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Top 10 Power PCs

Dell's Pentium-based OptiPlex GX400 retains top billing in a lineup with three new Athlon entries.

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It's all about Athlons this month, as three new PCs with AMD's powerful 1.4-GHz CPU make the chart. Sys's Performance 1400TD captures third, Polywell's Poly 880K7-1400 hits fifth, and NuTrend's Athlon Ultra 2, bearing an IEEE 1394 (FireWire) card, lands in seventh. Gateway contenders drop this month; the company is upgrading processors.

Also of Note

New systems with 1.4-GHz Athlon processors include the Acer Veriton 9100 and the Micro Express MicroFlex 1400A. The Veriton 9100, equipped with 128MB of PC800 RDRAM, misses the chart with a mediocre score of 186 on our PC WorldBench 2000 tests. Micro Express's MicroFlex 1400A earned an above-average score of 230 on our PC WorldBench 2000 tests but lacks some features.

Systemax's Venture U17, a 1.7-GHz Pentium 4 system running Windows Me, and Venture U14, a 1.4-GHz Pentium 4 system running Windows 2000, both missed the chart because of their average speed and components.

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