I'm going to need a new mobo soon...

[John]

Ben Novack wrote:
> Oooookay, I just found out that it's probably *not* the mainboard that
> was the problem, but rather his running PC2700 RAM on a P4 Northwood
> system. Sigh.
> 
> So, nevermind, it looks like I'll just have to pick some PC3200 and
> I'll have a working P4 2.4 system.
> 
> Although... what kind of a speed increase would I get going from
> 2.4/400mhz to 2.8/533mhz?

On the face of it, a little over 10% CPU. Disk? Not enough info. Video? 
ditto.

How much of that do you actually use? As for me, I'm battling to tell 
the difference betwen a Pentium III 550 and a P III 666. The main 
difference is the extra RAM I have in the latter. The '550 has an 
wretched Intel chipset, the other Via. Via is less picky about RAM and 
supports more of it.