Apologies off the bat for this one.. I'm an old-time AMD whore, and haven't used Intel since my P100 days!
A friend of mine has a crappy old Celeron, and it's really struggling when he's playing BF 2142. I'm looking for a cheap upgrade for him, and seeing a P4 Northwood at 2.8GHz, or Prescott at 3Gz for around the 50 quid mark.
Given that he's teaming this up with an X1300 (AGP) and 1GB DDR400, any suggestions as to which I should recomend?