[olug] Sempron or Athlon?

[Neal Rauhauser]

 Looks like the right choices are a Sempron 3400+ with existing 1024m & 
512m DIMMs, or some sort of Athlon64 and adding another 1024m stick ...

  What does something like this cost?


Phil Brutsche wrote:

>Neal Rauhauser wrote:
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>>My chosen Sempron is a socket 754 and definitely a 64 bit chip.
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>All of the new ones are.  A vendor could easily have some old 32-bit
>only Socket 754 chips left, which is why I mentioned it.
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>>Does this dual channel memory thing require the same size modules in
>> the DIMM slots to function?
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>Most of the time, yes.  But I should remind you that Socket 754 CPUs
>*do* *not* support dual-channel memory.
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