[ale] Socket A Processors

[Calvin Harrigan]

James Sumners wrote:

>If you consider having a slower bus speed and smaller L2 cache identical, sure.
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>On 3/31/06, Calvin Harrigan <charriglists at bellsouth.net> wrote:
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>>Keith Hopkins wrote:
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>>>>On the plus side: "From a hardware and user standpoint, the Socket-A
>>>>Semprons were essentially renamed Athlon-XP desktop CPUs."
>>>>(Wikipedia:Sempron)
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>>>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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>>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


Calvin...