Hmm, come to think of it, I dunno if I would have rather bought this P4 2.6C or that. Of course I'd have to sacrifice in terms of memory and system board, because this is $45 more than the P4 I bought, but still, it makes me think maybe I should have waited...

I do like the inclusion of a heat spreader on AMD's new CPUs. About damn time! Being the ***** that I was (am :rolleyes: ) I lost a shiny new Athlon XP 1900+ due to improper heatsink installation a while ago.

Sweet first the annoucement of SE ATI cards nad now this. Gonna need some summer $ for an upgrade.

Oh I want one....What really gets me is the 1mb L2 cache....me wants..me wants....

Sweet thats cool.. I'll let my 2100+ last me until the 5000+ though

There are just so many things wrong with the 754 pin implementation of the AMD 64 bit CPUs that I don't think I'd ever buy one. I'd prefer an Athlon FX or Opteron once they get reasonable in price and AMD settles down on the possible configurations. AMD seems to be going in 600 different directions at once with their 64 bit line.

Oh, and if you look at the part number on that chip, it may be a 512 KB cache version of the chip.

i wonder why the 3000+ version is so much cheaper than the 3200+ version. is there something about the 3000+ we don't know that makes it less expensive?

I'm a gamer, and an overclocker (when the central heating is off), so I want a resonably cheap processor that is powerful.
Although the Athlon 64 is good, the P4 is still better, for games.
The only Athlon CPUs that are good are either the really cheap value ones, on sheer low price, or the Athlon 64 FX 51 (the really expensive one) which can be overlcocked and made very fast indeed.
Otherwise, P4 leads the way IMO.

Newegg has fixed the error, at least for the RETAIL version. Now shows 512K L2.

Athlon 64 3000+ Retail