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you'll gain a few Mhz and some extra cache which will help your benchmarks and possibly a few games.
Will you notice a significant difference, probably not.
I went from a PIII750 oc'd @ 813 to a XP1800+ and can't tell the difference.
What is noticable, was adding RAM from 256 to 768 with the Athlon. As for the PIII, I noticed a performance increase from 128 to 384. Mainly because Windows didn't have to use as much virtual memory, which is considerably slower
The final performance increase by 10 fold. Going from a GF4MX440 PCI graphics card to Radeon 9100 AGP(remarketed 8500) and this is more of a PCI limitation.
So having the newest top of the line Radeon is overkill, since your CPU will be the bottleneck, upgrading it will help the Radeon perform better. The opposite is the same..haveing a crappy card and Athlon 1900 won't do you any better than keeping a Duron.

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