I dont know....

The AMD Athlon 64 FX 57 2.8GHz beats them all FX-57

Even these:

Athlon 64 X2 4800+ Vs. Pentium 840 EE

There nice. They stay nice and cool as well. I have had mine up to 3.2ghz. Stable but I have a different cooloing system in mine. At that speed my cpu is at -25c yes negative. http://www.xoxide.com/ect-prometeia-...amd64-kit.html.. Yes Im a big overclocker. It is worth it if you think how long it will last. Although the FX59 is looking good but the wife wont let me? I am sure!

Ill finally be able to play The Sims 2 on a decent spec machine YAY!!! oh and other games as well, its just i bought this game months ago and its been sitting on the shelf doing nothing.

I hope your now buying an FX57 just to play the Sims :-D... This is the chip you play Doom 3 BF2 and Farcry Maxed out and still have frame rates in the 70's

For an AMD with the clock speed of 3.2 i am not sure how AMd name their processers but i think that they are named to match the intel clock speed. So a 64bit Athlon 3200 would match the intel clock speed of 3.2 (even though its only a 1.81 clock speed on the AMD) correct me if im wrong

It's the Sims 2 not just the Sims lol it makes all the difference in the world (just kidding in case you can't hear my extremely annoying sarcasm boreing (like a drill) your mind out) lol.