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Rick Rizner, John Goddard
The ZT Group's business-oriented ZT A5305 is the first system we've tested for the Top 15 Desktop PCs chart that runs AMD's Sempron processor, which is aimed at low-priced systems. At $618 with a 17-inch CRT (it's been awhile since we saw one of those), the A5305 is certainly low-priced. But proving the adage that you get what you pay for, the A5305 earned a WorldBench 5 score of just 63, powered by its 1.83-GHz AMD Sempron 2600+ CPU and 256MB of RAM--the lowest score reported so far. As for basic display capabilities, the 17-inch Envision EN-775e CRT likewise did poorly. We found...