Price Guides April 2004: CPU and Motherboards
by Kristopher Kubicki on April 27, 2004 6:59 AM EST- Posted in
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Intel Processors
On the opposite side of the CPU battle Intel is holding onto their lead thanks to some recent price drops which bring their chips back into a range which is more reasonable for the average consumer on a budget. While the newer Prescott core chips have dropped in cost rather dramatically, the performance still lies in their Northwood cores. For this reason, we recommend picking up the Pentium 4 2.8c with 512K cache. Currently, there is no point in purchasing, for example, a P4 2.4GHz since the 2.8GHz costs nearly the same price. Don't be fooled into grabbing those 1MB L2 P4s just yet; Prescott doesn't shine yet at these clock speeds.
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MadAd - Wednesday, April 28, 2004 - link
Typo in very last sentence: but we probably still wont need them for at least another yet.Perhaps you were still deciding how long it will be and forgot to update it when publising? :)
TrogdorJW - Wednesday, April 28, 2004 - link
I just like how they recommend the Soltek SL-K8AV2-RL as one of the two options for an Athlon 64 motherboard, but it isn't even listed in their prices below. Oops.Actually, here's something I would really like to see: a hard core review of some of the Albatron motherboards that include the Via Envy audio (or one of the boards using the new Realtek chip). Are these Albatron boards good, or are Asus, Abit, and MSI still better?
Klober - Tuesday, April 27, 2004 - link
I'm curious why the AOpen AK89 Max is not included in this Price Guide. After the shining review I thought for sure it would be here. Could it possibly included in the next Guide? Thanks!Rob Niccum
kiedis - Tuesday, April 27, 2004 - link
the only thing i cannot really understand is why the article calls "cpu and MEMORY" while reviewed are only cpus and mobos.. =)