Socket-939 Semprons

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Hello everyone,

Has anyone ever seen a Socket-939 Sempron in the wild?

They are not (yet?) mentioned on AMD's site.

http://www.amd.com/us-en/Corporate/VirtualPressRoom/0,,51_104_609,00.html

But, according to AnandTech, two S939 Semprons should be available
now, a 1.8GHz+128KB part and a 1.8 GHz+256KB part.

http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2476&p=2

As far as I can tell, a S939 E6-stepping (i.e. SSE3+AMD64) Sempron
is an Athlon64 with only 256KB (or 128KB) L2 cache. If 256KB cache
shaves approx. $50 off the price, then I can live with 256KB.

What do you all think?
 
Hello everyone,

Has anyone ever seen a Socket-939 Sempron in the wild?

They are not (yet?) mentioned on AMD's site.

http://www.amd.com/us-en/Corporate/VirtualPressRoom/0,,51_104_609,00.html

But, according to AnandTech, two S939 Semprons should be available
now, a 1.8GHz+128KB part and a 1.8 GHz+256KB part.

http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2476&p=2

As far as I can tell, a S939 E6-stepping (i.e. SSE3+AMD64) Sempron
is an Athlon64 with only 256KB (or 128KB) L2 cache. If 256KB cache
shaves approx. $50 off the price, then I can live with 256KB.

What do you all think?
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To the best of my knowledge the only place that you can currently
purchase a Socket 939 Sempron processor is through HP with their
dx5150 business computer. As AMD's largest customer HP often gets
first pick of AMD products (much like how Dell often gets first pick
of Intel products). The chips should be more widely available in the
near future, maybe a month or two.

Otherwise everything else seems correct. For the moment there are
only two speed grades of Socket 939 Sempron chips, both running at
1.8GHz. The 3200+ model comes with the 256KB of cache and the 3000+
model comes with 128KB of cache. The difference in pricing between
these chips with HP's customizations for their dx5150 is only $20,
though I'm not sure if that necessarily reflects what we'll see when
it comes to street pricing.
 
Hello everyone,

Has anyone ever seen a Socket-939 Sempron in the wild?

They are not (yet?) mentioned on AMD's site.

http://www.amd.com/us-en/Corporate/VirtualPressRoom/0,,51_104_609,00.html

But, according to AnandTech, two S939 Semprons should be available
now, a 1.8GHz+128KB part and a 1.8 GHz+256KB part.

http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2476&p=2

As far as I can tell, a S939 E6-stepping (i.e. SSE3+AMD64) Sempron
is an Athlon64 with only 256KB (or 128KB) L2 cache. If 256KB cache
shaves approx. $50 off the price, then I can live with 256KB.

What do you all think?
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My personal take: losing half the L2 cache for a saving of $50. on the
total price of a system is err, nuts.... but maybe that's just me??:-)
When an Athlon64 3000+ s939 is going for $146. at NewEgg, it doesn't seem
to make sense to me for the DIYers.

Is AMD really going to sell those Semprons boxed? It's always looked more
like an OEM chip to me... to get price differentiation for the bottom end
market segment.
 
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