Anandtech reviews several of AMD's and Intel's budget Processors including:
AMD Athlon XP 2600+ (2083MHz)
AMD Athlon XP (Barton) 2500+ (1833MHz)
AMD Athlon XP 2400+ (2000MHz)
AMD Athlon XP 2200+ (1800MHz)
AMD Athlon XP 1700+ (1466MHz)
AMD Duron 1.6GHz
Intel Pentium 4 1.8A
Intel Celeron 2.6GHz
Intel Celeron 2.4GHz
Intel Celeron 2.2GHz
Intel Celeron 2.0GHz
With new technology constantly being developed and released into the high end market, it is sometimes easy to overlook the slightly less glamorous world of budget microprocessors. It's been a while since we've taken a look at what AMD and Intel have to offer in the area of low cost computing, and our curiosity recently got the better of us.
We were particularly curious about what you could get for $100, and it turns out that there are quite a few CPUs that you can get for less than the price of a motherboard. Currently, the budget market is made up of low end Athlon XP, Celeron, and Duron processors. There aren't any Pentium 4 processors that come in under our $100 price point, but we've included the Pentium 4 1.8A (Northwood) as a reference point for the Celeron processors...
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