AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Venice

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I am going to my local store to pickup one of these chips. Anyone have a rough list I can bring with a ranking of which to look for. I think they only have about 20 in stock, so a rough list is good enough. I'd like to get it up to at least 2.5-6 and I know most do that semi-easily... but I'd love to get the best cpu possible.

PS - I am going with a DFI Ultra-D board and some good OCZ ram, my heatsink is an XP-120 so I should be able to get the most out of any chip, or at least the average o/c for that stepping.

 

[the cobbler]

if they have ...BPBOX instead of ...BWBOX, get a BPBOX

then follow these general guidelines:
best weeks
0504-0517 roughly, 0519,0521,0523 are hit and miss of course, but tend to be better clockers
0517 is the best week, almost impossible to find now.

you probably will be facing mostly BWBOX (E6s) with weeks 0530+ in which case just grab one and pray.

also, steppings are a good indicator for the most part

find one ending in *MW or *AW or *EW if at all possible