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by 1wobby1

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I have a couple of old CPU's & was wondering how they compair to each other, 1: P4 1.7Ghz & 2: AMD Sempron 2500 So please let me know what you think

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Rob

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by older mycroft

The P4 1.7GHz would be comparable to an AMD Athlon 1.33GHz - not the Sempron 2500.

So, in terms of clock speed, the Sempron 2500 is the faster chip.

However the Sempron is a cut-down (restricted) version of the Athlon, usually intended for mobile applications.

Intel chips tend to be more robust for video applications.

They'll both require their own motherboards since the socket type is different.

Not much more to say really.

by leddok

the front side bus and the caches are different. (For example Sempron has almost always only 333MHz FSB, P4 are in the majority of cases faster clocked.)Furthermore they have different energy-saving programs (AMD: Cool n'quiet, pentium: intel-Speed-Step Technology) and work with different voltages an different wattage.(P4 needs more Power)

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