No, its a great chip and board I have one but the cost of an upgrade from a
2800XP to a 3000-64 would not produce a large enough performance increase to
justify the cost.
I have a AMD-64 at 2800 and a 2200XP and while the 64bit is faster it would
not have been worth it if I did not have a need for a second or I just
wanted an upgrade. Its 20% faster on average but cost 50% more so I would
keep a 2800 until price changed.
I would wait a year the cost of boards and price of CPU will make the wait
worthwhile as well as improved S-ATA rumored to hit 300 by Xmas next.
A good video card may be a better buy now if you just want faster games.
Example
A XP3000 with a Radeon 9200 is slower in games than a 2000XP with a Radeon
9800xt The GPU on the video is more important in games.
But if you have the money and want go for it.



"Mike" wrote in message
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Does that mean that I shouldn't upgrade anything, If so, why? Does the
AMD
64 3000+ and K8V SE deluxe stink that badly? I can still take all the
stuff
back to Frys!

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