3D Spotlight has updated their High-end PC Buying Guide

..I´m sorry Intel, but the only pick for this month comes from AMD, their recently released Athlon running at 1.33GHz is selling for a very low price offering the best performance you can get out there from a single processor rig. This 1.33GHz processor makes good use of DDR memory and newer chipsets that also use a faster 133mhz DDR FSB (266mhz). Just in case you were wondering, an Intel Pentium 4 1.5Ghz is currently selling for about $550, that´s two times the cost of the TBird that runs at a slower frequency (the fastest speed available for that specific processor) but offers a comparable performance, in fact it´s been proven that the Tbird can easily beat a P4 in most tasks.

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