Two older machines which one is better?

[Scratchinmyhead]

My kid wants a computer and my wife wants me to get rid of my collection. So I want to give me kid the best of my older computers and I've narrowed it down to two of them one is some kinda computer with a Matsonic MS8308EP266 Motherboard with an AMD athlon xp proccesser with 2 512 pc133 sdram and the other is a hp pavilion 9870 with an intel pentium 4 and 4 256 pc800 rambus rdram both with windows xp service pack 2 my question is which of the two is better

 

[MindoverMaster]

I think the AMD is the better system over the P4.

 

[kmote]

I'd go for the one with the most memory.

 

[MindoverMaster]

I'd go for the one with the most memory.

Umm. kmote, It has the same amount of RAM. Unless you meant something else. SDRAM is also more advanced than RDRAM (AFAIK)

 

[kmote]

Whoops, I missed out that he gave the number of modules. In my defence, it was 2:44 am and 1GB is an unusually large amount of RAM for those machines.