939-foot Semprons from HP

Although the AMD Sempron family of processors is only available to end users in 462- and 754-foot enclosures, computer manufacturers can get 939 feet of them.

HP's new AMD-based business desktops, namely dx5150 series includes a Socket 200 motherboard with a Radeon Xpress 939 chipset, however the AMD Sempron 3000+ and 3200+ models are also available according to the list you can view.

AMD is official according to your product catalog however, the Sempron 3000+ is only available on the Socket A and Socket 754 platforms, and the 3200+ does not exist at all. As is well known, the main difference between the Socket 754 and the Socket 939 platform is that while the former can only be acquired with central units equipped with a single-channel memory controller, and the latter with at least so far only two-channel.

An interesting question is what to expect from the new Semprons. It is possible that 939-foot processors with a single-channel memory controller will now be available for easier platform switching, but it is also possible that some Semprons will also receive twice the bandwidth. There are a lot of interesting things happening among AMD's low-end processors these days, such as the latest 3300+ Sempron, which runs at 3100 MHz at 200 MHz higher than its 2+ predecessor, but its second-level cache has halved to just 128 KB.

Those who haven’t read about this before can now be horrified to take the example of the good old Willamette- and Northwood-based, snail-slow Celerons, but luckily AMD’s architecture is different enough to handle even such a large cut. in most cases it can be faster, like its 3100+ mark counterpart. Knowing its performance, we can already be more positive about the "step back": the 128 KB second-level cache and 90 nanometer bandwidth together can result in unprecedented cheapness.