AboutMike Expertise Areas of expertise: PC Hardware, Peripherals, Barcode Scanners, Printers, and Applications, Networking, Microsoft Applications. I am good at researching issues and have a lot of contacts in the IT industry. So, if I can't directly answer a question I can likely find the answer.
Areas I won't be much help in: Apple Computers, Linux, older Networking technologies like Token Ring, or Thick/Thinnet.
Experience I'm currently a Network Administrator for a contract circuit board manufacturer in Oregon, USA.
I've been working on PCs from a hobby standpoint for better than 25 years. I've been doing it professionally for 4 years.
Simple question, which is best the Athlon XP 1800+ or Sempron 2600+
Thanks in advance.
Answer Of those two the AMD Athlon XP 1800+ processor is the better one.
It has only a slightly slower speed (1.5GHz versus 1.6GHz), which is not enough that you would even notice.
The main reason it is the better processor is that it has a memory cache (256KB versus 128KB) which allows the processor to store more requests at once and process them together. The Athlon is also better at handling graphics than the Sempron.
