Having not paid much attention since I last built my PC (less than a year ago), I have been a bit out of the loop..
So whats the current choice when it comes to price/overclocked performance? On air cooling that is (although I am sure that extends even further for those with water/phase cooling ).
The 1700+/2500+ reigned supreme on the AMD camp when I built my PC, with the 2.4Ghz P4 clocking to insane (~3.6Ghz?) speed on the Intel camp..
My next purchase would be on a CPU on a 939 socket platform.. but are there any interesting chip right now on that platform?
I am kinda surprised that the price doesn't seem to have changed much since then.. My Barton 2500+ doesn't seem to have been devalued much at all, and there doesn't seem to be an A64 that cost what I paid for my Barton yet..
(In fact, I think that the mobile version of the 2500+ is more expensive than what I paid for my Barton... Although I assume it'll clock higher).