Olaf van der Spek wrote:
On Apr 4, 2005 3:33 PM, Andrew P. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Gareth Bailey wrote:
Thanks. Can anyone else comment on the following points?:
The 754 Sempron:
- Will run in FreeBSD 4.11 i386?
- Will not be faster than Sempron socket A?
Sempron cores are identical in Socket A and
Socket 754 versions. Both support only 32-bit
Are you sure?
The s754 versions have an on die memory controller and a K8 core
(although with disabled 64-bit mode), which should make it
significantly faster then the K7 based Sempron on sA.
Yeah, it appears I got a wrong idea from some poor
article. As a matter of fact, Sempron/sA is based
on Barton core, while Sempron/s754 is a K8 sister.
The latter has an on-chip memory controller and
SSE2 instruction set supported. They are pretty
same in all other aspects though, and I still
suppose the perfomance margin is negligible.
http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/ProductInformation/0,,30_118_11599_11604,00.html
Sempron/754 might be a little faster than
it's Socket A version - but that's _only_
because of the chipsets for Socket 754 are
more advanced than Socket A ones. I would
generally recommend using Sempron/754, as
you could upgrade to Athlon 64 later and
FreeBSD/x64 then. On the other hand, s754
will be deprecated in a few years in favour
of s939.
Even for Sempron?
Yeah, it has been announced a few times, that
Sempron/s939 will be available somewhen in 2005
"as market requires":
http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/ProductInformation/0,,30_118_608,00.html
Best wishes,
Andrew P.
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