The price i saw that day at pcfair is around rm180-190 in some shop , not rm210. Extra money spend on ram or motherboard.

This post has been edited by D@rk: Aug 7 2006, 11:08 PM

3Ghz on SempronAM2 will definately smoke 2.7ghz AM2 Orleans .XS forum has a guy hitting 28sec superPI using 3000mhz Manila while 2.7ghz Orleans just touching 32sec.
Actually, for AM2, the cache dont bring much effect, that the reason why Amd phasing out the 1M L2 Cache Windsor because it dont bring large improvement against 512k L2. The K8 architecture dont really put heavy on L2 Size. That why Amd gonna realease AM2 X2 3600+ with 1.8ghz 256Kbx2 L2 cache for mainstream dual core.
I think a sempron AM2 3.0ghz will definately on par with 2900-2950mhz Orleans as both is base on same waffer except it has Half L2 cache. XS forum has some comparision between them , and what more intresting is some program, detect manila core as Orleans-256 instead of manila. I will post up the link later.