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    AMD Sempron = single core turion X2?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Gofishus, Feb 10, 2007.

  1. Gofishus

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    Gofishus, Feb 10, 2007
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    nice review
     
    CeeNote, Feb 11, 2007
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    Well the x2 is only top of the line because it's dual core, we've always known that the cores in the x2 are crappy which is why it runs so much slower than intel's dual core offerings.
     
    odin243, Feb 12, 2007
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    I would hardly say they were crappy, and perform only marginally poorer than the Core duo.
     
    Cheffy, Feb 12, 2007
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    yes what im confused about is that single core x2 should equal turion 64, not a sempron.
     
    Gofishus, Feb 12, 2007
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    There wont be many single core Turion64's. Thats why the Semprons were pushed up to the perfomance range of the Turion. Previously when the Turion MT/ML series existed the Semprons had only 128 or 256k cache. AMD now bumped it up to either 256k or 512k cache. So, essentially the current socket S1 Semprons offer the same performance as a single core Turion.
     
    miner, Feb 13, 2007
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