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"The AMD Sempron 3400 Palermo processor is currently the most powerful Sempron processor available for Socket 754. The AMD Sempron 3400 has all of the main features expected with modern processors such as MMX, 3Dnow, SSE, SSE2, SSE3 and x86-64 support. Unlike the Athlon64 3400 the Sempron 3400 and Athlon64 3000 also have support for SSE3, the only negative aspect of the Sempron 3400 is that it has a 256K Level 2 Cache unlike the Athlon64 processors."

AMD SEMPRON 3400 REVIEW

AMD SEMPRON 3400

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GENERAL SYSTEM INFORMATION

PROCESSOR AMD SEMPRON 3400
AMD ATHLON64 3400
AMD ATHLON64 3000
VIDEO CARD MSI NX 6600 GT VTD128
NVIDIA DRIVER FORCEWARE v84.21 WHQL
MOTHERBOARD ASROCK 939 DUAL SATA2
ECS 755-A (1.1B BIOS)
MEMORY 2 x 512MB OCZ GOLD XTC PC3200 DDR
OPERATING SYSTEM WINDOWS XP SERVICE PACK 2
DIRECTX VERSION v9.0c

GAMES SOFTWARE

COMANCHE4

AMD ATHLON64 340073
AMD SEMPRON 340053
AMD ATHLON64 300059

DOOM III

AMD ATHLON64 3400128
AMD SEMPRON 340080
AMD ATHLON64 3000108

SCRAPLAND

AMD ATHLON64 3400173
AMD SEMPRON 3400117
AMD ATHLON64 3000137

TRIBES VENGENACE

AMD ATHLON64 3400144
AMD SEMPRON 3400116
AMD ATHLON64 3000122

UNREAL TOURNAMENT 2004

AMD ATHLON64 3400148
AMD SEMPRON 3400123
AMD ATHLON64 3000131

WARHAMMER 40K- DAWN OF WAR

AMD ATHLON64 3400111
AMD SEMPRON 340081
AMD ATHLON64 300092

XPAND RALLY

AMD ATHLON64 340077
AMD SEMPRON 340072
AMD ATHLON64 300067

AMD ATHLON64 3400 AMD SEMPRON 3400 AMD ATHLON64 3000

COMMENT - "Using games tested with low resolution and quality settings the Athlon64 3400 offers 25% extra gaming performance compared to the Sempron 3400 and Athlon64 3000. Although the Sempron 3400 delivers playable performance it finishes 11% slower than the Athlon64 3000 which is clocked 200Mhz lower."

CONCLUSION - "The Sempron 3400 was outclassed by the 2.4 Ghz Athlon64 3400 although it did offer performance close to the Athlon64 3000. When using benchmarks which require a high clock speed the Sempron 3400 performed well and actually beat the Athlon64 3000. However when using games software the 256K L2 Cache found on the Sempron 3400 gave the Athlon64 3000 the edge."
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