AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Venice Single-Core 2.0 GHz Socket 754 ADA3000BXBOX Processor

Pros: Fast! Matched with a Asus K8N mobo. Runs cold with stock heatsink and fan. Temps at normal load: CPU 28c/82f Mobo 26c/78f Vcore is at 1.4 Best BANG for the buck

Cons: None!

Overall Review: At the moment im running the junkiest ram (3 256mb generic 2700) I can tell my bottleneck is the memory, so I will upgrade to nice new 2gb kit from kingston or corsair.

Pros: Bought it cause it was a new revision and i didnt want to go overboard on my budget.

Cons: 754?

Overall Review: Just wrote in to comfirm it works fine in EPoX EP-8KDA3J Socket 754 NVIDIA nForce3 250Gb ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail without a bios update.

Pros: works good w/games a little better than my 64 sempron 3100.could be the L2?

Cons: scored 5277 on 3dmark05 cpu test.my sempron scored 4779 on same test oc to 2520 on both cpu's

Pros: This is one cool and super nice CPU! This thing overclocked to 2.74ghz on the stock heatsink and Prime95 stable.. a beast!!! Very stable and fast, all my games are so smooth and the PC is very fast and responsive while doing heavy multi-tasking.

Cons: none

Overall Review: Took 1.65v to get her Prime95 stable but she idles around 38-41c and does 56c under full load running Prime torture test.

Pros: Affordability and overclockability. I built two systems within the last month with this processor; one system I left running at stock speeds (for a relative), and the one I built for my son is running at 2.5GHz on stock heatsink/fan. Stable on all games and 3DMark05; idles at around 40C, load temps are around 47C-48C.

Cons: there are no cons - if you want a better processor, you spend more money.

Overall Review: I purchased one of the first 754 pin Athlon64s (130nm process?) over three years ago; the best overclocking I could do with that was to squeeze an extra 200MHz out of it. I'm mildly surprised at the overclockablily of the 90nm process.

Pros: 1. Cheap 2. Runs 2.4 Ghz on Zalman air easy, little to no increase in temp (~39C) @1.4V 3. Requires less juice than the Newcastle that I passed down to little sis. 4. CPU Benchmark scores in Sisoft over an FX-53, nearly FX-55.

Cons: none

Overall Review: So tweakable on DFI Lanparty 2x512 Ballistix DDR4000 Antec TruePower430 Thank you newegg!

Pros: Get this CPU, Don't buy the Sempron spend the extra money and get A Athlon 64.

Cons: None

Overall Review: I should have done this sooner.

Pros: Excellent performance to price ratio. Product received on time. Massive overclock potential. Low heat production(idle & load). Quiet fan. Easy installation.

Cons: AMD factory packaging is subpar. AMD "thermal pad" and heatspreader contaminated with factory packaging particles. Price dropped three dollars after purchase.

Overall Review: I purchased this CPU for a Biostar K8NHA-Grand motherboard I had been given. I am currently overclocking(25%)this CPU to 2.5GHz, using a 3% over-volt; until I reached my motherboard's HTT bus BIOS limit of 250MHz. This gives me a AMD PR rating of FX-55. I am sure this processor can do more. I would take an educated guess of a 33% or better overclock. Temperatures are ~27c(idle) & 41c(load). The AMD factory, internal packaging seems to be and issue. Whether the damage ocurrs when shipped from AMD or somewhere in-between being stocked by Newegg, expect some damage to occur from the subpar material. However, the components(CPU, heatsink, & fan) should be fine. Be warned though, I would highly suggest you inspect the CPU heatspreader & thermal pad for contamination by packaging particles and clean if neccessary. Most hardcore builders will wipe the pad off anyway and apply a high quality compound. I did not, as I am still "out of the box" with this build.