View Poll Results: Which CPU would you pick?
- Voters
- 49. You may not vote on this poll
-
AMD Sempron 2800+ 1.8GHz (1600FSB/128K)
39 79.59% -
Intel Celeron-D 2.40GHz (533FSB/256K)
10 20.41%
Results 1 to 25 of 25
-
07-27-2005, 03:43 AM #1Disabled
- Join Date
- Jun 2005
- Posts
- 109
Celeron-D 2.4 or AMD Sempron 2800
Which would you rather pick up if both were offered at the same price?
AMD Sempron 2800+ 1.8GHz
OR
Intel Celeron-D 2.40GHz
1GB Memory
80GB Sata
-
07-27-2005, 03:47 AM #2Web Hosting Master
- Join Date
- Jun 2003
- Location
- UK
- Posts
- 6,616
AMD for me
RusRuss Foster - Industry Curmudgeon
Freelance Sysadmin for Hire - email vaserv@gmail.com
-
07-27-2005, 04:01 AM #3Web Hosting Master
- Join Date
- Apr 2001
- Location
- United Kingdom
- Posts
- 1,651
Sempron for sure.
█ Coreix™ | your solution™ www.coreix.net - 08000226734 - ISO27001 Certified
█ Dedicated Servers - Colocation - Secure Cages - Enterprise & Managed Solutions - Clustering - LoadBalancing - High Availability - Hosted Exchange 2007
█ NEW Tier III London DC with power sourced from 100% renewable sources, N+N UPS, N+1 Chillers and CRAC units, Mist Fire Suppression, Biometric and Man Trap security to all data areas
-
07-27-2005, 04:46 AM #4Disabled
- Join Date
- Jun 2005
- Posts
- 109
What Celeron .. if any .. would you pick over the Sempron?
-
07-27-2005, 04:48 AM #5Junior Guru Wannabe
- Join Date
- Apr 2003
- Posts
- 72
None... AMD's have much more power then Celerons... Even the Durons are more powerful.
Sad isn't it?
-
07-27-2005, 06:32 AM #6Aspiring Evangelist
- Join Date
- Feb 2005
- Location
- Montreal, PQ
- Posts
- 355
AMD here as well! They rock the boat.
AMD Sempron 2800+ 1.8GHz (1600FSB/128K)
-
07-27-2005, 10:28 AM #7WHT Addict
- Join Date
- Apr 2005
- Posts
- 124
No Durons are not even close to a Celeron D. Plus I would go with the Celeron D before I went with a 128k cache Sempron. But if your talking about the 256k Sempron then It would be a toss up for me then.
-
07-27-2005, 11:49 AM #8Web Hosting Master
- Join Date
- Jun 2003
- Location
- San Francisco
- Posts
- 623
I would go for Celeron because I don't trust the cheap desktop motherboards for AMD processors.
Every AMD desktop I used (include a recent one from HP) had some kind of problem - firewire, network or something. the processor is great, but the chipset sucks. Sempron is the low end AMD, which means the system is probably based on a cheap motherboard chipset (Via?), while most low end Celeron uses the 815 chipset. I would rather give up some speed for the peace of mind.
-
07-27-2005, 11:56 AM #9Aspiring Evangelist
- Join Date
- Feb 2005
- Posts
- 379
Definately the Sempron.
Regards,
datruesurfer
-
07-27-2005, 12:56 PM #10Aspiring Evangelist
- Join Date
- May 2004
- Posts
- 398
AMD for me..
You'll never go wrong with AMD..
AMD Rulez!
-
07-27-2005, 02:37 PM #11Web Hosting Master
- Join Date
- Mar 2001
- Posts
- 2,057
Originally posted by riverpast
Sempron is the low end AMD
-
07-27-2005, 05:01 PM #12WHT Addict
- Join Date
- Jan 2005
- Posts
- 157
AMD is better in every benchmark for Intel, and they cost less. The dual core opteron has a 20% performance edge over the Intel whatever it is. Intel makes expensive, low performance processors compared to AMD.
I'll always take AMD over Intel as long as it is a fair comparison.
-
07-27-2005, 07:31 PM #13Retired Moderator
- Join Date
- Jul 2003
- Location
- Earth
- Posts
- 1,700
Re: Celeron-D 2.4 or AMD Sempron 2800
Originally posted by RajH
AMD Sempron 2800+ 1.8GHz
-
07-29-2005, 01:31 AM #14Disabled
- Join Date
- Jul 2005
- Location
- Orlando, FLORIDA
- Posts
- 6
If you're smart go with the semp. its obviously, look at the votes.. heh
-
07-29-2005, 12:01 PM #15Predatory Poster
- Join Date
- Jul 2003
- Location
- Goleta, CA
- Posts
- 5,566
Originally posted by riverpast
I would go for Celeron because I don't trust the cheap desktop motherboards for AMD processors.
