AMD Sempron 2600+ for Socket 754 - "OC Test"

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AMD’s new solution also looks preferable to the Celeron D family, the competing inexpensive processors from Intel. The Semprons are generally faster in a majority of applications than Celeron D models of the same price.

Another appealing aspect of junior Sempron for Socket 754 models is their excellent overclockability. Our tests show that Semprons on the new 90nm Palermo core can add up about half their frequency at overclocking, to clock rates about 2.5GHz. For example, we managed to give our Sempron 2600+ a 56% frequency boost and the performance of the system subsequently grew by 35% in average and became comparable to that of systems with Pentium 4 3.4E and Athlon 64 3500+ processors. In other words, overclocking helps to increase the speed of the platform with an inexpensive Sempron for Socket 754 processor to the level of midrange computer systems...

Leggi: http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu...on-2600_4.html

Veramente un gran peccato che la nuova generazione di Sempron, siano dotati di soli "128 Kb Cache" di secondo livello; certamente un Sempron economico come il 2600+ su Socket 754, ma con 512Kb di Cache in "OC", sarebbe stato nettamente superiore ad un Athlon64 e a un Pentium4 di ultima generazione.