 CPU Price Chart - March 18, 2001
Notes
and Recommendations:The
Celeron 800, utilizing a 100 MHz bus,
finally makes its debut at an average
selling price of $130. It needs to
fall below $100 to be even competitive
with the similarly-performing Duron 800
from AMD, however. The Duron 850
dropped quite a bit since the last time,
as well as the Celeron 766. The P4
1.3 GHz fell about 10%, but it's still too
expensive. Soon to appear on the
chart will be the newly introduced AMD
Athlon 1.3 and 1.33 GHz.
Best high-end,
best-bang-for-the-buck CPU for this time:
AMD Athlon 1.2 GHz
Best value-based,
best-bang-for-the-buck CPU for this time:
AMD Duron 800 MHz
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