Interesting review - especially the OC part.
It would be interesting to do more energy consumption tests.
The reviewer checked power consumption only at idle and burn (0% and 100%).
Modern CPUs spend lots of time at idle (heck, they can enter and exit sleep state between keystrokes...), so it would be very interesting to compare the operating temperature of D0 and E0 Prescotts during normal use (e.g. word processing, watching DVDs).

As always...

Audio Video work = Intel
Gaming & Compiling = AMD

hello, x-bit is losing its credit by this "overall performance" graphics lately. it is very misleading to make a stupid arithmetic mean of all performance results as "overall" performance. go check and learn from anandtech's performance measurements conclusions.

If you mate the 570J with the i925xe chipset, you might be able to get a higher stable overclock. Could you check this out for us?

There is something wrong with the 3Dmark05 benchmarks. My scores are around 5500pts with both an A64 3400+, Asus K8N, Sapphire X800XT and A64 3200+, Abit AV8Pro, Sapphire X800XT.

The price performance graph should include the cost to run one of these fusion reactors for a couple of years!

Dont underestimate the importance of the compiling performance of the Athlon 64, theres a real buisness case for programmers getting one of these of their desks.

one qustion dit you realy benchmark your overclocking results be couse what i have heard is that the 3.8GHz P4 got havvy clock-throttling problems and will throttling back to even 3.2 under havvy load
so it looks like you geting beter results than you actual have in real live gaming

very good