AMD Athlon 64 3000+ (Winchester) Review and Overclocking
 

Our off-the-shelf sample was utterly stable at just under 2.4GHz, cooled only by the supplied reference heatsink. All it took was a slight rise in core voltage and a motherboard capable of scaling with the processor's heightened driven clock. Overclocked benchmark results were on a par with a standard Athlon 64 3800+, a processor that costs almost 4x the £110 3000+ retail price. S939 is soon to enjoy the performance benefits that SLI-capable chipsets can deliver, so faster CPU speeds become even more important due to the number of games that will become system-bound with a pair of fast SLI cards working in tandem

http://www.hexus.net/content/reviews...lld19JRD05MzM=

this is the "budget" CPU to get for your S939 setup :)

that's why I got one, now it only needs to arrive :)

yes it must be hard to work on that FX53@3Ghz rig... :p

calantak goes budget? :p

I wouldn't call "a spare rig so that when I'm at my girlfriends place, I can game a little" a budget compu ;p