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November 17th, 2008
Intel®
Core®
i7 “Nehalem”
The Intel®
Core® i7 new processors are available on
our Xi® MTower™ desktop series, both
workstation and gamer edition. This new
group of processors is a solid step
forward in performance and capabilities.
A real quad core on a die, 751 million
transistors, eight execution threads
(revamping the hyper-thread technology),
8MB L3 cache, up to 6.4GT/s QuickPath™
(replacing the old FSB concept),
sophisticated power management,
turbo-boost and on chip triple channel
memory controller, make this new Intel
Core i7 series the most innovative and
powerful processor on the market today.
@Xi® as an Intel® launch partner for
this great product we are offering two
motherboards capable of Crossfire™ and
double/triple SLI™ with unsurpassed
level of customization for the most
demanding users.
Configure yours now!
October 20th, 2008
Nvidia®
Quadro®
CX & CUDATM
@Xi® Computer, as one of the top Nvidia®
Quadro® supporter, we are proud to be
part of the introduction to this
revolutionary new line of Nvidia Video
cards using CUDATM
(Compute Unified Device Architecture)
technology. The new Quadro® CX, with
1.5GB of video memory and countless
sophisticated features, directly aimed
at DCC, takes fully advantage of CUDA
and allows new specific computational
and graphic routines to be written and
executed by the GPU (Graphic Processing
Unit) at a much faster speed than the
hosting CPU. Adobe® Premiere® Pro CS4 &
Adobe® After Effects® CS4 are among the
first application to take full advantage
of CUDA, with a huge performance
improvement. CUDA virtually works on all
Nvidia video cards and can take
advantage of multiple GPU installed on
the same system.
More info here!
More than a year ago we started offering
quieter but more powerful system
solutions, with the adoption of CPU water-cooling technology. The main
goal was to improve the thermal
convection of the stock CPU heat-sink,
while reducing the amount of noise
generated by the speedy cooling fan. We
just improved this concept with a new
revolutionary line of air-cooled
heat-sinks from Cooler-Master®, adopting
an massive amount of fin surface and
using a vertical, quiet 12cm fan. This
new technology combines the quietness of
the water-cooled approach, still
allowing a good amount of heat
extraction by keeping the air-flow from
font to back of the case. It also has an
even better thermal conveyance, compared
to the early water-cooling systems and
an intrinsically maintenance-free
reliability. With this improved
technology and Intel newest 45nm CPU, we
are currently offering an outstanding
4.50 GHz
Intel® Core®2 Duo E8600, or a Quad core
QX9770 at 3.60GHz, delivering
unsurpassed performance at a
great price!
With the advent of faster and more
powerful CPUs and video card, the need
for adequate case ventilation has been
quite a challenge. Our effort had paid
off with the newest offering of our Xi®
MTowerTM
HAF model. Dubbed by Cooler-Master®
HAF (Headquarters Air Force), this new
full tower case has the best ventilation
design available on the market, while
maintaining a very quiet noise
signature. Equipped with three huge, but
extremely quiet, 23cm fan plus one 14cm
back fan, this innovative case offers
the adequate amount of cooling to
reliably support a Triple SLITM
configuration with power hungry video
cards like the Nvidia®
GeForce® 9800GTX+, combined
with both single and dual processor
multi-cores CPU and high speed RAM.
Select your new fastest system ever,
right here!
February 14th, 2007
Vista™!?!
Is Microsoft® Vista™
really a new thing? Despite some
initial skepticism and critics, of
course it is new and innovative,
especially for the 64-bit version.
It will simply take time to
assimilate and perfect for
productive use. What that means in
plain words? Most of your old
applications will not run on Vista.
For example, AutoCAD® versions prior
to 2007 will, most likely, never
receive a patch or update to run on
Vista. ACAD 2007 and 2007/LT will
(possibly soon) get a patch only for
Vista 32-bit. The 2008 Versions will
run on both Vista 32 and 64-Bit, all
flavors from Home to Ultimate.
Expect the same behavior for other
old CAD and Game packages you
already own. If you really like to
get Vista now, we do recommend the
64-Bit versions. In the 32-bit Vista
versions, the memory limitation of
the old XP to 3GB (yes, even if you
have 4GB) is still there. With the
64-Bit version you can address
beyond 4GB to the max RAM offering
of our multiprocessor
Opteron™ and
Xeon® processors (32GB+), to
solve some of the memory swapping
problems of XP and improve
performance dramatically.
The time to upgrade is now!
Silent Water Cooled Cases and
OverClocking
As you know @Xi® we
strive for performance as well
reliability. For years powerful
computer workstations have not been
quiet to operate. With the
continuous increasing in clock
speed, RAM and Hard Drive capacity,
the amount of energy dissipated by
is constantly raising and with it,
the associated heat and noise.
Recently we teamed up with one of
the most advanced computer case
manufacturer (Thermaltake™) to
provide you with state-of-the-art
air and water-cooling technology.
Our line of MTower™ workstations
offers now, new revolutionary
solutions, like grid-mesh front
panels and quiet 12cm fans. To
further enhance the thermal
operational parameters of the CPU,
we are now offering a factory sealed
Water Cooling silent solution. While
eliminating the noise generated by
traditional CPU Heat-Sink fans, it
allows reliable faster clock
operation, beyond standard
manufacturer air-cooling
specifications. This is particularly
true for our MTower™ equipped with
the Intel® Core® 2 Duo and the EVGA®
Nvidia® 680i Chipset motherboards.
