When the Athlon 64 3000+ was released, it was a huge bargain at nearly half the price of the 3200+ but still nearly delivering a performance parity. It seemed like a wonderful gift from AMD's Dresden fab. If you look at AMD's price list, you will see that the 3200+ is not even near twice the price of the 3000+ now. The price-to-performance ratio is more in line now, but that is really because the 3400+ has taken the top spot in the desktop Athlon 64 line, so now it's nearly twice as expensive as the cheapest desktop A64, which, of course, is still the 3000+. Does this make the 3000+ seem like any less of a bargain? Well, yes and no. Of course, it does not seem like the bargain it was a couple months ago because the price of the 3200+ has fallen sharply. However, the Athlon 64 3000+ is still a great processor for a little over $200. Although I have not shown it because I don't have any Intel processors at my disposal, AMD's Athlon 64 3000+ competes very well with any other processor in the same price range.

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