My AMD Athlon 64 2800+ is on eBay with an hour left and is at [url=http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6841242539&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMESE%3AIT&rd=1]US$90[/url0. I assume it'll go over $100 with 24 "watchers". That means the 30% speed increase only cost me ~$100 (or less). I think that's pretty fair! With this, I might have bought myself another year or so and be able to skip socket 939 altogether and goto whatever the next socket is.