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With the arrival of Intel's Core 2 CPUs, the PC hardware industry is going through a renaissance of sorts: end users are excited about CPU upgrading once again.
It's not that the CPU industry has been boring lately, in fact, far from it. We are after all only a little over 12 months out from the debut of the first wave of dual-core CPUs. But the first-generation dual-core chips were prohibitively expensive, and the software infrastructure wasn't really in place to take advantage of dual-core processing: while Moore's Law is alive and well in the PC hardware industry, in the software realm it's the complete opposite. In fact, "when it's done" is the mantra repeated over and over again by the software industry's leading developers. In any case, end users are excited about upgrading like never before because of one thing: rapidly falling prices.
$250 can get you a lot of CPU nowadays. Looking over the latest CPU prices on Price Watch, with $250 you can buy a shiny new Athlon 64 X2 4200+ and still have over $50 left over that you can invest in a new motherboard or GPU. A year ago the X2 4200+ sold for well north of $500 buy itself!...
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