Ordered Sunday, arrived Thursday, dropped it in this weekend. When I pulled off the Acer heatsink/fan the Sempron came out with it! Had to heat it with a hairdryer to pry them apart.
OK downloaded the AMD X2 patch, dropped the X2 3800+ in, reused the Acer HSF and started up. WindowsXP recognized new hardware and installed it. CPU-z shows both cores. Start up of the computer and programs are still long. Why am I not noticing any change in performance?
Added 2X256 PC3200 RAM to the existing 2X512, both dual channel 2.5 CAS and now the kids get decent frame rates on Spiderman 3.
$81 could have been better spent on more RAM. I am not impressed with dual-core. Am I missing something?