Since its release in early 2003, AMD's Opteron server CPU has made great inroads almost everywhere... except with Dell. The CEO of Dell, Kevin Rollins, says that may very well be about to change, as the company is considering selling Opteron servers sooner rather than later.
"My guess is we're going to want to add that [AMD] product line in the future," Rollins said in an interview on Wednesday with InfoWorld editors. "They've been getting better and better. The technology is better. In some areas they're now in the lead on Intel. That is what is interesting us more than anything," he said.
This isn't the first time Dell has made noises about selling machines with AMD processors. In the past, such statements have been aimed primarily at extracting concessions from Intel, which currently supplies the CPUs for all of Dell's products. What leads many to believe that Dell isn't just blowing smoke this time is that the Opteron rules the commodity 64-bit server space, a fact not lost on Dell, which is the lone holdout among the major computer manufacturers when it comes to AMD. If Dell does begin offering AMD systems, even if they are confined to servers and high-end gaming boxes, it would be a still be major accomplishment for AMD.
News source: Arstechnica
"My guess is we're going to want to add that [AMD] product line in the future," Rollins said in an interview on Wednesday with InfoWorld editors. "They've been getting better and better. The technology is better. In some areas they're now in the lead on Intel. That is what is interesting us more than anything," he said.
This isn't the first time Dell has made noises about selling machines with AMD processors. In the past, such statements have been aimed primarily at extracting concessions from Intel, which currently supplies the CPUs for all of Dell's products. What leads many to believe that Dell isn't just blowing smoke this time is that the Opteron rules the commodity 64-bit server space, a fact not lost on Dell, which is the lone holdout among the major computer manufacturers when it comes to AMD. If Dell does begin offering AMD systems, even if they are confined to servers and high-end gaming boxes, it would be a still be major accomplishment for AMD.
News source: Arstechnica
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Oh dear what will Intel say?
oh and some people actully still think that software that they have won't run on a computer unless it has a Intel CPU!!! funny funny FUNNY
Dell also sells PCs with Intel Celerons, Intel PXA270s, Intel Pentium Ms, Intel Xeons, Intel Itanium 2s...
lol I got a dell amd system
jk
but still a interesting topic, they really need to offer both amd and intel they could boost there sales that way because there are people out there like me that prefer amd over intel, and amd make better gaming machines so there gaming series computers could be awesom with fx-55
heres some advice ev0 go suck a dick, just because you see something doesn't mean there a n00b and really im probly a lot smarter than you are... basic knowledge "developer" and I can make my own hardware and know what im talking about... soo ya cool its royale/energy bliss but looks damn better than luna does.
But, as AMD is so much better these days, I think that Dell should offer AMD.
Given a choice between Intel Prescott and AMD Winchester, I would choose AMD every time.
Still, my overclocked Northwood's still going strong for the time being.
They run much cooler than an Intel Prescott, so if Dell can cool those then AMD should be a doddle.
sempron > Celeron D
BTW, you could buy Athlon XP 2500+ barton for the same price, which is better then ANY celeron out there...
sure it's clockrate is low, but intel just can't beat AMD's performance, expecially at gaming...
Gaming benchmarks 1
Gaming benchmarks 2
The tech report
Last edited by 32155 on 12 Nov 2004 - 23:02
Some people are just so taken in with the Intel megahertz marketing machine!
Feelgood : 1999 was AMD hitting 1 Ghz before Intel. There were no 2.8 Ghz CPUs. Obviously you wouldn't know because you were only 8 in 1999. I was 24. kthanksbye ;0P
Last edited by 20597 on 12 Nov 2004 - 23:40
AMD : 1st Microprocessor company to hit 1 Ghz, 1st to introduce on die memory controller, 1st to introduce DDR memory, 1st company to have 64bit extensions, 1st company to use non clock based ratings.
Intel : Followed in all of the above (except we're still waiting on on die controller)
Has higher clock rates, but still has lower performance.
Who's a generic CPU ? what's that you say ? Yeah, I thought so.
Last edited by 20597 on 12 Nov 2004 - 23:33
You can't blatent generalizations then wait for someone to make proof, I did NOT say you were wrong, I said your statement was IGNORANT, which still holds.
no, i will not die. thanks for your concern.
and someone did make proof, enjoy. Besides, ever heard of google ?
Welcome to intel world, it really sucks. I am not buying any intel chip, unless they provide better performance/price ratio.
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