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.

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[demonbrawn]

They were powerhouses in their day. That's what I started out with. RIP.

 

[russianboy]

A generation of CPU's that will never be forgotten...RIP

 

[newtekie1]

Good, they outlived their usefulness. If you are buying a single core, a Sempron is all you need.

 

[Steevo]

I still use my 4000+. But soon it will be sold to a friend. Whole system customised for $900.00

 

[mandelore]

sold my previous 4000+, damn that was a sweet ass chip.

Athlon Single Cores I salute you o7

 

[ktr]

at least i have my fx57, perhaps amd's highest athlon single core...

 

[pt]

i also trade my athlon (orleans 3000+) with a c2d
it was a very good chip, and overclocke great

 

[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

 

[Easy Rhino]

i still have mine running just fine as a storage server. sorry to see them go.

 

[hat]

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

 

[newtekie1]

So what, I have several socket As that still work just fine, that doesn't mean I would go out and buy one today.

 

[hat]

dude you should sell your socket A stuff. $$

 

[newtekie1]

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...

 

[Protius]

still gota xp3000, and A64 3200 runin in da house

 

[Easy Rhino]

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

 

[WarEagleAU]

RIP Athlons.

On a side note, arent the ones they are talking about now the AM2 single cores or am I just losing it?

 

[a111087]

lol, i bought Orleans 90nm 3500+ am2 6 month ago

 

[Tatty_Two]

Good, 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

 

[newtekie1]

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

Yep, and all of them were bought in the past. That statement affects the present situation.

 

[Tatty_Two]

Yep, 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?

 

[newtekie1]

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.

 

[russianboy]

Overpriced? Weak?

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.

 

[Dippyskoodlez]

Overpriced? Weak?

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.

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.

 

[newtekie1]

Overpriced? Weak?

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.