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Or you could get a totally new mobo for 70 bucks w/ the AMD Barton 2500+ for 80, pop em together for only 150 bucks, overclock it EASILY with the stock heat sink w/out doing anything but setting the FSB speed in the BIOS, and boom--you got 250 bucks to spend on a video card. An athlon 2500+ overclocked to 3200+ is cheap and comparable to a 2.8 ghz p4, you save money, you could sell the other mobo and cpu for 100 bucks or so bringing your net cost to 50 bucks, and you could then drop 300 bucks on a sweet video card...
Nothing wrong with pentium, other than the ridiculous price.
If you are not going top of the line, there is never a reason to buy one.
You always get more bang for your buck with AMD unless you want cutting edge.
If money isn't a concern, by all means get a p4 and destroy your friends.
I gather from your post that money is a concern, however.
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