atlon xp seem to have jumped in price and the semprom processors are considerably cheaper. which will give better performance?
I currently own a sempron 2800+ with an 800mhz HT and while I'd rather have this than any pentium, the Xp's have a larger cache size and have a faster operating frequency. Compare these 2 for instance the [bold]AMD Sempron 3100+ Palermo 800MHz HT (400mhz FSB)[/bold] Name Sempron 3100+ Operating Frequency 1.8GHz HT 800MHz L1 Cache 64KB+64KB L2 Cache 256KB Process Type 90 nm Hyper-Transport Support Yes Price 83.00 [bold]AMD Athlon XP 3200+ Barton 400MHz FSB[/bold] Name Athlon XP 3200+ Operating Frequency 2.2GHz FSB 400MHz L1 Cache 64KB+64KB L2 Cache 512KB Process Type 0.13 µm Hyper-Transport Support No Price 183.00 So you are really looking at 2 very different processors with very different strenghts and weaknesses. HT technology "basically" doubles the FSB, so the Sempron is a bit faster in that aspect, the Cache and OF is taken by the XP. It's really all about what you are looking for? Budget? Or still cheap but with that little bit extra. If you wanna take a wonder into the 64 bit world, there's still affordable CPU's.. Check out this [bold]AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Venice 1GHz HT[/bold] Name Athlon 64 3200+ Operating Frequency 2.0GHz HT 1GHz L1 Cache 64KB+64KB L2 Cache 512KB Process Type 90 nm Hyper-Transport Support Yes 64 bit Support Yes Price 154.00 All these prices are from NewEgg BTW
Okay, I went and spit out all this info about These processors, and it got me wondering? Process Type? 90nm? nanometers?? .13µm?? micrometers?? What is this actually describing? And what function does this serve? And why don't they say 130nm just to keep things simple?? A bunch of little querstions, but my only real question is what is a "process type" and why is it refered to in distance?
Thank you. I've spent the last 30 minutes googling and going through wikipedia trying to find it. At last, I can sleep.
