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Top 15 home PCs
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(IDG) -- You'll find lots of fresh faces on the home-PC charts this month, all tested under the new PC WorldBench 2000 test suite. Four systems debut on the power list, including the Best Buy Gateway Select 800, the first AMD Athlon-800-powered home PC PC World tested. Meanwhile, Dell's compact and affordable WebPC nabs the budget Best Buy, thanks to easy setup and an LS-120 SuperDisk drive.
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One new midrange home system that missed the chart is Compaq's $1398 Presario EZ2200. This easy-to-use PC has a side panel you can pull off for quick (albeit constricted) access to memory sockets and two open PCI slots. A 17GB hard drive and a CD-RW drive offer storage options.| MORE COMPUTING INTELLIGENCE |
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With a PC WorldBench 2000 score of 97, the EZ2200 recorded below-average performance for a Celeron-500-based PC. It also ran slowly in 3D games and generated some banded images in Quake 3 Arena and Expendable. And because the CD-ROM and CD-RW drives are mounted vertically on the front of the case, placing a CD in either drive is cumbersome.
Top 5 power PCs for the home
- Gateway Select 800
- Dell Dimension XPS T650r
- Sony VAIO PCV-R549DS
- HP Pavilion 9690c PC
- Compaq Presario 5900Z-800
Top 5 mid-priced PCs for the home
- Dell Dimension L600r
- Quantex GX700
- Micron Millennia Max 600
- Quantex M650
- HP Pavilion 8660c PC
Top 5 budget PCs for the home
- Dell WebPC
- Gateway Astro
- CyberMax Enthusiast 500 CBG
- Quantex M466c
- Micron Millennia C466
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