Monday, June 25th 2007

AMD Starts Phasing Out Single-core Athlon CPUs

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AMD has decided to start pulling out some of its single-core Athlon 64 CPUs, which will be replaced by the 45W (single-core) Semprons that will be released in September this year. The soon-to-be phased out CPUs are the 65nm-built Athlon 64 3500+, 3800+ and 4000+ while their replacements are the upcoming 65nm Sempron LE-1300 (2.3GHz), LE-1250 (2.2GHz) and LE-1200 (2.1GHz), all boasting 512KB L2 cache and the 256KB L2 cached LE-1100 (1.9GHz) and LE-1150 (2.0GHz) models.
Source: TechConnect Magazine

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29 Comments on AMD Starts Phasing Out Single-core Athlon CPUs

#1
demonbrawn
They were powerhouses in their day. That's what I started out with. RIP.
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#2
russianboy
A generation of CPU's that will never be forgotten...RIP
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#3
newtekie1
Semi-Retired Folder
Good, they outlived their usefulness. If you are buying a single core, a Sempron is all you need.
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#4
Steevo
I still use my 4000+. But soon it will be sold to a friend. Whole system customised for $900.00
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#5
mandelore
sold my previous 4000+, damn that was a sweet ass chip.

Athlon Single Cores I salute you o7
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#6
ktr
at least i have my fx57, perhaps amd's highest athlon single core...
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#7
pt
not a suicide-bomber
i also trade my athlon (orleans 3000+) with a c2d
it was a very good chip, and overclocke great :)
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#8
selway89
Only recently got rid of my 4000+, damn they were work horses. Had mine running at 3GHz! and the 1MB cache helped.

Missing mine, but got an X2 at 2.8GHz which is fast to me; unfortunatly dont have the money for a C2D system.

RIP
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#9
Easy Rhino
Linux Advocate
i still have mine running just fine as a storage server. sorry to see them go.
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#10
hat
Enthusiast
Even my dad's socket A 2200+ runs oblivion on high textures, bloom, and 2x aa on 800x600 with good frames. It's 1.8GHz. RIP
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#11
newtekie1
Semi-Retired Folder
So what, I have several socket As that still work just fine, that doesn't mean I would go out and buy one today.
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#12
hat
Enthusiast
dude you should sell your socket A stuff. $$
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#13
newtekie1
Semi-Retired Folder
I probably should. The processor still fetch some very high prices on ebay.

I have:

3200+
3000+
2900+ x2
2500+

and those are just the bartons...
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#15
Easy Rhino
Linux Advocate
running my socket A athlon 1.33 ghz AMS3C

not sure what the fsb is on this bad boy. im actually selling this with the mobo and 512 ddr400 ram if anyone is interested
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#16
WarEagleAU
Bird of Prey
RIP Athlons.

On a side note, arent the ones they are talking about now the AM2 single cores or am I just losing it?
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#17
a111087
lol, i bought Orleans 90nm 3500+ am2 6 month ago
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#18
Tatty_Two
Gone Fishing
newtekie1Good, they outlived their usefulness. If you are buying a single core, a Sempron is all you need.
I have gotta say, that is just about the worst blanket statement I have ever seen coming from a guy who has owned so many single core processors that were not all semperons :D
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#19
newtekie1
Semi-Retired Folder
Tatty_OneI have gotta say, that is just about the worst blanket statement I have ever seen coming from a guy who has owned so many single core processors that were not all semperons :D
Yep, and all of them were bought in the past. That statement affects the present situation.
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#20
Tatty_Two
Gone Fishing
newtekie1Yep, and all of them were bought in the past. That statement affects the present situation.
So you beleive that a overclocked Semperon would not CPU bottleneck an 8800GTX any more than a Athlon 4000+ socket 939 @ 3.2Gig?
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#21
newtekie1
Semi-Retired Folder
No, I believe that if you are wanting to buy a processor for gaming a single core Athlon is too weak(and too overpriced), and if you aren't buying a processor for gaming a single core Sempron will be enough.
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#22
russianboy
Overpriced? Weak? :wtf:

It was rather cheap in it's day (bang for the $$$) and very powerful aswell, I can still play all of my games on Vista w/ minimal lag.
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#23
Dippyskoodlez
russianboyOverpriced? Weak? :wtf:

It was rather cheap in it's day (bang for the $$$) and very powerful aswell, I can still play all of my games on Vista w/ minimal lag.
You just ignored his entire argument. :wtf:

His point is correct, theres little to no reason to buy a single core CPU as they're close enough in price if not cheaper to get a dual core.
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#24
newtekie1
Semi-Retired Folder
russianboyOverpriced? Weak? :wtf:

It was rather cheap in it's day (bang for the $$$) and very powerful aswell, I can still play all of my games on Vista w/ minimal lag.
In it's day, it's day is over.
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#25
newtekie1
Semi-Retired Folder
DippyskoodlezYou just ignored his entire argument. :wtf:

His point is correct, theres little to no reason to buy a single core CPU as they're close enough in price if not cheaper to get a dual core.
Thank you.

Who in their right mind is going to buy a 2.2GHz 3500+ for $65 when you can get a dual-core 2GHz x2 3800+ for $67?
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