sempron mobile heat problems?

Hey guys, im in the mkt for a laptop and am considering an Averatec sempron model. I have a athlon XP desktop and i know it runs a lot hotter than a pentium. Are the sempron mobiles the same?

I need a laptop to take gigging and the program i will be using is very cpu intensive. It runs fine on my desktop, but I really cant risk my laptop overheating at a gig and causing stability problems.

Another question i have is regarding the L2 cache on the semprons. Do the semprons use L2 cache in a differently than the intel chips? I know for a fact that the program i use will not run well on the celerons with 256k L2 cache. I've posted in the particular software's forum, and the mods insist i buy a centrino based laptop for the increased L2 cache. Should i not consider the semprons b/c they have 512kb L2 cache?

Thanks for the help guys

 

Hi There.

Try digging around with Google. I was reading a world of information earlier.

I'll find/post the links if I have time.

Good luck[ ]

 

Sempron is very much like AMD's facsimile of the Celeron...Stick with Athlons or Pentium M's

 

NOOOO
the sempron may be compared to a celeron, but that's only becaus amd knows they can win easily.
It is more of a centrino equivalent.. ask anyone who has it.
A very good chip. If the desktop chips are any guide as to the mobile chips' power, a 1.6 ghz centrino and 2800 sempron are similar, even battery-wise.

 

Tomshardware.com states sempron is simply a rebadged athlon, so they can sell the new model easier (justify price) and get life out of the old one too.

 

The AMD party line is that the Sempron is a budget version of the Athlon 64 - with only 256KB L2 and without the 64-bit architecture. Kind of the Celeron of AMD chips, but why compare an AMD product to its inferioir Intel bretheren?[ ]

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I guess when Gateway bought eMachines, I should have run away, eh?

 

P.S.-There is no such thing as a "Centrino processor"...It's referred to as the Pentium M.

 

Either way I'd pay the relatively small upgrade amount & go for either a Pentium M or an Athlon-64.....they're not that pricey if you get in on a great deal (i.e. the Dell Inspiron6000/HP's zv6000, both had spectacular promotions that just ended recently)...It's worth the upgrade!!

 

If you're going to wait, wait just a littlelonger and get the new dual cores from Intel coming out soon.

The sempron in this 3270 shows up as an Athlon 64 when installing the power now software.

It's a toss up between most of the systems as far as L2 cache is concerned, it really depends on what you're doing.

If you're going to be doing a lot of repetitive data processing, then you will want more cache as what heppens is that you will get less discontinuities in teh speed of your apps due to the nature of the cache being storing of repetitively used functions and prefetch of instructions and data based on proximity or likeliness that the next thing to be used is going to be coexistent with what was just used.

If youre going to be running a lot of small applications that will change frequently, it won't be as much as an impact. You'll want soemthing that runs faster with raw speed because you're going to be missing cache hits like hell anyhow.

It's sort of up to you to do your homework to see what the full impact of taking less CPU with more cache or vice versa. CHeck benchmarks of systems representative of what you want to by doing things that are representive of what you plan to do.

I can say that you will have much less chance of failure and greater device longevity and reliability if you can have them running as cool as possible, theyll be inherently quieter too.

Or just buy an apple and be done with it.