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I really could not disagree more. Why has no-one answered my question posed many times, the Athlon XP has been benched and marketed against the P4 since its birth as its predecessor was against P3 and P4. Why the hell is it now competing with Celerons on price ? What went wrong ?

If you think A64s are *currently* selling out of stock because of their 64bit and NX abilities then you are away with the fairies. They *do* have a 5-10% performance cushion which is why the 3800+ can handle the EE and the FX kicks all butt apart from P4's media encoding specialties. Do you think Prescott would be getting such a panning if it wasn't for the A64 making it look bad in 32bit ? Its performance would have been perfectly acceptable against XP.