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Message: <blockquote data-quote="drothgery" data-source="post: 3397642" data-attributes="member: 360">Just a few quick notes on what's changed since then...AMD's continued to slash CPU prices, and has bumped up clock speeds, so now most Athlon 64 X2s are competitive with the Core 2 Duo in the same price range; the ~$225 model is now the 5200+, rather than the 4200+, which gets you another 400 MHz.The price of their recommend video card -- a GeForce 7950GT -- has dropped slightly, and the 320 MB version of the GeForce 8800 GTS has been released at just under $300.... and on what's likely to happen soon (in the next 3-6 months) in the consumer desktop spaceAMD's ATi division is expected to- launch their line of DirectX 10 video cards (Radeon 2xxx)nVidia is expected to- launch their midrange and low-end DirectX 10 video cards (lower-end GeForce 8xxx)- possible release a tweaked high-end card, depending on how ATi's new cards stack up to the 8800 seriesIntel is expected to- make some small improvements to its high-end parts (move to 1333 MHz FSB, top-end model goes from 2.93 GHz to 3 GHz and uses less power)- introduce a low-end, single core Core 2 variant (800 MHz FSB, 1 MB L2 cache) sold as the Celeron 4xx; this will replace the current Pentium 4-derived Celerons- introduce a low-midrange, dual core Core 2 variant (800 MHz FSB, 1 MB L2 cache) sold as the Pentium E2xxx; this will replace the current Pentium 4 and Pentium D- make some major price cuts</blockquote>