All,

I am looking to rebuild my 6 year old BH6 / 3 year old 850 Celeron / 400 MB SDRAM.

I would like to use this new system to play games like DOOM3 and also run VMWare Workstation with 5 OS:

- Linux 2.4 firewall OS (FFW)
- Latest SUSE w/ Apache Web server
- Win2K w/ MS SQL Server
- WinXP for Gaming
- Win98 for testing

I am basically thinking a hot new Xenon w/ 1MB L3 cache would be the best all-around CPU for this config, but I don't have any experience with them.

Would I be better off not spending all the dough on a XENON and maybe put it toward other parts of the PC (like a Geforce 6)? What is a P4 Extreme?

Thanks!