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Originally posted by rcx21000
Just get a 2500+ and OC to 3200+ 
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I really frown on people making posts like this out of the clear blue sky. That was not the question that was asked. Sure, we discuss overclocking here - it is in the forum title - but that does not mean everyone that posts here should be overclocking, if you did an analysis I would bet that it's actualy a small minority of the membership. Keep the overclocking discussions in threads where it's appropriate.
To answer the original question - only benchmarks will really show a difference between a 3000+ and a 3200+. The P4-2.66 is a 533 FSB non-hyperthreaded processor and will lag both AMD's, but a 2.8C will be in the same ballpark as the AMD's both pricewise and performancewise. They all blow away the Celeron handily though in anything but casual use.