amd athlon 2500+ (barton) clock @ 2046mhz
abit nf7-s
1.5ghz ddr400 ram

OR

intel celeron D 336+ 2.8ghz clock @ 3.4ghz
ECS P4M800PRO-M2 V2.0
1ghz 667mhz ddr2 ram

thanks.

http://www23.tomshardware.com/cpu_2...

Oh, & BTW. Is the video card a common denominator?

Actually, i was thinking of placing an ati 9700pro (which i bought used online) on one of these systems.

thanks for the link, but somehow, i find it hard to decide. A 2800+ (which is somewhere near my overclocked 2500+) beat celeron 2.8D in Far Cry and Doom III. but, it's been clock to 3.4ghz now, and there's no 3.4ghz celeron benchmark.

Hmmm....Anyway, i think i'll go with the AMD.

thanks.

I think we covered this before, but why can't you get that 2500+ to run at 2.2GHz (11 x 200Mhz)?

As for comparing the systems:

The Celeron D 336 may be a 64-bit CPU, but it only has 256k L2 cache & the current FSB is approx 162MHz. You may have 1GB DDR2-667 RAM, but for optimal performance, it should run at 162MHz to match the CPU. And you have a board based on a VIA chipset rather than a more preferrable Intel or nForce chipset.

The 2500+ Barton is only a 32-bit CPU, but it has 512k L2 cache & the current FSB is approx 186MHz. You have 1.5GB DDR400 which should be run at 186MHz to match the CPU. And you have a board based on the nForce2 chipset (the undisputed king for the socket A format).

Looks like you've chosen AMD anyway, but I'd work on getting that FSB up to 200MHz.

"I think we covered this before, but why can't you get that 2500+ to run at 2.2GHz (11 x 200Mhz)?"

Well, have a look here :

http://www.computing.net/gaming/www...

and here :

http://www.computing.net/cpus/wwwbo...

I've bought the Aero 7+ cooler, and even with that, i have to raise Vcore to 1.85V to get it running at 186mhz x 11 stable.