Back in June 04, AMD released the Athlon 64 3700+ for about $700. Ends up, this is the fastest socket 754 chip that will ever be made as AMD moved to the socket 939 (essentially the same but allows for dual channel memory).

Well, if you're like me and have a socket 754 board and are looking for an upgrade, I just found out that you can get this chip for $200 shipped - NEW or $220 shipped with OEM fan. Link. I just ordered one last week from that same link (eBay). If we ever get that BF2Bench thing going, I can do some before and after tests and share the graphs with you guys.

I have an AMD Athlon 64 2800+. This 3700+ will take me to 2.4ghz - a 33% increase for $200 isn't bad!

So, if anyone is using a slower Athlon 64 or a Sempron processor of even the same speed, this should be a good upgrade.