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Another Gift to Overclockers: AMD Sempron 3100+ on E Core Revision (page 2)

Category: CPU

by Ilya Gavrichenkov

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

AMD Sempron 3100+ Version 3: Closer Look

This is what the new Sempron 3100+ with the E core stepping looks like:

The last two letters of the marking, “BO”, indicate that this is a new core, from the same family as the just reviewed Venice. As you remember, the same processors based on the D core revision were marked with “BA” letters at the end. The rest of the marking abbreviation states that this CPU features 256KB L2 cache, 1.4V Vcore and bears the maximum processor case temperature of 69^oC. In other words, everything remained the same as by the older Sempron processors based on CG and D core revisions.

And this is what the CPU-Z utility says about the newcomer:

As we see, CPU-Z doesn’t know yet about the new Sempron processor core that is why the information it reads about the core is absolutely wrong. It apparently mistakes the core of our Sempron 3100+ CPU for Paris. All other data are correct. In particular, it indicates correctly the 1.8GHz clock frequency of the processor, 256KB L2 cache and recognizes SSE3 instructions support.