Reply 42680 of 53295, by HanSolo
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gerry wrote on 2022-02-21, 11:20:RetroPC_King wrote on 2022-02-21, 04:31:This is what retro hardware I got: ASUS A7V880 VIA KT880 motherboard + AMD Sempron 2400+ 1.667 GHz CPU with it's AMD stock coole […]
This is what retro hardware I got:
ASUS A7V880 VIA KT880 motherboard + AMD Sempron 2400+ 1.667 GHz CPU with it's AMD stock cooler (AVC AV112C86) and MB I/O Shield
AMD Sempron 2600+ 1.6GHz 128KB L2 (rev. D) Socket 754 CPU with cooler
..Any opinions about what I got?
solid enough performers with the early mid 2000's stuff there, these single core sempron's are sometimes neglected for being out of step with the advent of the dual core era and all the exciting 775 stuff but i think they're still good 😀
I built myself a S754-Sempron 2600+ system in early 2006 as my main system (Upgrade from an overclocked Tualatin-Celeron). At that time the S754 was already outdated but in comparison it was pretty inexpensive compared to every S939-system. And the Semprons were supposed to overclock quite good, so I took that route.
My Sempron ran stable at 2400 Mhz (which is 50% over the original clock) but then I had to underclock the RAM. The best overall performance was at 2160 Mhz with tight memory timings. Quake 3 ran 40% faster compared to original settings! 😁
That was the last time I did some serious overclocking.. And this was my first AMD-system since the 386/40 😀 I skipped the Socket-A era with the Tualatin.