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This Week
As usual, if you have any reports of incorrect prices please feel free to email us with the name of the vendor and the product/price that appears incorrectly on their website. This will help us produce a more useful guide in the future.

This week turned out good for those looking to get certain brands of video cards, particularly ATI AIW 8500!

AMD CPU

Generally, the AMD chips dropped a few dollars this week.  Several sites are running specials on the XP 2400+ but you still may want to hold off a little bit before buying these. Hopefully next week will bring price drops to the AMD market.

Don’t forget that the AMD cross country tour is coming up again.  Obviously, you will save a bit of cash if you end up winning a chip in the upcoming weeks!

Intel CPU

Very little movement this week on P4 and Celeron prices.  Our picks from last week remain the same.  Unforuntately the 2.8GHz and 2.66GHz CPU’s seem to barely be moving at all.  Until they get some competition at the top their expect their prices to stay high!

Video Card

ATI cards are beginning to make a strong name for themselves in the guides, and starting next week we will be separating manufacturers of ATI cards rather than just grouping them together (Powercolor, Sapphire, ATI, etc).  Even though the ATI cards have been available for some time now, resellers are just starting to actively compete ATI vs NVidia and visa versa.  As we start to see the two giants NVidia and ATI finally adjust to their newfound competition, get ready to see some great prices!

Matrox seems to be doing absolutely nothing and hasn’t moved in price in 3 months.  Unless I have a strong following otherwise, I plan on de-listing them from the guides.  Please email me [email protected] if you do not want this to happen.