AMD will give you more bang for the buck.
Realistically, you'd be better off upgrading that Celeron to a P4 and getting some more RAM.
I do all of my Maya rendering on an AMD 2100+ with 512MB or RAM. I used to render on dual 2.8Ghz Xeons w/2GB of RAM. They were fast, but they didn't make rendering on my AMD torture.
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