nagus
2005-05-05, 14:37:54
source: http://geocities.com/xaveon_xt/The_Xaveon.htm
Some of the details have changed since and/or need clarification:
(1) The ATI Xaveon with multiple VPU setups (i.e. AMR) is for real, and a small in-house demonstration showed the XPS hooked up to four – yes, 4 of Dell’s 24” LCD’s! They seemed to be running at their native resolution of 1920x1200, even with games.
Half-Life 2 does not run multiple monitors correctly as of yet, but updates to the Source engine with the Aftermath expansion will indeed do up to three monitors. We did see Far Cry running on three monitors with a couple of minor glitches, but that showed great potential. They was no clarification about AA or FSAA at that time, but the monitors were all set to 1920x1200.
The Xaveon will be released in four flavors – Xaveon XT, Xaveon Pro, Xaveon, and Xaveon HD. ATI claims a consistent 60% to 95% increase in game performance with AMR, and a full 2.5x increase over two GeForce 6800 Ultras in SLI mode. The Xaveon HD of particular interest will ship at speeds slightly lower than the XT, but will include ATI’s unannounced Theatre 600HD chip – and that name says it all. The Xaveon series will be launched by other manufacturers at the same time.
(2) The Soundblaster Audigy 3 was not on target, and will not be released until approximately Q4. Last I heard, it will come under a different name. The newer ad is with an Audigy 4 Pro.
(3) The Special Edition Pentium 4 is a single-core processor running default at 4.0GHz. It will apparently ship with the 955X Chipset in very, very limited quantities. The 4MB L2 Cache is wrong, and will only be 2MB. But this processor runs at 3990MHz with H/T on a 1066MHz FSB. Dell claimed it would outrun the upcoming Athlon 64 FX 57 on almost all gaming benchmarks. It was also possible Dell would include overclocking similar to the Pentium D 840 EE. Please note that only Dell will be selling this CPU! If you thought Dell was in bed with Intel before, consider this their lovechild.
(4) Dell includes a mounting bracket to convert one of the external drive slots into a fourth internal hard-drive slot, allowing for the advertised 4-drive setup. Dell might also offer RAID 5 support for this setup.
(5) WD is ready to ship a 146GB version of its 10,000RPM Raptor line, although the drives will cost over $400 each. The drives have native command queuing and will perform even better than the current 74GB versions. Dell seems to have an exclusive on this one for at least a month. There was also initial talk about a 500GB 7200RPM release, but that has been postponed.
(6) The S-ATA version of the DVD±RW drives with the larger cache is everything short of confirmed, and will be manufactured by Samsung. Klipsch seems ready to release their new 7.1 system. This will also remain a Dell exclusive until Q4. The Logitech MX1100 is being renamed to the MX1000 Pro, and the Cordless Elite will carry a Dell branding. Microsoft Plus! 2005 has been canned until the release of Longhorn.
The graphic was last modified on March 27, and used older source material including the monitors and tower. Newer versions of this wallpaper will surface with Dell’s new sub-site – www.dellgamer.com when it is launched.
Some of the details have changed since and/or need clarification:
(1) The ATI Xaveon with multiple VPU setups (i.e. AMR) is for real, and a small in-house demonstration showed the XPS hooked up to four – yes, 4 of Dell’s 24” LCD’s! They seemed to be running at their native resolution of 1920x1200, even with games.
Half-Life 2 does not run multiple monitors correctly as of yet, but updates to the Source engine with the Aftermath expansion will indeed do up to three monitors. We did see Far Cry running on three monitors with a couple of minor glitches, but that showed great potential. They was no clarification about AA or FSAA at that time, but the monitors were all set to 1920x1200.
The Xaveon will be released in four flavors – Xaveon XT, Xaveon Pro, Xaveon, and Xaveon HD. ATI claims a consistent 60% to 95% increase in game performance with AMR, and a full 2.5x increase over two GeForce 6800 Ultras in SLI mode. The Xaveon HD of particular interest will ship at speeds slightly lower than the XT, but will include ATI’s unannounced Theatre 600HD chip – and that name says it all. The Xaveon series will be launched by other manufacturers at the same time.
(2) The Soundblaster Audigy 3 was not on target, and will not be released until approximately Q4. Last I heard, it will come under a different name. The newer ad is with an Audigy 4 Pro.
(3) The Special Edition Pentium 4 is a single-core processor running default at 4.0GHz. It will apparently ship with the 955X Chipset in very, very limited quantities. The 4MB L2 Cache is wrong, and will only be 2MB. But this processor runs at 3990MHz with H/T on a 1066MHz FSB. Dell claimed it would outrun the upcoming Athlon 64 FX 57 on almost all gaming benchmarks. It was also possible Dell would include overclocking similar to the Pentium D 840 EE. Please note that only Dell will be selling this CPU! If you thought Dell was in bed with Intel before, consider this their lovechild.
(4) Dell includes a mounting bracket to convert one of the external drive slots into a fourth internal hard-drive slot, allowing for the advertised 4-drive setup. Dell might also offer RAID 5 support for this setup.
(5) WD is ready to ship a 146GB version of its 10,000RPM Raptor line, although the drives will cost over $400 each. The drives have native command queuing and will perform even better than the current 74GB versions. Dell seems to have an exclusive on this one for at least a month. There was also initial talk about a 500GB 7200RPM release, but that has been postponed.
(6) The S-ATA version of the DVD±RW drives with the larger cache is everything short of confirmed, and will be manufactured by Samsung. Klipsch seems ready to release their new 7.1 system. This will also remain a Dell exclusive until Q4. The Logitech MX1100 is being renamed to the MX1000 Pro, and the Cordless Elite will carry a Dell branding. Microsoft Plus! 2005 has been canned until the release of Longhorn.
The graphic was last modified on March 27, and used older source material including the monitors and tower. Newer versions of this wallpaper will surface with Dell’s new sub-site – www.dellgamer.com when it is launched.