[QUOTE=Dj Yoshi]I almost never, ever buy used unless it's obvious the buyer is getting rid of perfectly capable hardware, which it almost never is. Also, AM2 is the new socket for AMD and supports DDR2. I'd look into it, especially as it will save you a good 80 bucks on RAM.

And the speed increases--in leaps and bounds. There's no constant increase of speed in the processor market (take back when the AMD64 first came out--you had the FX processor, which is roughly equivalent to a 3500+ iirc, and HIGHLY overclockable, and the 3500+. Then you had the highest ranked AMD Athlon XP at 3200+ which didn't hold a candle to the AMD64 equivalent [yay hypertransport]).[/QUOTE]

Yeah..man..I'm so far behind. I buy used often, though.