Hey Brett

Congrats on your new purchase. Although you bought
the dreaded P4 not too bad. If the AMD was an
option, should have gone with that, bigger on
chip cache and a faster processor overall. I have
the XP 1600 and it would benchmark faster than
the 1.8 P4 due to chip caches handeling of instruction
sets.

You should however spend the $$ and get the approriate
RAM for your system. Your 400Mhz FSB isn't really
400 unless you have the RDAM with the higher speed
(800 or 400), I am going to assume that the RAM
is PC133 or something along those lines ,which
are much slower. The actual speed of the FSB is
100 or 133, plus the increased memory speed give
you an effective speed of 400.

The only P4s worth getting, IMHO, are the new
2.0+ speeds (2.0-2.2 Ghz), increased on chip cache
and changing the process core to .13 micron make
it slightly faster than the much lower clock speed
Athlon XP 2000 (1.67 Ghz).

How come you didn't build your own?

Tony