Xeon 2.4Ghz or Athlon xp 2600

[X-Nemesis]

Which would be better in general for a gaming system?

The Xeon is about $140 bucks cheaper...and I know that they are geared more towards servers but I figured I'd ask out of curiosity.

And what's a good mobo to put with the Xeon...I think that there are only two manufacturers who produce for the Xeon processor.

Thanks

[hjs]

The AMD is the fastest

[Kennyshin]

For gaming, Athlon works better.

[BuddhaTB]

For Gaming, always go with AMD's Athlon. They are better suited for gaming, while Intel Pentium's are geared toward applications and productivity.

[Kadrien]

I know the XP chips can be used in any recent AMD motherboard, but don't the Xeons require special motherboards? I believe they hav extra pins that require a special socket. I may be mistaken, but it's something to look into.

[Ian]

Why a Xeon? Why not a normal P4?

[Kadrien]

Don't Xeons have larger L2 caches than regular P4s?

[voltron]

Unless the games you're playing are doing real time server transactions, stick to the Athlon.