PCs based on Intel’s dual-core Pentium processor
Hardware News April 6th, 2005
PCs based on Intel’s dual-core Pentium processor
It is the turn of the microprocessor giant Intel to have some laughs over their competitor AMD, as computers based on their dual code processors would soon started appearing in the stores. Velocity Micro is one of the first firms to have developed these monsters, which are equipped with the Intel’s Pentium 4 Extreme Edition 840 processor. The computers come powered by processors with speeds up to an incredible 4 GHz.
The company has released Raptor DCX model aimed towards the gamers while ProMagix DCX multimedia machine and the ProMagix W140 DCX developed more for professional users. However, these computers have competition from the computers powered by the AMD-based 64-bit processors available in the market for quite sometime now.
Velocity is also promoting their LiquiCool fluid cooling system with these new computers. The cooling technology let the computer makers offer speeds up to 4 GHz on these systems though the company is offering them with 3.2GHz default speed. Pricing is not decided yet as the company expects to deliver these into the late second quarter of the current year.
Along with Velocity, Dell and other computer hardware giants are expected to launch similar high-powered machines in the coming times.
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Tags: AMD, dual core processors, Intel, Pentium 4 Extreme Edition 840, ProMagix DCX, ProMagix W140 DCX, Raptor DCX, Velocity Micro
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Are you using an Intel press release as news? Did they pay you to say this stuff? How is 4GHz “incredible,” unless you are just coming out of the dark ages? I won’t be coming back to biased reporting.
It would have been more informative to include some information about benchmarks as a way of gauging performance increase offered by the new dual core processors. Is the liquid cooling essential or precautionary?
For a good background on the Intel Dual Core CPUs, check out Anand’s articles, part I and II:
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2388
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2389
The dual core Intel CPUs are not for gaming. Further, this technology is simply two Prescott cores hastily “glued” together, whereas the AMD Opteron and Athlon 64 CPUs were originally designed specifically to facilitate dual core-when the market is ripe-which is happening now.
The first glimpse of AMD dual core architectural superiority will be when we see dual core Opterons wipe out any last small performance advantages held by current Xeons and P4s, typically media encoding. Dual Core Opterons will handily surpass Xeons in this last Intel performance stronghold. After this, the only reason one would want to choose the Xeon over the dual Opteron platform will be to heat the room.
There will be no other viable reason: Xeons will be lower performance in nearly every possible benchmark, produce much more heat, the platform will not be upgradeable to dual Xeon cores when available. Keep your eyen on Yonah, the dual core Pentium M in the future. For now, Intel can mold and shape the aged Prescott/Netburst P4 core into whatever they want, its still going to be architecturally inferior to AMD64 K8 cores-and it shows it.
Further, the dual core Intel CPUs require a new motherboard and socket specs, which are not even on the market yet. On the AMD side, current socket 939 motherboards will support dual core “Toledo” 90nm, low power/low heat, SSE3 cores when released in the Fall-with a simple bios flash. If you think the dual core P4s look good now, wait until you see these Intel hack-jobs get soundly thrashed across the board come Fall. Read Anand’s articles and this will all make more sense.
We should see the dual core Opterons widely available sometime before June.
@How is 4GHz �incredible”
News reporting is based on facts provided by the company. Who has said that this processor is going to outperform the rival’s products when they are not even available in the market.