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Top 10 Power PCs

Once again, Athlon-based systems outpace their Pentium counterparts, but P4 systems nab the top two spots on our chart.

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AMD Athlon processors extend their lead over Intel's Pentium 4 competition with the debut of the 1.4-GHz Athlon CPU. Athlon-based systems often grab higher PC WorldBench 2000 scores than their PIII and P4 counterparts, and this month is no exception. The highest score on the chart is a blazing 242 from Xi Computer's 1400 MTower SP.

Also of Note

We tested a slew of systems with Pentium 4-1700 processors, including Xi Computer's 4170 MTower SP (the P4 brother of the new, third-ranked 1400 MTower SP) and Tangent's Medallion Pro Plus. Both systems include twin hard drives connected to an IDE RAID card, helpful for disk-intensive tasks like video editing. Acma's $2598 ZPower P4 and Amax's $2885 MicroPlex 8000 include Microsoft Office XP Professional in their software bundles. With PC WorldBench 2000 performance scores of 207 and 217, respectively, these systems didn't miss the chart for being slow; in both cases, the problem was their high cost.

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