HAHAHHAHA, Emachines ... Sorry but the XP 2000+ will blow the celeron out of the water.

Don't get an Nvidia 5700 ~~ get a Radeon 9800 or a 9800 pro, I have personally benchmarked the 9800 & 9800Pro, 5700 and 5900 ~~~ nothing can touch ATI's higher end cards... NOTHING!

Here are a couple of posts i have written...

http://testmy.net/forum/index.php?topic=103&highlight=9800#103

http://testmy.net/forum/index.php?topic=435&highlight=9800#435

I run an AMD 2100+ ... and swear by AMD and ATI both, My 2100+ is old news right now (got it a very long time ago) but still I have yet to see any of my friends and co-workers touch my performance, some of them have 2.5-3GHz P4 machines (and my chip is only running at about 1.7GHz, I have 1GB of ram, Asus board and Radeon 9800 Pro) ~ Stick with AMD and ATI they will never let you down.

If you do get a lower end card though (in the $100-$130 range) I would get a NVidia card, they do have that market pretty locked down.

By the way... get yo azz some DDR memory BRA! ~~~ You can't even image the difference!  And stop mixing and matching memory chips, you need to have 128/256/512/1024 ~~ keep it uniform and your system will benifit ... take out the mis-matching 64MB chip you have in there and run with 256MB, you will see a difference even though you will have less memory, the computer will be able to write to the RAM easier.  (I would persoanlly just make key chains out of all that old memory and get ONE nice 512MB - that will dramatically boost you ~~ even more if your board can take DDR and you get yourself a 512 DDR)

corsiar (think that's how you spell that )  ~~ and trust me it will help

Corsair memory ROCKS!  Just about the only memory I will use

After reading this post my friend decided that benchmarking wouldnt be as much fun as he thought.  Since then he has bought a BFG Technologies FX5200 256mb PCI graphics card.  Saddly he doesnt have an AGP port for this new card.   I guess that is what you get for $400...  I on the other hand have done nothing to my setup.  I am thinking about getting some OCZ ram at pc2100.  If you want to see a sweet setup check out the build it faster post in the Overclocking/Product Feedback.  Lorne is building a Pimputer based around the Amd 64bit processor.

Thanks!  You soon will be able to hand me my smoking remains with the pimputer.  I have CDW, Tigerdirect and a mom and pop shop all  local so it is kinda nice.. I have connections so i get good equipment for cheap.  I will post a pic of my setup.

WHATEVER YOU DO DON'T GET AN AN7 (yet)!!!  The AN7 has HUGE issues right now due to it being in it's first revision. I mean, look at the NF7, this is it's 3rd revision and they still have problems with somethings. For the AN7 things range from uGuru being ubber gay and not working right to no sound at ALL to poorer performance than it's sibling NF7. Just don't get an AN7, and the uGuru isn't even worth it, it takes the fun out of overclocking it manually   .

And on a side note, the athlon will smoke the celeron out of the water. Pure and simple. Hell the athlon will probably beat the P4 of same speed (non celeron).

Nowhere special...my internet is really crappy, and I don't mean like 1mbit crappy I mean my max dl is 4 kB/sec and 330bps upload. ON CABLE! Friggen mediacom better get off their asses to fix it though. And I've had mass homework and approaching AP tests to go for so...yah it's hell...