[Bazooka_Joe]

I hate AMD, but I will admit their Athlon XP line is superior to the P4. BUT! But, now the P4 is up to 2.80Ghrz, making it the leading processor right now. In today's top PC's, Athlon's XP 2200 was ONLY outperformed by the P4 2.53Ghrz, and only by about 3 points on http://www.madonion.com's 3DMark 2001. Now sopposevly, the 2.80 beats it by about 106. So, yes the Athlon is good for gaming, but only if you are not going to buy a processor faster than 2.2Ghrz. Anything over that, you can get the P4. Another plus about the Athlon is that it's cheaper.