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Top 20 Budget Desktops

Eight newcomers storm the chart, and the big news is what's inside: a mix of Celeron-366 and K6-2-400 chips battling Pentium IIs.

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Eight new systems grace our budget chart this month, starting with the Best Buy MicroFlex-450A from Micro Express, which finishes fifth overall. This PC combines good PII-450 performance with strong features (including a 19-inch monitor and 3X DVD-ROM) for $1899. We also reviewed four systems equipped with the new Celeron-366 CPU from Intel, and all made our chart, led by the $1399 Sys TaskMaster 366C. To round out a busy month, we took a first look at PCs built around AMD's new K6-2-400 chip. Two reach the Top 20, led by CyberMax's Enthusiast KII-400R, stocked with a 19-inch monitor, a Zip drive, and a DVD-ROM drive. A TigerDirect K-Series system failed to make the chart.

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