king, good call with the 2500. Those things cost like $85 and you can overclock the bus from 166 to 200. After that, you have pretty much a 3200+.
However, that idea that you can use that motherboard with athlon 64 is false, for a fwe reasons. First off, the socket is different. Athlone...
I agree with you for the most part. The reason that happens on aztec is the fact that those used to be crates in an earlier version. They never added the 3rd layer needed to keep from shooting through it.