Athlon 64 vs. Sempron 64

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I have an Athlon64 3200 and a Sempron64 3300+. Their preformance
numbers are almost identical with the SANDRA CPU Benchmark test. I
thought the Athlon with 512L2 would be much faster. Anyone know of any
other FREE benchmark test to compare systems?
 
I have an Athlon64 3200 and a Sempron64 3300+. Their preformance numbers
are almost identical with the SANDRA CPU Benchmark test. I thought the
Athlon with 512L2 would be much faster. Anyone know of any other FREE
benchmark test to compare systems?
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Time the real applications that are important to you. Benchmarks are only
moderately useful because they make all sorts of assumptions about
workloads that may have nothing to do with the programs that matter to you.

Cache size can make a huge difference in some applications and almost none
in others, the only way to find out is to benchmark the particular
program. It sounds like you are running Windows so there may be no good
way to time a particular program except with a watch (I don't know
anything about Windows so I could be wrong about this). Pick an
application that takes a fairly long time to run so that you can time it
relatively accurately. If you don't have any applications that take a long
time to run then you shouldn't care which one of your systems is faster
because they are both fast enough.
 
I'd suggest winrar in compressing a file, some kind of encoding program, and
perhaps just trying to see which computer can take more multitasking (run
several videos at once and try to surf the web, see which is smoother).
 
It is further alleged that on or about 7 May 2006 11:47:53 -0700, in
alt.comp.hardware.amd.x86-64, the queezy keyboard of "Colinnation"
<[email protected]> spewed the following:

|I have an Athlon64 3200 and a Sempron64 3300+. Their preformance
|numbers are almost identical with the SANDRA CPU Benchmark test. I
|thought the Athlon with 512L2 would be much faster. Anyone know of any
|other FREE benchmark test to compare systems?

http://www.majorgeeks.com/downloads4.html

There are enough benchmarking utilities to keep you occupied for days.
Bottom line is: there is not a nickels worth of difference between the
2 processors.
 
Colinnation said:
Thanks all!!
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Same deal with Video Cards. The cheapest 1 can be on par with models
costing $500 or more. I depends on what you are running and wanting to
do. Some people rather buy an under performing Alien desktop costing
$2,000 dollars just to have car paint and a glowing alien on it. It's
all marketing.
 
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