[olug] Sempron or Athlon?

Craig Wolf cjwolf at mpsomaha.org
Mon Dec 19 01:50:40 UTC 2005


ASUS A8V-MX Socket 939 VIA K8M800 Micro ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail 
$60
Athlon 64 3200+ Venice 1GHz  $174
MB Uses DDR ram if that is what you have now...All from Newegg...My
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Craig Wolf
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>>> neal at lists.rauhauser.net 12/18/05 2:29 PM >>>

 Looks like the right choices are a Sempron 3400+ with existing 1024m & 
512m DIMMs, or some sort of Athlon64 and adding another 1024m stick ...

  What does something like this cost?


Phil Brutsche wrote:

>Neal Rauhauser wrote:
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>>My chosen Sempron is a socket 754 and definitely a 64 bit chip.
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>All of the new ones are.  A vendor could easily have some old 32-bit
>only Socket 754 chips left, which is why I mentioned it.
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>>Does this dual channel memory thing require the same size modules in
>> the DIMM slots to function?
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>Most of the time, yes.  But I should remind you that Socket 754 CPUs
>*do* *not* support dual-channel memory.
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