I was going to biuld a new system based around an Athlon XP2700+ 2.2 GHz 333 MHz cpu.
Having searched the net for prices I can get an P4 2.66 GHz Boxed PC533- Socket PGA478, 512kB "Northwood", for the same money.
So now I'm not sure which system to build, does this P4 cpu blow the XP cpu...