OK, so here is my understanding of the big debate. Sometime around last year when Intel's speeds started jumping up exponentially, they ran into problems with processors running too hot and actually had incidents of computers catching on fire because the rumor was they took their old slower chips and just overclocked them causing more heat.

This started the big AMD wave of everyone saying that AMD made a better chip and all even though the bus speed and the processor speed was technically lower on the chip.

I also am told that AMD's are more stable than the old Intel chips that were overclocked in regards to overclocking - if you overclock.

So now I'm told that the P4 Northwood processors are much more stable and are not just overclocked slower processors. They are supposed to be a whole new architecture to them.

Price wise, the chips are actually about the same....and if I'm liquid cooling a machine to control the heat anyway, wouldn't the new P4 Northwood be a better choise because of a faster bus speed and a faster processor?