At the price point you're talking about it's much more feasible to get an Athlon 64. At the sub $150 market AMD controls the price to performance ratio. You can't really afford to spend more than $150 on a CPU so I have to recommend AMD.
You're also gonna be stretched to include a 10,000 RPM drive. Raptors are $150 for the "small" ones.
Are you willing to go AMD and go without a 10k RPM drive?
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