If you have another computer with ~200MHz processor, you should set it up as firewall, between your network and the net. There are couple nice packages out there which will make that old comp act as state of the art firewall. (I'm using IPCop)
If you're creating computer for games, I would not load AV software on it. If you really insist in loading it, the disable active virus scan, and set scheduled runs, once a day or every couple days. This way you will completelly offload computer, and will not suffer from low response time.
Use Ad-Aware in combination with SpyBot to clean ads and spyaware.
There are couple other things you should do, to speed up computer. Get better disk-defragmenter, something like Diskeeper. Also make sure that your page file (virtual memory) is in one segment, and not changing on the fly. (should be about 1.5 times of your working memory)
Also disable all themes and visual effects.
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