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Another Gift to Overclockers: AMD Sempron 3100+ on E Core Revision (page 10)

Category: CPU

by Ilya Gavrichenkov

[ 04/04/2005 | 06:06 PM ]

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Well, the Sempron 3100+ on the new E core revision of Palermo core overclocked to 2.68GHz is quite impressive. It feels quite at home among the top Athlon 64 and Pentium 4 CPU models. In fact, it would be fair enough to state that the overclocked new Sempron 3100+ processor can on average reach the performance level of Athlon 64 3800+ and even Athlon 64 4000+.

However, we shouldn’t disregard the dependence of overclocked Sempron 3100+ performance on the type of applications it is running. Foe example in games, this processor works about as fast as Athlon 64 3800+ leaving behind all Intel solutions. It copes with audio and video encoding faster than any of the Athlon 64 CPUs, but can’t catch up with the top rivals from Intel. The same situation can be observed during final rendering, too. In computational tasks the overclocked Sempron sets new performance records defeating all Athlon 64 and Pentium 4 CPUs. And during image processing, the Sempron processor working at 2.68GHz is at the level of Athlon 64 3800+.

However, if we take into account the price of this CPU, which is now set around $110-$120, then its overclocking performance will definitely be worth the money you pay for it and even more.