[olug] Sempron or Athlon?

[Christopher R. White]

My personal experience between the two is that the athlons outperform 
semprons every time due to additional cache and other stuff at the core 
that I don't really understand!

Just my $0.02 worth

Chris from Kearney

Neal Rauhauser wrote:
>
>  My trusty Athlon 850 finally gave out about a week ago and I replaced 
> it with a Sempron 2600. I installed the amd64 version of FreeBSD 6.0 
> and this thing is an absolute rocket compared to anything else I've 
> ever owned. I've gotten over the 'hating change' part of the operation 
> and I'm starting to like how quickly things scroll by while this 
> machine is compiling.
>
>  I'm considering replacing my Athlon 2000 desktop with a 64 bit 
> system, but I don't know if I'm going to do a Sempron or an Athlon. 
> Can anyone comment on the performance difference between the two 
> processor types?
>
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