It finally dawned on me that the memory controller, or a significant part of it at least, is on the CPU rather than the motherboard. And that the Sempron is bottom of the line and the Phenom II X6 is top of the line. I went looking for information about that and found a bit saying that the Sempron and the X2 on which it is based were only rated ( Read more... )

When I built up the new belgian in something of a hurry last Winter, I skimped in a few places. I bought just a little fairly slow memory (by today's standards....) and the cheapest CPU I could fit in the motherboard. I re-used my hard drive and a video card jmaynard was no longer using. A while back I changed to a nice new 1 TB Hitachi UltraStar hard ( Read more... )

( When you unlock a second core and it becomes an Athlon X2. )