Originally Posted by mgoldb2

I truthfully dont think you will be happy in the performance increase from a athlon xp 2600 to a athlon xp 3200. First of all because AMD no longer officially make athlon xp 3200 places that still selling it that I see is way over priced for what you getting. 2nd I dont think there that big a difference between a xp2600 and a xp3200.

For example looking at pricegrabber the cheapest retail box of a athlon xp 3200+ cost $148.

For that price you could get a athlon 64 3000+ newcastle core skt 754($146) or athlon 64 3000+ skt 939 venice core($148). I think you would get alot better performance from a athlon 64 3000+. This is A) memory controller on the cpu B) uses hyperthreading instead of FSB.

Just my 2 cents.