As I suspected the Sempron is not an ideal gaming processor and should really only be used for such applications when coupled with a graphics card with similar power to that of a Radeon 9600 Pro or less. If you were to purchase a GeForce 6600 GT or anything faster than this you would be robbing yourself by using a Sempron processor. While the Sempron is certainly not a slow processor, the $50 US saving is just not worth loosing 25% gaming performance over. The four games that were used for benchmarking all showed at least a 20fps performance drop when using the Sempron processor.

Unfortunately, even the overclocked Sempron configuration was unable to compete with the Athlon64 when it came to gaming. Despite now featuring a 400MHz higher clock frequency, the Sempron system was still around 10fps slower. This was quite surprising given the majority of the synthetic results favored the overclocked Sempron system. While the Sempron is not an ideal gaming processor it is clearly still very capable of decent game play. Therefore if you already have or just purchased a Sempron processor you will not be bitterly disappointed.