I've been an AMD fan since the 486 days. Motherboard chipset makes a difference too. Lotsa ram, and keep the ram chipsets matched. Win2k here, rock solid. AMD 2.1g, and 1g ram. Only reason I'm diehard AMD is the price. For what I do, they're as good or better than Intel, and far less money. However, I do know a lot of folks who think AMD compatable motherboards are horrible compared to Intel compatable boards. They are probably right. Seems I go through boards every so often. Celeron? No, doesn't have much onboard cache. I have a dual boot ME/2k machine. ME is broke an awful lot, hate it. But the 9x kernal works fine for older 16bit apps like dance studio. Yup, buy the fastest chip you can afford and get a decent board for it, don't skimp there either.