[olug] Sempron or Athlon?

[Neal Rauhauser]

  Ah, but there is a small matter of a SuSe upgrade which adds another 
$90 or so ... this is sounding good, however :0



Craig Wolf wrote:

>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
>favorite site.  8)
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>Craig Wolf
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>>>>neal at lists.rauhauser.net 12/18/05 2:29 PM >>>
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> Looks like the right choices are a Sempron 3400+ with existing 1024m & 
>512m DIMMs, or some sort of Athlon64 and adding another 1024m stick ...
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>  What does something like this cost?
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>Phil Brutsche wrote:
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>>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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