First Intel dual-core PCs to ship tomorrow "monday 18th of april"

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Santa Clara (IL) - Intel made it official on Friday: The company confirmed that system builders will start offering dual-core computers next week. The PCs will be based on the Pentium Extreme Edition 840 processor.

AMD won the Gigahertz race five years ago, so Intel apparently did not want to second with the dual-core introduction again. Intel's PR department announced in a surprising email that dual-core PCs will be shipping from OEMs on Monday, April 18. System builders participating in the launch will be Dell, Alienware and "a couple of others", according to the message.
Intel however defines this "launch" as consumers being able "to fulfill their PC orders starting". Accordingly, the official launch of the dual-core processors will not happen on Monday.

Intel did not provide further details. Monday's introductions are also likely to be limited to the high-end Pentium 4 Extreme Edition 840. Dell and Alienware already announced systems that integrate the processor. Pricing has not been officially unveiled yet, but Intel is reported to position its Extreme Edition at the very high end and around $1000 per processor - resulting in PC system pricing starting at about $3000.

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Miami (FL) - PC maker Alienware announced that it will be "soon" offering performance PCs based on Intel's fastest dual-core Smithfield processor, the Pentium 4 Extreme Edition 840. The company expects the processors and PCs to be available in limited quantities initially.

Shortly after Dell's Dimension XPS Gen5 announcement, Alienware now also has confirmed that it will be shipping performance PCs based on Intel's dual-core Extreme Edition "soon." The companies as well as Intel declined to specify "soon", but according to media reports, an announcement for the dual-core chips and the PCs could be expected by the end of May.

Alienware will offer three different desktops, the more mainstream-like Area-51 5500 desktop, the MJ-12 5500 workstation as well as the Area-51 ALX enthusiast system. Alienware promises buyers of the new systems "breakthrough performance for gaming, digital content, and other demanding applications." Alienware however conceded that the new dual-core system won't outrun the fastest single-core systems, as long as multithreaded applications are not available.

The systems are built on the 955X chipset and the Pentium 4 Extreme Edition 840 (3.2 GHz) with 2 MByte L2 cache and 800 MHz FSB. The systems will be offered with supporting technologies such as DDR-2 667 memory. Alienware said that it will follow the dual-core transitioning path set by the processor manufacturers and expects to be dual-cores to be available in limited quantities at their introduction.

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gline

is that dual 3.2ghz extreme editions on one die??? that would be KICKASS oc'd on phasechange

astrofool

anyone around here stupid enough to buy one of these?

gline

astrofool wrote:

anyone around here stupid enough to buy one of these?

emmmm....???? LOL
id love to but id rather see comparisons to AMDS version

Dempsey

gline wrote:

is that dual 3.2ghz extreme editions on one die???

That is a Dual Core CPU. I'd like to get see the Cell processor thats going to be used in the PS3 released for PC's. That CPU is very impressive and would be the choice of gamers/overclockers.

gline

Dempsey wrote:

That is a Dual Core CPU. I'd like to get see the Cell processor thats going to be used in the PS3 released for PC's. That CPU is very impressive and would be the choice of gamers/overclockers.

i thought that was supposed to be limited in what can be programed for it??

Creamy Goodness

$1000, you'd have to have won the lotto or just be sad to blow that much on a cpu tbh.

gline

Cremo wrote:

$1000, you'd have to have won the lotto or just be sad to blow that much on a cpu tbh.

my current one was about 500-600 euro = about 800 dollars

so a month or 2 u could pick one up for the same

Dempsey

I hasnt been tested with Windows but they were hopeful that it was. This was 2 months ago when they first announced the cell CPU.