HP Pentium III 550 Mhz!! NEED ADVICE!!

[Tha DutchMasta]

I'm fairly new to this and I need some advice. I have a Hewlett Packard 8495 Pentium III 550 Mhz with a voodoo 3000 installed. I was wondering if someone could give me some advice in choosing a pentium 4 processor motherboard as well as a cooling system. I'm looking for the ultimate speed and would like to know some prices. If anyone has any suggestions, I would really appreciate some help in determining what products are right for me. Thanks.

~Tha DutchMasta

[outhouse]

Hold off on buying a p4 there not all that and a bag of chips the AMD 1.333 overclocked benchmarks about as good as the best p4 for the money you wont get the performance that you should if you really want a new p4 wait and they should have some better ones out soon but for now try to be patient.

goodluck

[Godfodda]

From what I've read (specifically at extremetech.com) the faster AMDs are quite OC friendly. If I hadn't just laid down the bucks for this Intel setup, that's what I'd have.

[Phil]

If you really do want a p4 though hold off for the northwood revision as curent boards won't work with it so you'll be outdated quicker than an nvidia card if you buy now.