Since I know a lot of people are thinking of upgrading including myself.

Just thought a few might like to know that by what I've read Intel is dropping the price of thier P4 around the end of August. (AMD always follows suit).
Pentium 4 Price Cuts - 22 August 2004
Processor Prev. Price New Price Change
Pentium 4 560 (3.6GHz) $637 $417 -34.5%
Pentium 4 550 (3.4GHz) $417 $278 -33.3%
Pentium 4 540 (3.2GHz) $278 $218 -21.6%
Pentium 4 530 (3GHz) $218 $178 -18.3%
Pentium 4 520 (2.8GHz) $178 $163 -8.4%
Celeron D 335 (2.8GHz) $117 $103 -12%
Celeron D 330 (2.66GHz) $89 $83 -6.7%