Alienware has released the Intel-based MJ-12 8550i and the AMD-powered MJ-12 8550a workstations at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) 2007 in San Francisco. The MJ-12 8550i is loaded with the Quad-Core Intel Xeon Processors 5300 series, while the Alienware MJ-12 8550a is equipped with the AMD Opteron 2000 Series.
“Available in single and dual-processor customizations, the MJ-12 8550i features up to eight total processing cores and delivers 50 percent greater performance than previous-generation Intel Xeon processor-based workstations. Both the MJ-12 8550i and MJ-12 8550a are also packed with up to four 15,000 RPM Serial Attached SCSI hard drives to optimize storage space and data access speed. For memory and graphics-intensive applications, the two workstations are configurable with up to 16GB of DDR2 memory, along with advanced NVIDIA Quadro FX and ATI FireGL graphics. User convenience and comfort is emphasized, too, thanks to hot-swap drive bays and Alienware Acoustic Dampening”, Alienware’s press release says.
Alienware’s new workstations ship with 32-bit or 64-bit Windows XP Professional.
The Alienware MJ-12 8550i and MJ-12 8550a both have starting price of $2,499.
