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[covert420]

okay, I am piecing a friend of mine together a computer he plans to use for school, cs burning, and very very casual (and low end) gaming. I have a question on the parts im going to use.

I have 2 motherboards with 2 proccessors.

Both motherboards are intel made motherboards.
The first features a Celeron 650Mhz chip
The second features a Pentium 2 450Mhz MMX chip

now the question of which to use seems easy, however, the board with the celeron processor only features 4 PCI slots and 2 PC100 ram slots. The motherboard with the P2 processor features 4 PCI slots, 1 AGP slot, 2 ISA slots, and 3 PC100 ram slots, along with an improved heatsink for the processor. This puts me in a bind as I have 3 128mb ram sticks and a PCI ATI Rage2 card vs an nVidia GF4MX400 card.

So which one should I use?

-P2 450Mhz w/ 384mb ram, AGP slot, improved heatsink

-Celeron 650Mhz w/ 256mb ram, no AGP slot, weaker heatsink

(Also: on an ATI Rage 2 card, what are the WFC/j2/AMC connector prongs for?)

 

[Ned_Flanders]

id say
-P2 450Mhz w/ 384mb ram, AGP slot, improved heatsink

better CPU (i think?), more RAM, AGP

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[sparky853]

Definatly go for the P2-450 with 384MB RAM. If you benchmark it, guaranteed the P2 would be faster overall, plus the AGP.

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R9600XT 128MB
SB Live 5.1
WD 60GB
Maxtor 120GB
LG DVD+-R/RW
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