and I was wondering if anyone knows why this would be... (Besides the whole Compaq thing and the 256 Meg RAM thing...)

well i know where i can get a sempron and a motherboard for $120. i'm guessing there older chips and i'd say they might be slower. please dont blame it on the amd

a Sampron has slower FSB = front serial Bus speeds than a Athlon does

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Originally posted by atownjoe
AMD Sempron... anyone ever heard of it... likely you have, but how good a processor is this?
my sister bought a new Compaq Presario ()
256 Megs of RAM ()
and an AMD Sempron processor.... it has been operating slowly since purchase and I was wondering if anyone knows why this would be... (Besides the whole Compaq thing and the 256 Meg RAM thing...)

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you do really need more Ram than 256 ..512 or more on the safe side.. but the sampron is akka the old AMD Duron

AMD Sepron processors are intended for use in servers.

IF YOU CAN, get an Athlon 64.

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Originally posted by blade

AMD Sepron processors are intended for use in servers.

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Originally posted by Demz

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Originally posted by blade

AMD Sepron processors are intended for use in servers.

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Not really blade.. there for the low cost user that dont require a lot of speed like us Guru's the Opteron an those are for servers, not the Sampron

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Sempron is the equivilant of the old Durons for the newer processors.

I've got a Sempron. No problems as far as I can see

But a RAM upgrade for your sister's comp might be in order...

the new sempron's are athlon64s without the 64bit features enabled

they're low cost processors, but i think it's quite valuable, depends on what you want to do with it..

The Semprons are actually a mixture of rebadged Althon XP chips and indeed the Athlon 64 with the 64-bit part disabled. They are supposedly the budget range of chips as AMD move towards making the Athlon 64 range their mainstream line of CPU's.

Depending on what Sempron your sister has, you might be able to upgrade to a 64-bit CPU later on down the line, however from the sounds of it, I think the Sempron your sister has is actually one of the rebadged Athlon XP range.

Certainly I think a memory upgrade would be of benefit. The difference between 256Mb and 512Mb is quite noticable. The jump from 512Mb to 1Gb is less so. So another 256Mb of RAM would probably be the cheapest and most noticable upgrade.

Btw, a little know fact is that blade has an Athlon 64. I probably shouldn't have told you this as he likes to keep this fact a closely guarded secret. Cat's out of the bag now blade!!

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Originally posted by blade
AMD Sepron processors are intended for use in servers.

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AMD Athlon MP processors are aimed for server usage... semprons are mostly and widely used in home and office computers... I myself have a Sempron 2800+ (2.0 GHz) clocked to 2.2 GHz (with no extra cooling) and 512 MB of PC3200 DDR ram... the system works incredibly stable and fast...

the downsides about sempron processors are the small L2 cache (256 KB) since athlon xp has 512... so is the FSB smaller (maximum among semprons is 333 MHz) as on the other hand athlon xp has 400 MHz max...

basically what made me chose sempron is that since AMD stopped manufacturing athlon xp processors some time ago (to concentrate on the semprons and athlon 64s), it was impossible for me to get it from anyhere in scandinavia...

and the last thing is of course the most affordable price...

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Originally posted by qune
...and the last thing is of course the most affordable price...

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dodgy Wal-Mart computer... it only had 192 Megs o RAM compared to the sdvertised 256... returning

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Originally posted by atownjoe
dodgy Wal-Mart computer... it only had 192 Megs o RAM compared to the sdvertised 256... returning

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atleast need somewhere between 512 an 1Gig for PC's

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Originally posted by Demz
atleast need somewhere between 512 an 1Gig for PC's

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send me some if ya do blade

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Originally posted by Demz
send me some if ya do blade

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gee thanx an i went all that way to try sell ya XBox to

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Originally posted by atownjoe
dodgy Wal-Mart computer... it only had 192 Megs o RAM compared to the sdvertised 256... returning

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makes sense... she's returning, this one, and if we have the same problem next time, i'll have her know what you said.

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Originally posted by atownjoe
if we have the same problem next time

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Originally posted by lizard.boy

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Originally posted by atownjoe
if we have the same problem next time

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its not a problem its how it works....
laptops usually run that way and so do low end computers. if you ever hear someone saying 64 mb video card or 256 mb video card its because it has that much ram dedicated to it purely for video. generally the higher the ram value the better the performance, but a higher ram on a lower end GPU (graphics processing unit) can still be worse than a lower ram value on a top end card (at the time of writing a high end card would be an ati radion 9800 or a nvidia 5900

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