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A PIII of the same speed will have significantly better performance
in games, but then the Cel. is probably better actual value. If I were
you I'd go for the C2 so you get the SSE instructions which are pretty
good for use with 3d games, handy also for speech recognition and some
other exotic uses.
If you're getting a new motherboard tho, the Durons are WAY WAY WAY
better value since they can actually be cheaper for the clock speed,
overclock about as well and will just slap ANY celeron silly. The
newer boards give you some pretty cool upgrade options too - you could
go for a Thunderbird or whatever AMD comes up with next. PIII's have
about reached their performance ceiling, but the Athlons just keep
scaling up and up. Can barely get a 1Ghz PIII for all the money in the
world, and you can get a 1.2GHZ Athlon TODAY, CHEAPER, with no real
problems with supply.
A good Duron/Athlon board m ight also let you use DDR SDRAM, so there
are some very significant and good value upgrade paths for you in the
near-ish future... DDR RAM is predicted to be the next big thing and
cost only a little more than SDRAM. RDRAM has turned out to be the
biggest crock of bolognia ever and costs 4x as much as FASTER ordinary
ram, plus that company is pure evil and needs to die for the good
of the world.
Intel are kinda losing it, and AMD are climbing fast. They're not the
cheapest rigs but they ARE the best value for money, Socket A systems
(esp. with new AMD chipset).

qwer...@my-deja.com wrote:
> 
> I can't take it any more, the P166 is going to server duty and I'm
> building a new system.  My question is this:  I have been advised by
> several game-junky friends that it's not worth the extra $ to get a P3
> chip over a minimum 600mHz Celeron.  True of not? Cause I certainly have
> better things to do with the extra bucks.  I just want something that
> won't choke on wide-open maps with lots of models (ie- arena-type
> railgun only servers).  Thanks!!