AMD's Sempron 3300+: 90nm Budget Computing
by Anand Lal Shimpi on April 18, 2005 2:10 AM EST- Posted in
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Audio/Video Encoding
MusicMatch Jukebox 7.10
DivX 5.2.1 with AutoGK
Armed with DivX 5.2.1 and the AutoGK front end for Gordian Knot, we took all of the processors to task at encoding a chapter out of Pirates of the Caribbean. We set AutoGK to give us 75% quality of the original DVD rip and did not encode audio.
The Sempron's encoding performance is pretty competitive, but the Celeron D still pulls ahead.
XviD 5 with AutoGK
Another very popular codec is the XviD codec, and so, we measured encoding performance using it instead of DivX for this next test. The rest of the variables remained the same as the DivX test.
Windows Media Encoder 9
To finish up our look at Video Encoding performance, we have two tests both involving Windows Media Encoder 9. The first test is WorldBench 5's WMV9 encoding test.
Next, we have our own home-brewed HD encoding test:
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Bapster - Monday, April 18, 2005 - link
Why dont they use a mid-range video card with a budget cpu ???It's like buying an FX-55 and using a 9250 Readon
These articles would be better using an X700 or 6600 GT .
But thats only my two cents.
PrinceGaz - Monday, April 18, 2005 - link
sorry my reply was meant for #7PrinceGaz - Monday, April 18, 2005 - link
#6- the review says "The Sempron 3300+ has a default core voltage of 1.400V, bumping it to 1.500V and increasing the FSB to 240MHz yielded us a nice and even 2.4GHz, a 20% increase in clock frequency."That wording suggests they did not attempt to find how fast it could go, only that they chose 2.4GHz because it was a convenient speed (a straight 20% increase) to see how much difference it made in real-world performance. I would be interested to know just how high it could go to both at default voltage and a modest overvolting.
bupkus - Monday, April 18, 2005 - link
#7 Yes, and of course the Celeron D can easily OC to 3.6GHz; I have a 320 that does that quite handily. But I still got the point the author was trying to make. Overclocking a cpu with limited cache has limited benefit as it still operates best within it's strengths.bobsmith1492 - Monday, April 18, 2005 - link
Visual -http://www.anandtech.com/news/shownews.aspx?i=2411...
This news post? I don't see any removed news post.... chill with the conspiracy theories.
Visual - Monday, April 18, 2005 - link
ok what's with this? there was a news post about someone else's review of 3300+, i think from april 15th, now you post your own review and remove the news post? why'd you remove the newspost?DrMrLordX - Monday, April 18, 2005 - link
You guys only hit 2.4 ghz on the Sempron 3300+? Man, all the OCs I've seen on the 2600+ and 2800+ have hit 2.4 ghz fairly easily. My 2800+ hit 2.4 ghz with a vcore bump, and 2.3 ghz without any vcore adjustments at all on the stock heatsink. All that, with 256k l2 cache.The 3300+ doesn't seem like a very good choice for overclocking compared to the 90 nm 2800+ and 3100+(yes, there are 90 nm 3100+ cpus out there).
snedzad - Monday, April 18, 2005 - link
According to latest unofficial AMD roadmap (http://www.hkepc.com/bbs/attachments/amdroadmap_bc... it doesn't seem that Sempron will ever be available for 939 sck. Both 754 and 939 will be replaced with M2 socket in 2nd half of 2006.plewis00 - Monday, April 18, 2005 - link
Probably because they consider dual-channel memory a high-end thing and don't want to pass it down to the budget-end, the same thing with HT and Intel Celerons.Anyway someone said AMD are releasing an S939 Sempron didn't they?
arfan - Monday, April 18, 2005 - link
why there is no sempron 4 socket 939 ? i want to buy socket 939 + sempron