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Back-to-School Desktop Deals You'll Want to Avoid
PC World - Aug 17, 2006 and pretty much any other build-to-order vendor will let you configure a $1000 PC with everything you'll find from a retail box, plus the much faster CPU.

AMD + ATI and CPU/GPU integration
Ars Technica, MA - Jul 24, 2006 article: "platformization" ala Intel, which would better enable the combined company to compete on the corporate desktop, and system-level CPU-GPU integration.

Dual-CPU kits for '4x4' to sell for under a grand
The Tech Report, LLC - Jul 26, 2006 Regardless, the idea behind 4x4 is a good one: to give enthusiasts a crack at getting to larger numbers of CPU cores sooner by fostering the development of dual

AMD slashes high-end CPU prices up to 61%
Australian Personal Computer, Australia - Jul 24, 2006 The chip manufacturer has slashed its CPU prices overnight in an attempt to regain some market momentum from Intel, whose Core 2 Duo (Conroe) chip was was

AMD dominates 4 and 8 socket at Linux World
ZDNet, Germany - Aug 17, 2006 But if the power consumption is roughly equal and you're getting four cores on a single CPU package that fits in to a single CPU socket, it won't really matter