Is it worth it ? Upgrade to Sempron

[Lintball]

Ok heres the deal.
I have a:

Compaq
PIII 1 ghz
128mb Ram
Ati Radeon 9250 256mb

it's obvious that i need a new pc...i want to be able to play some newer games with good performance and my half life games with better performance...my mom doesn't want to spend $800 dollars to buy me a pc with an Athlon 64. I know that semprons aren't great chips but would it be worth it to get a pc with a highclocked sempron ?

PIII 1ghz vs. 2800+ - 3000+ Sempron

 

[FghtinIrshNvrDi]

Actually, a Sempron tends to be a fairly nice chip for the budget seeker. It's an Athlon 64 with a crippled L2 cache. I'd recommend a Sempron to anyone, anytime! That's a VERY worthy upgrade.

Ryan

 

[AnthraX]

Make sure you get a Sempron with AMD64. As long as you have that, I too would recommend them.

 

[FghtinIrshNvrDi]

Well, I'm pretty sure he was talking about a socket 754 sempron, which automatically supports 64 bit computing. And also, the socket A semprons didn't go past 2600 or so, did they?

Ryan

 

[AnthraX]

I think the highest Socket A Sempron is either 2600+ or 2800+. Either way, Socket A Semprons aren't worth it.

Any word of Socket 939 Semprons? I'm guessing they'll come out with the Socket AM2 comes out.

 

[blackhawk13]

Is the sempron similar to the Celeron for Pentiums? Hypothetically.

 

[Shumway]

Is the sempron similar to the Celeron for Pentiums? Hypothetically.

Yes but the sempron's beat the crap out of the celeron's

 

[talldude123]

your PC is pretty good right now, as long as its running windows 98. i would only recommend more RAM for games, as your video card has more memory that your PC!

 

[AnthraX]

If you upgrade your processor, you'll have to upgrade your RAM too. If you choose to get the Sempron, I recommend at least 512MB of PC3200.

 

[buyxgmistake]

"Any word of Socket 939 Semprons?"

There out there I have a hp sr1610nx that I recently picked up for 199 after rebates new years day. Its a sempron 3200+(1.8 GHz) socket 939 great 939 starting point for under 200 with windows