So I'm looking at the tech specs of these on paper, and apart from the Athlon XP coming in 333mhz and 400mhz FSB variants, they don't look to be different at all. Is the Sempron actually the faster chip as the speed rating would seem to imply?
I think AMD used different markings on Athlons and Semprons, Athlon rating was meant to be compared to Pentium and Sempron to Celeron. Those two processors are the exactly same thing, just with different branding.
So you could build a system around either one and they would be exactly the same in benchmarks, right? You would just buy whichever one was cheapest.
In this case it certainly seems so, on CPU-World http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/K7/AMD-Sempron% … A3300DKV4E.html it says that Sempron 3300+ was only made for OEM usage, and is the exact same processor as the Athlon 3200+.
