Hi i currently have an athlon xp 2700, i would like to upgrade to the non-64 bit Athlon xp 3200. My motherboard is an Abit AT7-MAX2 and i am not sure if i can put that new of a CPU in it. Any help you can provide would be nice :-)

Personally, I don't think making that switch is cost effective...you're looking at over $300 for what really isn't that huge of an increase. Have you tried experimenting with the clock settings for your 2700? You don't necessarily have to O/C, but you should notice a decent performance boost if you were to lower the multiplier & raise the FSB, but still keep it reasonably close to the designed clock speed of 2.17ghz. I'm not sure what FSB options you have though...

Thanks for the advice but i am in a position to get an Athlon 3200 for nearly free, and i was wondering if my motherboard, an Abit AT7-Max2 was capable of handeling that cpu. The Abit website says a 2800 max, but that was made when the 2800 was just still a vision and not a reality and i dont think they updated it. So any other thoughts

In light of the cost of the 3200+ being nearly free, I'd go for it. At worst, you could use it later in another motherboard. Otherwise, I agree with jam...the OEM 3200+ is 409.99 at the local friendly PCClub.