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Intel: Avoid at all costs: Celeron anything.
Worst at power consumption & heat generated: Pentium 4 chips.
Best Intel chip for a desktop: Pentium M w/2MB cache.
AMD: There are Sempron's (Duron successor) that support X86-64. Quite a
steal if you want to play with 64-bit computing in the near future.
However, Sempron's aren't as fast as the regular Athlon 64s. IIRC they
have less cache.
Adequate: Intel Pentium 4 & AMD Sempron.
Better: Intel Pentium M and AMD Athlon/Athlon 64.
Best: AMD Athlon 64 X2 (dual-core).
Recommendation: Athlon 64. Best bang/buck and reasonable
future-proofing with 64-bit support.
Consider this:
http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=02108
67 coupled with
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16824009056
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