Surprisingly the Sempron 3400+ costs 135$ at Newegg.
In comparison an Athlon64 2800+ is 120$.
The Sempron 3400+ has a clock speed of 2Ghz/256K L2 cache.
A64 2800+ has a clock speed of 1.8Ghz/512K L2 cache.
Under these circumstances, i'd say you won't be saving with the Sempron 3400+. The regular A64 2800+ would be the better buy. The lower-end Sempron 2500+/2600+ models though are quite cheap/economical and available here in India as of now.
Overclocking would be a different story though - the Sempron 64's 90nm process would offer it an edge over the 130nm process of the A64. But that again would require a really good motherboard to take advantage of it - ruling out the economical factor.
Socket 939 prices have dropped quite a bit. You can get a decent Socket 939 package comprising the A64 3000+ & Asus A8V deluxe(AGP)/Asus A8N-E(PCI-E) for around ~ 13K/13.6K. I guess that would leave him only 2K for a single 512MB stick
. But hopefully by december, prices should get better.
In comparison an Athlon64 2800+ is 120$.
The Sempron 3400+ has a clock speed of 2Ghz/256K L2 cache.
A64 2800+ has a clock speed of 1.8Ghz/512K L2 cache.
Under these circumstances, i'd say you won't be saving with the Sempron 3400+. The regular A64 2800+ would be the better buy. The lower-end Sempron 2500+/2600+ models though are quite cheap/economical and available here in India as of now.
Overclocking would be a different story though - the Sempron 64's 90nm process would offer it an edge over the 130nm process of the A64. But that again would require a really good motherboard to take advantage of it - ruling out the economical factor.
Socket 939 prices have dropped quite a bit. You can get a decent Socket 939 package comprising the A64 3000+ & Asus A8V deluxe(AGP)/Asus A8N-E(PCI-E) for around ~ 13K/13.6K. I guess that would leave him only 2K for a single 512MB stick
. But hopefully by december, prices should get better.