lf: nicest system for gaming @ $350 or less - NS4Sale

treid · 12-04-2006, 06:02 PM

post your system here and i will get back to you

johnn · 12-04-2006, 06:23 PM

AMD Sempron3100+ 64 prossesor 550 watt duel fan power supply,768 megs ddr ram,dvd burner /reader,17 inch nec monitor
altec lansing speakers with sub,wirerless keyboard and optical mouse windows xp 64 for testing 80 gig hard drive.nvidea 5500 video card with tv out a great system room for upgrades . throwing in tv/video in card with all cables. ill let it go for 375

treid · 12-04-2006, 07:05 PM

im not much of an amd guy, but i know that sempron is basically athlons little brother, but is it like celeron to pentium 4, cause celerons are terribleeeee lol.

Rednecktech · 12-04-2006, 07:29 PM

Semprons eat celerons for breakfast in that era

Semicidal · 12-04-2006, 07:42 PM

I see he wants something like this:
Intel core 2 duo 2.6Ghz
4 Gb RAM
2x 150Gb Raptors in RAID0
2X 8800GTX in SLI
Blow job.

For 375, dont get TOO picky.

treid · 12-04-2006, 08:21 PM

im not, i was just saying i didnt know how good they were, i was thinking more like a p4 2.4 or something like that, most likely 478. Ill ask him about that sempron and see what he says

johnn · 12-04-2006, 08:29 PM

well I have read all the replies and I dont know what to say.I have run many games on this system and never had a problem.I am curently playing nfs carbon great graphics and no problems what so ever.Let me know if you want it

jas8522 · 12-05-2006, 02:28 PM

Just for the record, unless you overclock a P4 2.4, that Sempron will outperform the P4. Best way to think about it is as follows:

The Athlon XP 3000+ performed approximately equivalent to the P4 2.6c in some tests and equivalent to the P4 3.0c in others. Since the Sempron is based off the original Athlon XP architecture with slight improvements (last I heard... someone correct me if I'm wrong), then the Sempron 3100+ will likely perform approximately equivalent to a P4 3.0!

Jordan

HappyTux · 12-05-2006, 04:44 PM

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Originally Posted by jas8522

Just for the record, unless you overclock a P4 2.4, that Sempron will outperform the P4. Best way to think about it is as follows:

The Athlon XP 3000+ performed approximately equivalent to the P4 2.6c in some tests and equivalent to the P4 3.0c in others. Since the Sempron is based off the original Athlon XP architecture with slight improvements (last I heard... someone correct me if I'm wrong), then the Sempron 3100+ will likely perform approximately equivalent to a P4 3.0!

Jordan

This would be true of a socket 462 Sempron this one here should be even better as it is based on the Athlon64 core. It would give you more registers to use even running at 32bit although you need 64bit OS to get full use of them and the memory controller, be most likely a 90nm die size therefore running cooler, have depending on the core in it support for SSE3 instructions, faster FSB and many other things I am probably forgetting at the moment. Seems like a decent price for a fairly nice system.

haveblue · 12-05-2006, 05:59 PM

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Originally Posted by HappyTux

This would be true of a socket 462 Sempron this one here should be even better as it is based on the Athlon64 core. It would give you more registers to use even running at 32bit although you need 64bit OS to get full use of them and the memory controller, be most likely a 90nm die size therefore running cooler, have depending on the core in it support for SSE3 instructions, faster FSB and many other things I am probably forgetting at the moment. Seems like a decent price for a fairly nice system.

I'd say it's probably not 90nm, based on the video card. I'd say, with that video card, the cpu is probably S754, which would have been pre-90nm. Also, no SSE3, but that's not going to make much of a difference.

HappyTux · 12-05-2006, 11:37 PM

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Originally Posted by haveblue

I'd say it's probably not 90nm, based on the video card. I'd say, with that video card, the cpu is probably S754, which would have been pre-90nm. Also, no SSE3, but that's not going to make much of a difference.

Certainly can be here's a Google search if you want to see for yourself.

http://www.google.com/search?q=sempr...UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

treid · 12-09-2006, 03:27 AM

Williams · 12-10-2006, 10:10 AM

the 5500 video card, what size. 128, 64?

Mattjslaunwhite · 12-10-2006, 10:17 AM

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Originally Posted by haveblue

I'd say it's probably not 90nm, based on the video card. I'd say, with that video card, the cpu is probably S754, which would have been pre-90nm. Also, no SSE3, but that's not going to make much of a difference.

my old sempron 2800+ was a 754 AND had SSE-3

treid · 12-13-2006, 07:13 PM

Bump.. come on people my buddy really needs this