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Top 20 budget desktop PCs
August 12, 1998
Web posted at: 12:15
by the PC World staff
(IDG) -- A horde of cheap Pentium II-300, -333, and -350 PCs takes over almost the entire chart this month. We also see our first PII-400 PC, the TigerDirect Tiger Pro 400. It's not an all-Intel game, though. The new CyberMax ValueMax B8, the first PC we've tested that's based on the Cyrix M II-300 chip, is an impressive alternative. At $1449, it offers PII-300Šlike speed at a bargain price. Another non-Intel offering, TigerDirect's AMD-K6 300 system, failed to make our charts despite its $1399 price--low for a system with a 17-inch monitor. Holding it back: a PC WorldBench 98 score of 153 that is slightly below the average for PII-300 systems, and less-than-helpful documentation. Still, it looks like a terrific bargain.
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