An early s462 mainboard's BIOS isn't going to be equipped to enable all of the features and functions available from a later AMD processor, and the XP 3200 has been out of production so long that there are no new ones in the normal channels, and the few that are available are at unrealistically high prices now. Almost all of the late, Barton core, XPs have gone that way, with the exception of a relatively small number of XP 2200s and 2400s.
There are some heavy duty bargains available on good s754 mainboards for lower performance A64s and medium performance Semprons (which are still in production for s754 for another five months or so, and aren't priced high at all. The s939 CPUs have been out of production now for several moths, replaced by the AM2 versions, and are already becoming harder to find.)
I would recommend against getting locked into another dead end socket, however.
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