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AW and Falcon drop out of CGW Competition

post #1 of 14
1/16/05 at 7:09am
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Here's an interesting article on why Alienware and Falcon Northwest dropped out of the Computer Gaming World "Ultimate Gaming Machine" competition. This was the first time ever that Falcon didn't submit a machine. In a nutshell AW and Falcon got a threatening letter from Intel about overclocking their CPUs. It's an interesting read.

http://www.falconfanpage.com/
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post #2 of 14
1/16/05 at 1:56pm
then whos left for the UGM?

voodoo, and... hypersonic? thats it?

F that. F intel. F them all. The owner of intel needs to get F'ed hardcore. but that doesnt explain why they droped out of the UGM... because they knew they would lose without overclocked processors? wtF.
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post #3 of 14
1/16/05 at 3:58pm
voodoo rocks...I took the rest out cause everyone starts saying im anti alienware. im NOT...im just saying if you read up on customer satisfaction voodoo and falcon are through the roof....its a fact, not my opinion.

alienware makes cool computers too, but if were talking high high end, and best in every category, tis pretty known that voodoo and falcon are hard to touch.
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post #4 of 14
1/17/05 at 2:08am
What the hell are you talking about? He posted about Alienware and Falcon dropping out of the UGM competition. Not who you think the REAL number ones are, of which I have not the slightest idea where you got that information, nor do I want to know.
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post #5 of 14
1/17/05 at 2:18am
He's just seems to be anti-AW and loves to express it every chance he gets. Don't mind him.
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post #6 of 14
1/17/05 at 3:19am
I still think that is messed up Intel would do that considering AMD is there competition and would want to showcase there CPU lineup to the world the best they can. It makes you wonder what kind of letter Intel recieved before they sent this out to Alienware and Falcon, makes you wonder where it all started.
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post #7 of 14
1/17/05 at 3:55am
Why wouldn't Intel want Falcon and AW to overclock their processors? I still don't get it. Overclocking it wouldn't wouldn't really tint their brand name, would it? Will someone shed some light. I read the article, but I just don't get it.
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post #8 of 14
1/17/05 at 9:44am
Yeah thats B.S........but I was hoping Falcon and AW didn't win anyway....its voodoo baby!!!! They just got the machine. Even their mousepads are extreme.....
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post #9 of 14
1/17/05 at 10:53am
This sort of thing makes me want to go AMD (which I will be doing in a few months )

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Originally Posted by mcyi
Yeah thats B.S........but I was hoping Falcon and AW didn't win anyway....its voodoo baby!!!! They just got the machine. Even their mousepads are extreme.....
What's so special about Voodoo mousepads?
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post #10 of 14
1/17/05 at 11:21am
intel doesnt want companies to overclock their processors for a lot of reasons
1. people will think, "well if that company can overclock then i can to" this is bad for intel because a lot of people will start overclocking their machines and a good precentage will burn out their CPU, thats a mess for intel
2. people may get the idea that if one of the intel machines one, they would feel that they "cheated" by overclocking, therefore people would lose trust in intel, and that means less sales.
3. overclocking voids the warrenty with falcon to intel, so falcon makes their own warrenty for the consumer, this somehow translates into intel losing money, but falcon profits from it, hard to explain.
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post #11 of 14
1/17/05 at 1:00pm
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Originally Posted by Astu222
intel doesnt want companies to overclock their processors for a lot of reasons
1. people will think, "well if that company can overclock then i can to" this is bad for intel because a lot of people will start overclocking their machines and a good precentage will burn out their CPU, thats a mess for intel
2. people may get the idea that if one of the intel machines one, they would feel that they "cheated" by overclocking, therefore people would lose trust in intel, and that means less sales.
3. overclocking voids the warrenty with falcon to intel, so falcon makes their own warrenty for the consumer, this somehow translates into intel losing money, but falcon profits from it, hard to explain.
What are you talking about Astu??? #1 makes sense....#2 and #3 sound like something DB would mumble after a long night out....figure it out!!

Intel doesnt want overclocked P4's going out cause it makes them look like they are ripping you off if you buy a "Regular" P4...like "they can go higher..why dont you sell it to me higher since im already paying for the pentium name?".

Its all a sales/image issue...nothing to do with warranty returns. they contract like 10 million intel P4's to Dell and Gateway every 14 seconds..and 1% of those people might even have a small idea how to overclock...

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post #12 of 14
1/17/05 at 8:30pm
The other 99% percent go into their BIOS and randomly jack up the multiplier.
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post #13 of 14
1/17/05 at 9:37pm
Doesn't Dell lock the multiplier so you can't OC?
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post #14 of 14
1/17/05 at 9:55pm
This doen't really make any difference to me since I'll always be buying AMD anytime I get a computer. Until Intel comes with dual core before AMD does, I will be a AMD person.
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