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Are Semprons inchangable onto Athlon motherboards?
That is, could a great deal on a Sempron during the building of a new system lead me to spend those dollars in the present on something else, with the plan to later throttle up the processor to an Athlon (64?) using the same motherboard and memory? Or are the architectures too different and it's a no starter from the get go? TBerk |
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Are Semprons inchangable onto Athlon motherboards?
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That is, could a great deal on a Sempron during the building of a new system lead me to spend those dollars in the present on something else, with the plan to later throttle up the processor to an Athlon (64?) using the same motherboard and memory? Or are the architectures too different and it's a no starter from the get go? TBerk There are two different Semprons. One for socket A and one for socket 754. You would need the 754 to upgrade to A64, but you could also OC the Sempron like they did in the following link: http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu...n-3100-oc.html and then in a couple years upgrade to a socket 939, or whatever they have at that time. |
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Are Semprons inchangable onto Athlon motherboards?
T wrote:
That is, could a great deal on a Sempron during the building of a new system lead me to spend those dollars in the present on something else, with the plan to later throttle up the processor to an Athlon (64?) using the same motherboard and memory? Or are the architectures too different and it's a no starter from the get go? TBerk Socket A ----462 pin Socket 754---754 pin Socket 939---939 pin Semprons, up to 3000+, will work on the same motherboards as the Athlon XP's (socket A, 333 bus speed). Motherboard should have a resent bios update. Socket A will be slowly fading out as the socket 754 takes it's place. Sempron 3100+ works on the newer socket 754. So be willing to spend about $180+tax for a motherboard/CPU combo that will support future Athlon 64 cpus. The only advantage socket 939 has over the 754 is a better memory intereface. |
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Are Semprons inchangable onto Athlon motherboards?
T wrote:
That is, could a great deal on a Sempron during the building of a new system lead me to spend those dollars in the present on something else, with the plan to later throttle up the processor to an Athlon (64?) using the same motherboard and memory? Or are the architectures too different and it's a no starter from the get go? TBerk Socket A ----462 pin Socket 754---754 pin Socket 939---939 pin Semprons, up to 3000+, will work on the same motherboards as the Athlon XP's (socket A, 333 bus speed). Motherboard should have a resent bios update. Socket A will be slowly fading out as the socket 754 takes it's place. Sempron 3100+ works on the newer socket 754. So be willing to spend about $180+tax for a motherboard/CPU combo that will support future Athlon 64 cpus. The only advantage socket 939 has over the 754 is a better memory intereface. |
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