pet1 Posted September 1, 2005 Share Posted September 1, 2005 I currently have an athlon 2600+. Was wondering if it is worth switching to a sempron 3000+. The one with sse3. The 2600 runs at 2 gigs. The sempron runs at 1.6. I want to get an amd64 3200 venice. But for the price, maybe the sempron is more reasonable, especially if it is an upgrade over the 2600. Your thoughts. Thank You. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/1733-upgrade/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyrana Posted September 1, 2005 Share Posted September 1, 2005 What Athlon is that? An Athlon XP or Athlon 64? (the one you have now) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/1733-upgrade/#findComment-11040 Share on other sites More sharing options...
pet1 Posted September 1, 2005 Author Share Posted September 1, 2005 Athlon xp 2600. Non-64. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/1733-upgrade/#findComment-11046 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyrana Posted September 1, 2005 Share Posted September 1, 2005 Ok... then just so you know, you'd need a new motherboard as well. The only chips with SSE3 aren't socket A unfortunately. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/1733-upgrade/#findComment-11052 Share on other sites More sharing options...
pet1 Posted September 2, 2005 Author Share Posted September 2, 2005 Perhaps you misunderstood my question. Please re-read my original post. I currently have an athlon 2600+. Was wondering if it is worth switching to a sempron 3000+. The one with sse3. The 2600 runs at 2 gigs. The sempron runs at 1.6. I want to get an amd64 3200 venice. But for the price, maybe the sempron is more reasonable, especially if it is an upgrade over the 2600. Your thoughts. Thank You. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/1733-upgrade/#findComment-11098 Share on other sites More sharing options...
slowdiver Posted September 2, 2005 Share Posted September 2, 2005 sempron 3000+ is not socket-compatible to your config? i had an axp2800+ no possiblity to upgrade to the sempron. but maybe they produced a new chip? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/1733-upgrade/#findComment-11215 Share on other sites More sharing options...
pet1 Posted September 2, 2005 Author Share Posted September 2, 2005 Well, I was implying that a new motherboard was expected since socket a and 754 are completely different. My question is... Is it worth switching over to a sempron 3000. My current cpu is an athlon xp 2600. I really want an amd64 3200 venice but I'm not down to spend that much money. So.... the sempron "looks" appealing and it seems to be pretty close in specs to the athlon 64 venice. They both have sse3. The sempron has 256k L2cache, and the athlon64 has 512. Would you consider a sempron 3000 an upgrade over an athlon xp 2600, and how close is the sempron to the athlon 64? Is it worth it? Thank You. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/1733-upgrade/#findComment-11357 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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