Budget Overclocked?

Okay. I'm building a super cheap PC for my little sister. She will only use this for playing games on the internet and playing the original "The Sims" games. I can get a motherboard combo with either a Celeron D 2.8GHz cpu Prescott, fan, mem for $130 or a Pentium 4 1.6GHz cpu, fan, mem for $140. Obviously the Pentium is higher end, but I was thinking maybe it would be worth overclocking the Celeron. I've seen people overclocking the Celerons to as high as 4.0ghz. Is a overclocked Celeron going to beat a 1.6GHz P4? What kind of fan would be good for overclocking the Celeron? Any ideas to help me out. I have most of the parts already. CD-ROM drive, Geforce Ti 4200 128MB. Thanks

a 1.6ghz p4 or p-m, if it is a p-4 it would have to be a willamette core and very old and genrally not that great. a newer celeron would kill it iirc.

What is the best fan to get for extreme overclocking on the Celeron D?

I mean, it doesn't even have to be Intel. I could go either way, just whatever the best for the cheapest.

even at stock the 2.8 "D" will be better then the 1.6...and the 2.8 OCs much better..

Thinking maybe this, minus the heatsink. I'll get a better one for overclocking. http://www.partspc.com/ProductDetails.asp?CatID=83&ProdID=10659

i'd recommend a AXP-mobile 2500+ paired with a Abit NF7-S mother board. should be about 160 bucks at teh egg (don't get the s2 you want the s rev.2) but 2500+ mobiels are some ofthe best overclockers out there, myne is cooled by a sp-97 i believe and a 92 mm tornado, and i can hit 2.6ghz in the winter

What is that Moblie? Do you have a direct link perhaps?

I would look at used parts maybe. After you get 100 posts you can access the classifieds and see all kinds of cheap parts. Personally a cheap Chaintech s754 board and cheap s754 semperon these clock pretty well and would give her the choice of a better CPU alittle bit later on if she wants it.

An even cheaper way would be to get a duron, unlock the cache, and overclock the snot out of it. Here, the cheap motherboard would be even better than the expensive one because it likely has a via chipset. That means you can do the mobile mod and wham unlocked duron =)

I dunno about you but an unlocked tbredb(duron w/full cache) at 2.4-2.6ghz sounds good to me

Of course, the sempron s754 path is much more upgradable and will perform better, so if you want a budget system thats upgradable, go with that.