The budget PC market is one of those places where no one wants to admit going, but everyone does. Most of us have built a PC for our mom or sister or friend that needs nothing but the bare essentials and, oh, did they mention they want it dirt cheap? Such is the life of a modern day PC enthusiast. That isn't a completely fair assumption of course as I have a system in my office that was considered a "budget" system when I built it to serve as a file server for benchmark purposes. These $500 and under machines have all kinds of uses and can facilitate bringing the digital world to just about everyone. Today we are going to be looking at two options for that budget system; one based on the Intel Celeron D processor and the other on AMD's newly announced Sempron family of processors.



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