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Lee, Phil, On Friday 23 December 2005 15:08, BandiPat wrote:
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They have changed some things since I last investigated then, but you will notice this is the 754 pin cpu. I wasn't sure they were even doing those still. You don't want that, spring for the full 64bit 939 pin socket. As I mentioned previously, that will allow you to move to the dual core later, when the budget allows.
Previously, when the 64 came out they dropped the Athlon name from the 32bit cpus and renamed them Sempron. It would appear they have carried that name over to the low cost 64bit chips now.
Without knowing anything about these particular processors, it's worth checking out whether the external data paths (busses) are as wide as the primary machine word. I don't know if that's being done with 64 bit processors, but there was a time not all that long ago when external busses could be 16 bits even though the processor architecture was 32-bit. Since memory throughput is a huge factor in computer performance, you don't want to throttle your 64-bit CPU by making it communicate with primary storage in 32-bit slices.
Lee
Randall Schulz