CPU/Mobo Sempron or Athlon

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hi checked the benchmark results in tomshardware.com and i found sempron 64 3400+ performs better than athlon 64 3000+. is it true? higher clock speed means better performance? then why should we go for athlon 3000+?

wat is the price of sempron 3400? I planed to upgrade my pc. any suggestions could help. my budget is 10k-11k.
 
i agree that athlon 3000+ has more features than sempron. it doesn't matter what it has. what it gives us is really matter. athlon has higher cache but it looses to sempron 3400 in multitaking benchmark.

i am not using my system for gaming. i am a developer. i need multitasking (dont advice me to go for dual core, i am not afford now) i need to run web server, browser, database, script engine and other tools all at a time.

and also i have tight budget. so, if the price difference is huge for little performance difference why should i go for athlon. i can spend that extra money for memory (necessary for multitasking).

also i think the higher cache hurts the performance of multi tasking, since the cache to be cleared and reloaded during switching between tasks (if i am wrong, plz experts correct me).

so, experts post ur opinion and suggestiions. i have time and want to discuss this before upgrading.

does asrock dual sata mobo support semprom processor or i have to go for socket 754
 
I got the BX Sempron 3100 venice core and its great! OC 50% realy easy, and runs like a puppy... However Bluesword there is one issue, I have yet to find a MoBo with Dual-ch DDR support for socket 754, allthough Latency is not affected by this, Read and Write performance is basicly half of what you find on a dual channel Mobo, with memories that support it ofcource. This is an option you cant leave out. In your case I would go with Intel, they performs much better in your case, or Opteron.
 
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I got the BX Sempron 3100 venice core and its great! OC 50% realy easy, and runs like a puppy... However Bluesword there is one issue, I have yet to find a MoBo with Dual-ch DDR support for socket 754, allthough Latency is not affected by this, Read and Write performance is basicly half of what you find on a dual channel Mobo, with memories that support it ofcource. This is an option you cant leave out. In your case I would go with Intel, they performs much better in your case, or Opteron.
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Thats the Paris core, not venice. No socket 754 mobo supports dual channel memory because no socket 754 cpu has a dual channel memory controller. The performance differnce between single and dual channel is hardly 3-5% so it dosent make much a difference. But if u really need a processor for multitasling the Intel Pentium D 805 is available for 7k which is a dual core processor and will be great for multitaksing.
 
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