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Info on amd semprons

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  • 13-01-2005 7:36pm
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    neon_glows
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    my aunt is considering buying a PC and i want to advise her on it, the specs ar okay on this machine except it has a sempron 2800, now i know semprons are similiar to celerons but in comparison terms what is a sempron 2800 equal to perforamce wise when comparing it against a pentium 4?


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    Thordon
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    Unless your aunt is into gaming, the sempron would do fine, the Sempron actually beats some versions of the p4 in this: http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/20041221/cpu_charts-15.html , thats a gaming benchmark, but its still a good measure.


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    neon_glows
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    Her son is expecting to use it for gaming, they have been looking at PC's on dell and other places at extremely high prices, how ever i came across a philips PC being sold by the esb or something in the news paper for €599 coming with everything she is looking for and all that needs to be added is a decent grafix card and possibly another stick of ram!


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    neon_glows
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    sorry to be a bother but the sempron cpu isnt there only the amd athlon proccessors!


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    Invader Zim
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    It's fine, te g. card is the most important factor for games these days.

    The main CPU is mostly used for AI etc, the graphics card is incharge of the intensive stuff like textures.


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    neon_glows
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    cool thanks zim, ill be telling her to get it so!


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    jozi
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    You may want to check that the pc has a agp (or pci-X or -E what ever it should be) port if your going to put a gfx card in, unless your going to do with a pci one.

    Jozi


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    RicardoSmith
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    AFAIK the ESB on doesn't have AGP, it just has onboard VGA. So rubbish for games. Also they don't come with a Windows CD.


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