AMD Athlon XP 2500+ Barton

THE BAD:
Really need aftermarket heat-sink fan and paste.

SUMMARY:
I got 3 of these over a year ago. Needed an unlocked Athlon to go with my Asus A7M266 (with wire trick) and I got it up to 2.10 with no problems even though technically not supposed to work with that motherboard. This was the best bang for the buck (I have 3 desktops and a laptop). I won't be buying any new ones until SATA II is out and it will definitely be an AMD again, probably the FX series or maybe those dual processors ones stacked on top of each other when they come out. When I get another laptop, if it's a really small one I'll be getting an Intel M Centrino, otherwise I'll probably go with AMD.
For most applications it works just fine. Have friends with P4 3.06, and P4 3.2 with 2GB Ram and 95% of the time cannot tell the difference. Except when ripping dual layer DVD's, which I don't do that often anyway.