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Article: Component stability equals big savings. (Sweet Spot).
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- Australian PC World
- Article date:
- June 1, 2003
- Author:
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As mentioned in last month's Sweet Spot, a considerable number of new processors, motherboards and graphics cards are being released. Although their impact was not really felt in last month's Sweet Spot, it has definitely become cost significant now. Six of the seven Sweet Spot selections have been retained for one last month (there is a slight change in system RAM, see below) in order to capitalise on the lower prices of available essential hardware made possible by current model upgrades of graphics cards, CPUs and motherboards.
The current CPU sweet spot--held by the Intel 2.53GHz Pentium 4 and the AMD Athlon XP 2200+--has benefited greatly from events such as ...