[ale] Socket A Processors

[James Sumners]

AMD Athlon XP product information:
http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/ProductInformation/0,,30_118_1260_3734%5E11672,00.html
(Pretty table)

According to the "Compare Processor Specifications" link on
http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/ProductInformation/0,,30_118_11599,00.html
all Socket A Semprons have a 333Mhz bus speed and all but one model
have 256K of L2 cache.

I've been dreaming of buying an Athlon XP 3200 the past few days so I
have been reading all of this stuff. That is only reason I said
anything. The Sempron is not a worthwhile investment if you currently
have an Athlon XP. They are not identical unless you opt for the most
expensive one; and then it is only identical to the low end XP.

Unless I missed something, all of the 266Mhz XPs in your second link,
except 1, are MPs (mobile processors). They cut down on some features
to save power (battery life).

On 4/1/06, Calvin Harrigan <charriglists at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> James Sumners wrote:
>
> >If you consider having a slower bus speed and smaller L2 cache identical, sure.
> >
> >On 3/31/06, Calvin Harrigan <charriglists at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Keith Hopkins wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>>On the plus side: "From a hardware and user standpoint, the Socket-A
> >>>>Semprons were essentially renamed Athlon-XP desktop CPUs."
> >>>>(Wikipedia:Sempron)
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>Hate to disagree with the all-knowing-wikipedia, but the (sockets-A)
> >>>sempron is to the XP as the celeron is to the pentium.  More like a
> >>>duron replacement, except that the sempron family extends into the
> >>>64-bit world.
> >>>
> >>>--
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> >>> Keith
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> >>I think wikipedia is right on the technical specs and you are right on
> >>the marketing.  The sempron came out almost simultaneously with the 64
> >>bit athlons to replace the duron as the low end AMD.  But the
> >>specifications were identical to the XP  thoroughbred core.
> >>
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> The bus speeds were the same, 166 double pumped to 333.  Not all Athlons
> were this high, a lot only got to 266.  The L2 cache was the same 256K,
> the only XP to have more was the barton core, which had 512K.  The
> sempron has a similar core as the more popular Thoroughbred and Palomino
> cores.  Perhaps you are confusing the sempron with duron, not the same...
>
> http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/127
> http://www.cpu-world.com/info/AMD/Athlon-model-number.html
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James Sumners
http://james.roomfullofmirrors.com/

"All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts
pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it
is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become
drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted."

Missionaria Protectiva, Text QIV (decto)
CH:D 59