I just wanted to share my experiences with upgrading.
So, I finally have migrated away from the Intel platform, and have gotten myself an AMD T-bird. I went from a PII 300, to a PIII 600, 733, 800, and now a Thunderbird 1GHz.
I replaced my o/c'ed 800 (running at 900), and Asus CUSL2-C mobo...