AnandTech value buyer's guide

Anand Lal Shimpi heeft een guide in elkaar geknutseld over hoe je het beste een 'hij moet wel snel zijn maar niet te veel kosten' PC in elkaar zet. Een gemiddelde buyer's guide is niet echt bijster interessant en deze guide van Anand is geen uitzondering ware het niet dat deze mooi laat zien welke veranderingen er de laatste tijd hebben opgetreden op de value markt :

Things have changed a bit this month, AMD's Duron processor is finally here and while the chips aren't as readily available as the Athlons that have recently dominated our gaming & professional value systems we did manage to find a few reputable vendors that had them in stock on-line. In spite of the Duron's introduction the Celeron is still present in our Value SOHO system since you can use that processor with a highly integrated i810E board and not have to worry about paying for a video card. Once boards based on VIA's KM133 chipset start popping up things may change, but for now the Celeron + i810E platform makes the most sense for the Value SOHO market segment.

The only regret we had was that it is too early to include NVIDIA's recently released GeForce2 MX in our Value Buyer's Guide as that card would make the perfect addition to the gaming & professional Value systems. So keep your eyes out for that addition in our next edition, but for now let's get to the systems.[break]Ook laat deze guide (jammer genoeg) zien in welke richting Aureal gaat met hun mooie A3D technologie, naar de afgrond :[/break]While we used to include both the SB Live! Value and the Aureal Vortex 2 (OEM) card, with the recent troubles that Aureal has been having and the fact that www.aureal.com is no longer accessible (http://support.aureal.com works however) we have finally decided to remove the Vortex2 from the list of recommended sound cards.

Onze eeuwige dank gaat uit naar Itsme! & Robszombie voor deze tip!