The reason to go for A1G3XE instead...

[mikeymike]

@ Helgis75

Even if altivec support wasn't mentioned (it was, btw) in the OS4 featurelist, that would be an incredibly short-sighted attitude.  If an OS doesn't take advantage of a significantly performance-enhancing architecture in one revision, you can be quite certain it will do, as soon as possible (ie. a patch for the operating system at a later date).

[mikeymike]

an athlon 1600xp runs at 1.4 gig and athlon users dont need to worry about heat the motherboard has thermall shutdown anyway

The thermal shutdown system available on some Athlon motherboards isn't as efficient as the one that is part of the P4 chip.  AthlonXP users have had their systems toasted when the heatsink sprang off.

The thermal shutdown system on *some* AthlonXP motherboards can detect a gradual but dangerous increase in temperature, typically caused by a failing/failed CPU fan though.  But then, I always found the best system against that was my own ears, as soon as you start hearing a very dodgy noise come from your computer it's time to oil or change the fan

[mikeymike]

AthlonXP users have had their systems toasted when the heatsink sprang off.

Buy a good quality heatsink

It's not an issue about good quality heatsinks, it's how well the user clamped it to the socket.

How often does your CPU fan go up to full speed, btw?