Exactly, I posted in this forum as it annoys me that people say that an older socket sucks just because there is something newer. A 754 3700 is close to the fastest you can buy at the moment (except the unaffodable athlon fx's then) and it totally crushes a stock venice 3200. At least mention...
On the other hand, If you are not an overclocker and wish to use this system for quite some time, the AMD 3700 is a much better choice I think. The dual channel capabilities of socket 939 not nearly make up for the 400 mhz speed advantage and double cache amount of the 3700 compared with the...