[NTLUG:Discuss] Sempron discussion after Sep 18 meeting

[Pat Regan]

On Mon, 20 Sep 2004, JD wrote:

> >Thank you for pointing this out.  When I saw word of the Sempron, I just
> >ignored it thinking "eh, a new Duron" :p.  Interesting that the high end
> >Sempron is a castrated Athlon 64 :).
>
> I think AMD choose the name of the new chip to sound similar to the Intel
> Celeron.
>
> The Sempron chip is *not* a high end processor.   At least, the one that I
> purchased
> wasn't very high-end.  The combo [ECS board and a 2.2G CPU] was all of
> $59.  Throw in
> a decent fan and 256M of 2700 DDR memory - I walked out of Fry's for under
> $125.

I'm sorry, I didn't mean to make it sound like I thought the Sempron was
"high end."  What I meant was that I was surprised to find that the top of
the line Sempron seems to be based on the 64 bit core, as opposed to
pretty much just a rename for the Duron.

Pat