Every AMD desktop I used (include a recent one from HP) had some kind of problem - firewire, network or something. the processor is great, but the chipset sucks. Sempron is the low end AMD, which means the system is probably based on a cheap motherboard chipset (Via?), while most low end Celeron uses the 815 chipset. I would rather give up some speed for the peace of mind.Patron: I'd like my free lunch please.
Cafe Manager: Free lunch? Did you read the fine print stating it was an April Fool's joke.
Patron: I read the same way I listen, I ignore the parts I don't agree with. I'm suing you for false advertising.
Cafe Owner: Is our lawyer still working pro bono?
-
07-29-2005, 12:31 PM #16WHT Addict
- Join Date
- Mar 2004
- Posts
- 158
All together now, "Don't buy prefab $300 desktops from HP, Dell, or any other megacorp."
And I'd for sure go with the AMD Semperon over the Celeron D. For you numbers enthusiasts, here's a good rundown: Tom's Hardware Mega-CPU roundup.
-
07-29-2005, 12:43 PM #17Web Hosting Master
- Join Date
- Jun 2003
- Location
- San Francisco
- Posts
- 623
Originally posted by pixelized
HP uses crappy components it's no wonder the motherboard sucked. Long as you buy quality support components ie motherboard video card hard drive RAM you can have a nice system. It's when you start cheaping out on important factors that you get bottle necks.
And if doesn't matter which vendor it is from. If it uses Via chipset, I would not use it for a server.
-
07-29-2005, 01:02 PM #18Disabled
- Join Date
- Apr 2005
- Location
- Atlanta, Georgia
- Posts
- 521
FYI, the socket 754 paris core sempron 3100+ is 1.8ghz
-
07-29-2005, 02:03 PM #19Retired Moderator
- Join Date
- Jul 2003
- Location
- Earth
- Posts
- 1,700
Originally posted by TulipSystems
FYI, the socket 754 paris core sempron 3100+ is 1.8ghz
Sorry, but I wonder what does this has to do...
-
07-29-2005, 04:18 PM #20Disabled
- Join Date
- Apr 2005
- Location
- Atlanta, Georgia
- Posts
- 521
Originally posted by Apolo
Sorry, but I wonder what does this has to do...
-
07-29-2005, 05:51 PM #21Web Hosting Master
- Join Date
- Nov 2003
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
- Posts
- 921
Celeron 2.4 hands down.
Adam - AQORN
Official OpenStack Foundation Member, Corporate Sponsor and AI Research Team
Our Clients: Facebook | Red Hat | Starbucks | AT&T | HPE | NVIDIA | CrowdStrike | Cisco | Juniper | SAP | Autodesk | SUSE | Ubuntu
-
07-29-2005, 05:56 PM #22Disabled
- Join Date
- Jun 2005
- Posts
- 109
Originally posted by MrManager
Celeron 2.4 hands down.
Your reason why?
-
07-29-2005, 06:07 PM #23Retired Moderator
- Join Date
- Jul 2003
- Location
- Earth
- Posts
- 1,700
Originally posted by TulipSystems
the question was where the OP came up with 1.8ghz, I was just saying that it's the sempron 3100+ that is 1.8ghz and not the 2800+
Edit: I was expecting an answer like that from OP, hence my question regarding your post.Last edited by Apolo; 07-29-2005 at 06:11 PM.
-
07-29-2005, 07:09 PM #24Web Hosting Master
- Join Date
- Nov 2003
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
- Posts
- 921
Originally posted by RajH
Your reason why?
In 1U environments, cooling is always a concern for me and when you have a choice between a hot chip and a cooler one, the benefits extend beyond benchmark performance where the lids are typically off the case.
Plus, we have not had a CPU failure yet so that kind of reliability plays into things as well.Adam - AQORN
Official OpenStack Foundation Member, Corporate Sponsor and AI Research Team
Our Clients: Facebook | Red Hat | Starbucks | AT&T | HPE | NVIDIA | CrowdStrike | Cisco | Juniper | SAP | Autodesk | SUSE | Ubuntu
-
07-30-2005, 01:44 PM #25Web Hosting Master
- Join Date
- Oct 2000
- Posts
- 1,769
Depends a lot on which motherboard you use as well. With the Celeron, you can get a motherboard that supports dual channel RAM which may give you better performance in terms of memory bandwidth. The Sempron uses the Socket 754 boards which do not support dual channel RAM.
[QuickPacket™] [AS46261]
Located in Ashburn, VA, Los Angeles, CA, Chicago, IL, and Manchester, UK
Since 2003 - 20+ Years! Dedicated Servers, Co-location, DDoS Filtering, Data Backup & More!