AMD Sempron 64 3100+ Palermo 1.8GHz Socket 754 Single-Core Processor SDA3100AIO3BX - OEM

Pros: CPU worked well as could be expected.

Cons: CPU posted as a AMD Hammer Family Processor.

Other Thoughts: Requested an answer to the AMD Hammer Family Processor question. Referred me to AMD.com

Pros: SUPER FAST! Bought it when it cost a hundred bucks...got it for my budget gaming rig. Spent all my money on my video card so i really didnt have enough to get a high performance processor, but this lil baby was super fast. Overclocks like crazy and runs super cool. Didnt bottleneck my video card mainly cuz i'm playing on 1280*1024. Great CPU. Best bang for ur buck!!!

Cons: now its like twenty five bucks...bought it when 754s were good...but oh well...

Pros: Pair this CPU with Nforce 3 Motherboard. Overclock to 2.1GHz out of the box with AMD cooler. Stays below 41c under load. Great bang for the $$$. Runs cooler than Maxtor hard drive.

Cons: None really.

Other Thoughts: setting for Nforce MB
DRAM config:
- max memclock to 166MHz
- 1T memory timing
- Tcl to 2.5
- Trcd to 3
- Tras to 10
- Trp to 3

- CPU overclock to 235MHz
- AGP overclock to 67MHz
- AGP Aperture to 128MB
- Clock Spread Spectrum to disabled
- HT Freq to 3x
- CPU multi to 8x
- HT multi to 3x

Pros: Firstly, this CPU down right amazed me last year, it was superiorly fast. Now I have an AMD Athlon 64 FX-55 in my main rig, but this CPU is used in my new build media centre. Combined with 512MB of RAM and a 80GB HDD, the new media centre is quick enough for video encoding. Paired with a decent video card, its good also!

Cons: Socket 754

Other Thoughts: Buy... Buy... Buy...

It wont disappoint you!

Pros: Follower of glorious Athlon family. Performs as it should.
Supposedly has more cache than other older Semprons

Cons: Came in with a few bent pins. Not a real problem.

Other Thoughts: Used it to prolong life of my Win XP rig. Can't see much of the performance improvement over the OC'd Barton, but there should be some.