Why are 3200+ XP's so hard to find?

[Saga]

Building a system for the girlfriends parents from parts I have lying around, and I found this to be a good excuse to upgrade one of my socket A's to a 3200+ (400fsb) Barton and ditch the 3000+ (333fsb) Barton it's currently using.

Only problem is they are a pain in the ass to find! Newegg sold the 3200+ XP Barton's retail packaged for $140 and then stopped selling them, now the highest they support is 3000+ XP's. Other sites (ZZF in this instance) still carry the 3200's but their OEM boxes are $240 - thats crazy to pay $100 more for an OEM package than retail.

Anyone know where I could snag a new (retail or OEM, irrelevant) 3200+ Athlon XP?

 

[SynthDude2001]

I'd recommend just throwing in a cheap mobile XP or something...any more and it wouldn't be worth the money.

 

[Saga]

Price really isn't the biggest issue since I'm buying a new processor for one of my own rigs, I just want one of the best Socket A chips I can nab without having to OC it.

 

[SynthDude2001]

Originally posted by: Izusaga
Price really isn't the biggest issue since I'm buying a new processor for one of my own rigs, I just want one of the best Socket A chips I can nab without having to OC it.

Well, since you already have a 3000+, the upgrade to a 3200+ is so incrementally small that I'd venture to say you wouldn't even notice it except perhaps when looking at benchmark numbers. Not to mention that the "higher end" Athlon XP's were always kind of overpriced anyway, sometimes as expensive (or more!) as the entry level A64's, which of course will destroy the XP's in everything (but requires a new motherboard obviously).

That's why I said that I think it would be better to just keep what you have, and drop in one of the cheapest XP's you can find into the system you're building.

 

[sandorski]

Ebay would have some. I doubt that they are still in production.

 

[Dman877]

Every sinlge mobile barton will run at 11x200 for 3200+ speeds at stock desktop volts (1.65). Grab one of those for cheap.

 

[Rebel50]

Hi I have the same board and ram as your system, and are using a 2500+ barton at 200 X 11 (3200+ speed). If your cpu has unlocked multpliers, why not lower it to 11 and set FSB to 200 i.e. 3200+ , should be easy and stable, even with stock cooler.