Athlon 64 Socket 939 vs Barton 3200+ ???

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Well i am currently running a Barton 2500+ clocked at 2.2ghz (FSB 200mhz x
11) and I am thinking of moving to an Athlon 64. Will I see much of an
improvement over the current cpu I am using? I am running on an Epox 8RDA3+
and 1 gig of OCZ 3200 memory.

I am thinking of a 3000+ Athlon 64 and clocking it (hopefully) to at least
3400+ speeds.
What motherboard is worth getting for this cpu? I have had great luck with
Epox BUT seems their 939 boards are not available at NewEgg as yet.

My main use for my machine is Photoshop and web design. I play games such as
Far Cry and Sims 2 using a 9800 Pro.

My main gripe with my present setup is sometimes accessing folders with a
large amount of files in them can take a while to open, machine acts like it
is locked up when trying to open the folder, I think this seems like a cpu
issue (about 30,000 files in a folder). Also a weird issue I also have is
when Outlook 2003 is collecting email it utilizes 100% cpu and so kills
anything else I am doing.

Will a cpu move from barton to 64 plus the new board make any difference
?(tangible and not just benchmarks)

TIA
Patrick