Weekly CPU & Video Card Price Guide: March 2001 2nd Edition

Introduction

Welcome to the second installment of the CPU and Video Card Price Guide for March 2001. We publish this article to help you the consumer, find the best deals on the 'net. All the tedious work like finding the best prices and locating reputable retailers has already been done so all you have to do is figure out what product is right for you. As always we encourage the reader to investigate every retailer's reliability before ordering, but we have tried to eliminate typically problematic ones from our price guides.

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This Week

This week we see even more price drops in the Pentium 4 and Pentium III lines of processors. We also saw price drops in lower clocked Celeron CPUs.

Although we didn't add any new AMD CPU's this week, we did see some hefty price drops on all high-end Athlon-C (266MHz FSB) as well as Athlon-B (200MHz FSB) processors. The rest of the Thunderbird and Duron line of processors saw downward trends in prices this week.

In the video card category, we see 3dfx prices start to stabilize. We also see the beginning of the fall of GeForce2 prices. ATI shows little change however we notice a significant drop in Kyro 1 prices.