{mosgoogle}Monster Hardware has posted a review of the AMD Athlon 64 3200+ CPU Review. This is a bit of what they had to say about it.

Like an aging athlete contemplating a comeback, when Geeks offered to provide me with a AMD Athlon 64 3200+ (Socket 939 Venice core) for site review I will admit to being a little apprehensive. After all, it had been an eternity (nearly two years) since my last big upgrade. With all the new technology (die shrinks, dual channel memory, PCI-E video cards) to name a few would it take a long time to get back up to speed? Surprisingly the answer was no! Unlike the old days most of the new technology offered a seamless transition. Well, the PCI-E motherboard video card retention mechanism is completely bone-headed, but more on that another time. Today we are talking about a new CPU.

Since these days the Athlon 64 3200+ isn't a just released CPU and AMD seems to have once again forgotten to send me my twenty page PR folder with the pretty graphs and a listing of all the new architectural innovations most sites get , I figured I would focus this review on the areas that I thought most of the readers--as well as myself--would be interested in: price, performance, overclocking, and temperatures.

Read the full review here.