EPoX Boards Ready For Sempron

Leveraging existing platforms to support value segments, AMD released a newline of processors, Sempron™ that serves the needs of the basic PC market. EPoXat the same time released Sempron™ supported mainboard list for selection.

The initial AMD Sempron processor supports multi-platforms, ranging from SocketA, Socket 754 and Socket 939. It also integrates 256KB of L2 cache and supportsonly 32-bit OS, differencing from Athlon 64-bit CPU. As supporting Socket754/939, users can easily upgrade from 32-bit platform to 64-bit, the nextgeneration platform, while keeping the same hardware and maintaining the mostcost effective performance.

Sempron is invented from Latin Semper. "Semper", Latin for "always", is morecommonly used in the phrase "Semper fidelis", or "semper fi", meaning alwaysfaithful. As its name suggested, AMD Sempron™ processors are being developed tomeet the evolving day-to-day needs of home and business PC users. The newoffering is able to run over 60,000 of the worlds most popular applicationsflawlessly and deliver maximum performance on the mainstream applications, suchas web browsing, email, and word processing, even downloading and playing music.Also, it is optimized for Microsoft Windows XP Professional, and is compatiblewith Windows XP Home Edition/98/ME/NT/2000, as well as Linux and other PCoperation systems.

The AMD Sempron™ processor is set to redefine everyday computing. It is at thehead of its class for all of the most important performance measurements.Sempron™ 2800+ had been proved being 106% outperformed its counterparts. Tofulfill the demand for Sempron™ s market, EPoX released a list of mainboardmodels that support Sempron™ processor.

AMDSempron™ (Thoroughbred) Supported Mainboard List

Model

Chipset

Model

Chipset

1

EP-8KDA3+

nForce3 250Gb

10

EP-8HDA5+

K8T800

2

EP-8KDA3J

nForce3 250Gb

11

EP-8KRAI

KT600

3

EP-8RDA6+ Pro

nForce2 Ultra400Gb

12

EP-8K9A7I

KT400A

4

EP-8RDA+ Pro

nForce2 Ultra400

13

EP-8KMM5+

KM400A

5

EP-8RDA3+ Pro

nForce2 Ultra400

14

EP-8KMM5I

KM400A

6

EP-8RDA3I Pro

nForce2 Ultra400

15

EP-8KMM3I

KM400

7

EP-8RGM3I

nFore2IGP