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AMD recently announced the new AMD Sempron processor line that will take over their budget line of CPUs.  There are two flavors of this line, the K7 and K8 cores, but the K7s are what is going to be covered in this review today.

Based on the very popular Thoroughbred-core from the Athlon XP days, the Sempron 2800+ processor runs at 2.0 GHz on a 333 MHz front-side bus.  This means that DDR333 memory is going to be the name of the game for better performance.

The Sempron processors still fit into the same 462-pin socket that you know and love from the Athlon XP and thus the motherboard selection is going to be wide open.  For our testing, we chose to use an AMD-supplied Asus motherboard that uses the NVIDIA nForce2 chipset with integrated GeForce 4 MX graphics.

We built a similarly priced system based on Intel's fastest budget processor, the Celeron D 335, using an ATI-based chipset motherboard with integrated graphics as well for as close to an apples-apples comparison at the lowest cost possible.

Here are a couple of the benchmark results we came up with:

These results and more show the Sempron 2800+ and the Celeron 335 processor to be very competitive in the low-budget system market, with a very slight edge going to the new AMD Sempron 2800+.

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