I had a Athlon 64 3200+ and i never benchmarked the stock speed. Just the other day, i got that it's performance was comparable to Athlon 64 3000+ even though it was running at 2.0Ghz (1MB L2 cache). So i called Mwave and argued for a replacement. So now that my processor is being shipped there, i'm stuck with a Celeron 900Mhz. Man do i suck at like....