Mega Pc And Celeron

I am looking at buying a mega pc, but the only worry i have is that i cant really afford the pentium 4 cpu, i was wondering if the emga supported a intel celeron??
thanks

Put one together yesterday and celeron 2.4 runs fine i am pretty sure it can take up to a 2.8 celeron

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