AMD Sempron (Socket 754): Sempron 3400+ (Palermo) review

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Review Date: 20 Oct 2006

Price when reviewed: (inc VAT)

Reviewed By: Seth Barton

Our Rating 3 stars out of 5

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AMD's budget Sempron range is also available in the Socket AM2 boards, but the 3400+ is the fastest Sempron available for older Socket 754 motherboards.

Many Socket 754 motherboards do not support Sempron processors as standard, so you may need to update your motherboard's BIOS.

With a clock speed of just 2.0GHz and only 256KB of level 2 cache, the Sempron 3400+ is not a fast processor. It achieved a reasonable score of 87 in our audio-encoding benchmark, but poor scores in the video-encoding and image-editing tests of 90 and 127. Its overall score of 103 puts it at the bottom of the group. Overclocking the 3400+ to 2.2GHz increased its overall score to 111.

If you want to give your Socket 754 PC a new lease of life, the Sempron 3400+ is a cheap way to get a performance boost. If you're building a new budget PC you're better off with Intel's Celeron D 356 for £5 more, or a dual-core Pentium D 805 for an extra £20.

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