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Intel Dual-Core Systems Begin Shipping Monday
ThinSkin writes "The wait for Intel's dual-core processor is over, that is if you're willing to fork over some dough for a Dell or Alienware system bundled with the chip. Intel just announced that Monday marks the first day dual-core systems hit the market with Dell's Precision 380 workstation and its next generation Dimension XPS desktop, which start at $2,999. PC Magazine got a chance to play with the XPS system and came away quite impressed."
If I had points, I'd mod you up.
...on second thought, dual-core is a perfect fit for Alienware. ;)
...not like any self-respecting gamers are buying Intel these days, anyways. ;)
There is absolutely no reason any gamer should even be considering a dual-core CPU. I can understand Dell selling these things in workstations, but Alienware? Don't they sell excessively overpriced gaming systems full of gimmicky garbage to woefully underinformed consumers?
Seriously, though, some of these reviewers, especially the one linked the the article, need a good, swift kick to the groin. Games are almost universally single threaded these days. Spending $1000 or so on a dual-core P4EE is going to lead to drastically worse performance in gaming than a run-of-the-mill, say, 3.2ghz P4.
Anyways, good post - dual-core can have some solid benefits on the workstation end of things, but as far as gaming goes, they should be avoided. I mean, if you're a gamer and you need to go for a gimmick, get SLI. At least you get a benefit to spending all that money, then.