Originally posted by b_dyche
The fastest Athlon XP (Barton) should do well... a 2800+ should be more than sufficient, and is $200 less than the 3200+... also, when shopping for computer parts, try www.newegg.com and www.pricewatch.com
actually, it's been documented that you can buy an athlon xp 2500+ barton, pc3200 ram and a motherboard that supports 400mhz fsb and you can o/c the 2500 to 3200 specs. something about athlon using the same core to save production costs. i've read about it on offtopic and it seems several members and hundreds more online and reported perfect results w/ factory cooling.