Introduction

Back after a not so short leave of absence, today we bring back a much missed feature of AnandTech: the price guides. This marks the first CPU and video card price guide since February of this year and, needless to say, things have changed.

As always, we publish this article to help you, the user, find the best deal on current technologies without having to scour the net. Finding the best deals can not only be time consuming but also frustrating. Not only does one have to search various places to find the best price, one must also take into consideration the reliability of the vender; what good is finding an extremely low price if it takes weeks to come or does not come at all? As always we encourage the reader to investigate every retailer's reliability before ordering, but we have eliminated typically problematic ones from our price guides.

If you encounter any problems with a vendor on our list, please email us, and we will take appropriate action. Remember that we will only list vendors with positive customer feedback. If you have any suggestions, don't hesitate to let us know.

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Disclaimer

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This Week

Obviously, the price guide today looks much different than it did over 2 months ago. February's highest end Intel processor, the Pentium 4 2.2GHz, has been replaced with the newly announced Pentium 4 2.53GHz. Besides the new additions to the Intel line, all other Intel chips fell in price from the last time we looked at them, some drastically.

On the AMD side, the story is the same. The previous performance kind, the Athlon XP 2000+, has been replaced with the new Athlon XP 2100+. Prices on older processors fell, as one would expect them to.

The video card chart gets some new editions this issue, including cards based off of NVIDIA's latest GeForce4 GPU.

AMD CPUs

Intel CPUs

Video Cards

The video card market proved to be quite volatile in our weeks off, with the most notable price drop occurring in the ATI Radeon 8500 which fell in price over $80 since February, bringing its price down to a little over $100. New NVIDIA products have found there way to the comparison table since February, most notably the new GeForce 4 based cards. The top end TI 4600 comes in at $311: about the same price as the new All-in-Wonder Radeon 8500. The middle range TI 4400 was nearly $100 cheaper at $230. Naturally, GeForce3 prices fell some since February, with the GeForce3 Ti 500 shedding almost $60 and the GeForce3 Ti 200 losing only $10.

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