I'm looking to upgrade in the next month or so, and fancy building a K7 600/Geforce DDR/Soundblaster Platinum/ATA-66 based system. I know that the 0.25 micron K7's do not overclock well because of the heat they generate, but do hear that the 0.18's should be better. However, I have yet to see 0.18's at lower clock speeds available commercially. Also some of things i've seen about the 0.18 cache speed issues are not good.

I have had my heart set on an Athlon for some time now, but am now less than convinced. I saw DriverGuy's message about a end-of-month Athlon price reduction, is this likely to influence my decision a great deal?

Jon