Alienware workstation uses Woodcrest instead of opteron.

I find this interesting in light of the rumored hard-on that Dell supposedly has for AMD here lately.
Any guesses on which cpu alienware gaming pc's will use after July 23?

Linkage

I have become so annoyed with the crap 9-inch has been posting lately, that I just couldn't resist the opportunity to annoy him back.

This is because Alienware have independence to choose the best product on the market.... ATM Woodcrest is that product.

I just LOVE the chart on the right side of the page, so technical and precise. 3x!!!!111!!one!1!!

Anyway, not surprising that dell was just drooling over trying to override AW's use of AMD chips (they're putting them in about half the systems it looks like). And of course, they've already made the site exactly like dell's (UGH).

I don't know about you all, but I'm fresh out of faith in AW now that it is just a dell clone...

STFU, MoronBatrix or you'll be owned again.

Actually, I have no problem with him posting news. What annoys me is the following:


A.) the short one or two sentence comment that he puts under the news quote that is usually contradictory to the information that is actually in the article (does he actually even read it before he copies/pastes)

B.) quoting rumors from the inquirer like they are absolutely factual.

C.) completely abandoning the thread once he is challenged on his analysis of the article.


Im sure there are other reasons as well. I will edit them in as I remember them.

Oh and Baron, which job are you at today?

STFU, MoronBatrix or you'll be owned again.


Wanna bet I'll be around?

No one expects AMD to get 100% of the PC sales. I said Woodcrest will make a better wksta than svr. at worst AlienWare - if Dell ets them have the Core 2s - will just have an Intel chip worth putting in a baming box.


You are the shouters of doom and gloom.

In the first benchmarks I have seen using 64 bit software it looks like there is a bit of a role reversal from 32 bit. Digit-life finds the FX60, the FX64. and the E6700 in a dead heat on CAD /CAE work. The only reservation I have is on the memory used for the FX-60 is Infineon B6 which is not a good choice for the A64 line. Latency is about 65-70ns. With good TCCD or Winbond UTTor BH-5 you can easily go sub 39ns. My conclusion is that with decent memory only the E6700 is a match for the opteron series which we have been able to buy for a year now in work stations. In web servers and data collation Intel has a HUGE win. http://www.digit-life.com/articles [...] 3-ghz.html

I think that the bigger question is going to be who can get the opteron cores. Cray has just been awarded the contract for what will be the largest supercomputer in the world to go at Oak Ridge National Labs. 1 petaflop. That ttakes about 100,000 opterons. The upgrade of the existing machine to 250 tteraflops will suck up to 25,000 additional opterons. That is only at Oak Ridge. Sandia has already announced that they are upgrading Red Storm to 100teraflops. That is another 7500 opterons. Cray will use 132,500 dual core opterons in two projects. It is not becasue Woodcrest was not availbe for comparisoon. Intel delivered Woodcrest samples for engineering evaluation as part of the RFP.
http://www5.sys-con.com/read/236783.htm

Alienware may be assuming(rightly I think) that opteron cores will be on allocation. The supercomputer market is going to be where the big profits are in the next 2-3 years and that is donimated by IBM with about 50% in z-core chips and power chips, then AMD opterons at about 35-40% of announced sales AMD chips with 1mb cache per core are going to be tight. No 1 mb cache cores for the desktop unless you pay a premium price to compete with Cray, HP, Sun, and Dell. Top of the line chips in this area sell for $2200 a piece.

http://alienware.com/Configurator_ [...] KU-DEFAULT

"Estimated Ship Date

Monday, August 07, 2006"

Looks like Alienware doesn't have the chip

http://img322.imageshack.us/img322 [...] mia4tv.jpg

ETA Aug 4
WOW, Shakira.....I was not expecting that you will take a part in any discussion. You only uesed to post BS and gone before you got toasted.
Anyway I don't care about Woodcrest and I will probably never buy one. I want to buy a new rig in September, and too sad for you it will not be AMD. I will use my K8 as file server. It will perform excelent for that purpose becouse it will have 2x4 drives in RAID 0+1. And guess what will be my next rig?

Wow, you're lucky I have respect.

Who are you trying to fool? Everyone here who has eyes to read your posts knows you have no respect for anyone...not even your deceased parents who you so disgustingly flaunted their passing in another thread in an attempt to deflect criticism of your antics.

Nice link. I had been looking for some benches in 64-bit. It looks like Intel is able to perform very well in 64-bit after all.

It's interesting, Intel fanboys now cheer every time when a former Intel customer keeps using Intel, as if they expected everyone to switch to 100% AMD now.

Actually, in time, they will. AMD is now capacity contrained.

http://sharikou.blogspot.com/2006/ [...] aunch.html

I think Alienware would showpiece Conroe regardless of Dell... To much of an enthusiast CPU not too... even Shakira shakes her booty to it... albeit privately

Wow. A legitimate link. 8O

First off you'll soon learn that "validity" and "Sharikou" are rarely used in the same sentence. This guy normally post a ridiculous thread and then leaves without defending it in hopes that you'll follow him to his blog. He very rarely backs up his claims with legitimate links and normally links to his own blog or lately to imageshack. The only "journalism" that I have seen is his blog. I would assume that he gets the info that he posts on his blog from somewhere, but he refuses to link to any of those sources. This leads most to believe that he makes it up as he goes along.

STFU, MoronBatrix or you'll be owned again.


Wanna bet I'll be around?

And I'll be right there shadowing you to expose your every flaw. But those are easy for everyone to see anyway.



Stay on topic and get a life.

I was referring to the recent threads were a bunch of AMD fanboys(probably yourself) got all excited when news broke that Dell was buying Alienware. Your right that I hadn't checked Alienware's site for Intel products(never really cared for their high prices) so you did "educate" me in that respect. This is very much in contrast to your usual posts that normally have no credible links. Why do you think it's acceptable to post news and then link to your own blog or to imageshack? As a "journalist" do you really feel that these are unbiased, credible sources?

Ycon.... you never post anything worth reading.... give it a try.... everyone will appreciate it.

You Intel fanbois really need to get some IQ and learn how to read a web page. Alienware has been selling AMD and Intel workstations all along.

Intel Xeon Paxville and P4 D stuff as well as Opteron stuff

http://www.alienware.com/product_p [...] .aspx?cs=4


So, what made you boys so excited? A Woodcrest workstation available in August?

Dude, I would really like to order a Woodcrest and see how much Opteron can whack Intel's guerilla benchmarketing. Guess what? Intel folks are so good at this hit-n-run, hide-n-seek guerilla warfare, Woodcrest is nowhere to be found. The earliest ETA date is somewhere in August. So all we have now is a bunch of anonymous kiddies posting CPU-Z screens and SuperPI screen dumps on internet forums ...

This is not just sad for a company like Intel, it's pathetic.

Almost as bad as some kid posting a bunch of random photos from imageshack and linking to his own self serving blog.

A baming box is a game box with speakers built in, er rather, hammered on. This gives a clue about the Baron's "laboratory".

"One thing I don't understand is this: what is good about Intel?

That company represents everything that is wrong."

BTW, It realys sounds like u got a personal issuse with Intel, as a "journalist" you would be fired in a second for this, please leave your bias at the door.

Did Intel shag your girlfriend?

Like the fact they make money?