Battle of the 64-bit Budget CPU - Sempron 64 vs. Celeron D 64 @ Tweaktown

**MIG-31** · Mar 7, 2006, 07:14 AM

While we have covered the high-end crowd of the 64-bit arena, we haven’t touched on what might be the 64-bit revolution for the value and mainstream users. Both AMD and Intel now produce 64-bit budget chips.

AMD’s first budget CPU came in the form of the Duron series back in the Socket A days. This CPU was not only fast, but cheap too. The price in its peak was around $100 AUD for a Duron 750MHz which would power most games you wanted to play. Not only that, but would overclock as well due to the lesser cache memory not getting in the way. Next came the Sempron in Socket A which were basically re-badged AMD Athlon XP Thoroughbred-A cores with less cache.
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Mar 7, 2006, 07:14 AM	#1
MIG-31 HardwareHeaven News Mod Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Nottingham,UK Posts: 56,847 Rep Power: 471 System Specs	Battle of the 64-bit Budget CPU - Sempron 64 vs. Celeron D 64 @ Tweaktown While we have covered the high-end crowd of the 64-bit arena, we haven’t touched on what might be the 64-bit revolution for the value and mainstream users. Both AMD and Intel now produce 64-bit budget chips. AMD’s first budget CPU came in the form of the Duron series back in the Socket A days. This CPU was not only fast, but cheap too. The price in its peak was around $100 AUD for a Duron 750MHz which would power most games you wanted to play. Not only that, but would overclock as well due to the lesser cache memory not getting in the way. Next came the Sempron in Socket A which were basically re-badged AMD Athlon XP Thoroughbred-A cores with less cache. _________________ Read More/Source: Tweaktown __________________ Please Post Your News Submissions Here