Attached Link: http://www.tomshardware.com/motherboard/20030812/index.html

Jim, I think it's starting to look like OS, CPU (speed/make) and then FSB (front side bus) speed, in that order - with 2 caveats: The overriding caveat is that any memory capacity of less than 512MB is going to put you in a hole no matter what. And the second caveat is that you have to have the memory speed/type to make use of that FSB speed. FSB speed might almost give you more gains than CPU speed, but of course any system with really fast FSB is going to be a new system with a very new and thus relatively fast CPU. Anyone got a P4 2.4 or 2.6 overclocked to 3/3.25 on a 1GHz FSB yet? Seems to be a sweet-spot configuration (see link above), but hard to do with a P4 3.0, as it'd be pushing 4GHz!