[mythtv-users] Any poing in going from 3000+ to 3400+ Seperon

[Brian Wood]

On Nov 24, 2006, at 9:17 AM, Marco Nelissen wrote:

>> I have a AMD Socket 754 Motherboard with a Seperon 3000+ 128kb.  I
>> have started encoding a lot of stuff into xvid which is very slow.
>> The only CPU I can up grade to is a Seperon 3400+ 256kb.  The  
>> speed is
>> not that much more but it has twice the cashe.  Will I notice much
>> difference (when encoding xvid).
>
> It's called 'Sempron', and I don't think you will notice any  
> difference.
> This article shows about a 5% speedup between the 3100+ and the 3400 
> + on
> most benchmarks: http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/200
> Measurable, but not noticable ;)
> You don't say what motherboard you have, but some Athlon64 processors
> are available as socket 754. You might want to doublecheck whether  
> those
> would work in your motherboard.

When you say "the only CPU I can upgrade to..." is this an economic  
issue or a technical one?

I've been using an Athlon64 3700+ "Clawhammer" as my main Myth F/E B/ 
E machine for months now and it works just fine. I've never heard of  
a mobo that would support a Sempron and not an Athlon, and the 754  
Athlons are getting pretty cheap, at least in the USA.

I doubt seriously that the CPU upgrade you mentioned would be much of  
improvement, and probably not worth the effort unless the 3400+ was  
*very* cheap, or free.