3.20GHz for the QX6700, is just an
example.
Check them out!
December 18th,
2006.
4x4 AMD Quad FX!
AMD®
is countering the Intel®
Quad-Core with a dual processor capable
motherboard ASUS®
L1N64, sporting 4 PCIe at 16x for the
ultimate SLI performance and un-buffered
DDR2 800MHz RAM among other goodies. The new
FX-70, FX72 and FX-74 come at 2.6, 2.8 &
3GHz clock speed with a performance above
the Opteron™ 2220 at basically almost half
the price. Even though preliminary
benchmarks still show the Intel holding the
absolute performance crown, this AMD
solution has few advantages of its own.
Among them are a competitive price for the
low-end clock and scalability to a second
dual core CPU at a later time, while the
multithread software is catching up. At the
FX-72 level, with 2 CPU installed, the
amount of power/heat to dissipate is quite
substantial and the price advantage is a bit
diminished by the extra cooling required. We
teamed up with Thermaltake™ with a Dual
Channel Air Guide case, the Armor™ Extreme,
to keep both processors cool and assure
future scalability to higher speed and 8
cores in 2007.
In Stock Now!
November 14th,
2006.
Quad-Core
Intel®
Revolution!
With today’s
announcement of the availability of the newest
and most revolutionary Quad-Core CPU, Intel®
sets a new industry-first record, and an
extremely remarkable technological achievement.
4 Cores, each one with its separate CPU and FPU,
sharing a dynamically allocated, whopping 8MB L2
Cache, are powering both the Core2 Duo®,
single processor, and XEON®
dual processor. This makes for a total
availability of 8 CPU cores on a single
motherboard, at a very aggressive price and
unsurpassed performance/price ratio. @Xi®
Computer we are offering a complete line of
these new CPU, both in single and dual processor
motherboards with configurations for Graphic
Workstations, HPC Clusters and Network Servers.
As you probably already know from our CADalyst
award winning, Xi MTowerTM
PCIe, and from other independent benchmark,
Intel is now leading the performance war with
AMD®
on absolute power per CPU as well the
Performance/price ratio.
Get your power selection now!
November 1st,
2006
The only HR
Workstation!
Award winning
performance is not unusual here at Xi®
Computer. The November issue of CADalyst
magazine delivered the prestigious *Highly
Recommended* award for our Intel®
based Core2 Duo®
Extreme edition, Xi MTower™
PCIe, the only one of the review roundup! Our
system, not only performed faster than the other
(correctly clocked) platforms, but showed the
current Intel superiority in the absolute
workstation performance vs. is AMD®
rival. @Xi commitment to excellence and platform
independence in the Workstation and HPC arena,
is once more time demonstrated by this great
achievement.
Get *your* award winning
system!
July 3rd
2006
@Xi®
TOP TIER 2006 Workstation!
Our MTower 64TM
SLI AMD®
Athlon based workstation has been rated by CADalyst
magazine as the only TOP TIER All Stars workstation
for the year 2006. This great achievement
underlines the ongoing Xi Computer tradition for
delivering the best performing and most reliable
computer workstations for the CAD industry. We recently
improved our line with quieter cases and power
supplies, while continuing to increase the
performance to new levels with the completely new
line of AMD Socket AM2 sporting DDR2 800 and 1000MHz
and nVIDIA®
Quadro®
FX 1500, FX 3500 and FX 5500 graphics.
All in stock now!
January 10th, 2006
@Xi® The Fastest & Best
Buy Dual Core in the "World"!
December
and January, we hold the #1 position of Best Buy and
fastest system score in
PC-WORLD with
our Xi® MTowerTM 64 AGE-SLI, with the AthlonTM
Dual Core 4800+ (2.4GHz) gives us the #1 spot with the
MTower AGE-SLI.
FX60,
Dual Core AthlonTM in Stock!
AMD®
announced today the availability of its fastest to date
Dual Core processor the Athlon FX60, clocked at 2.6GHz,
reaffirming his position as un-contrasted technology
leader of 64CPU in single and dual core flavor. The new
FX60 bears no direct comparison with an Intel®
counterpart, that's why it has been classified in the FX
series. As we receive this question so many times, here
it goes again: a Dual Core is a single chip containing
two CPU with it's own independent cache sharing the
memory controller that interfaces with the outer world.
The FX60 allows dual CPU power on a single processor
motherboard at a lever never seen before at such a
price. Gaming, graphics and CAD will all benefit from
this new technological break trough. As a newly proudly
appointed member of the elite "platinum" AMD
recognition, and FX60
Launch partner we are proud to offer the new
FX60 in stock at a
unbeatable price!
June 21st, 2005
@Xi® The Fastest Workstation!
We do not
have to change the title, dejavu again and again. While
our competitors tried to follow with the same
configuration (Intel® based) of the previous review, we
gave them a new lesson in the art of system integration.
Our Xi® MTowerTM
64SLI, with the AthlonTM
FX55 (2.6GHz) and NVIDIA® NForceTM 4 SLI chipset motherboard, QuadroTM
FX4400 PCIe got the fastest result on CADalyst
June
2005 Workstations Roundup review. CADalyst give us the fastest record-breaking score with
our
Xi® MTower 2P64 Workstation
dual
processor Opteron based.
Quite an impressive result, a dual CPU system is finally
outperforming the fastest single processors. Well, of
course @Xi Computer is the workstation leader! Any
doubts? OK, PC-WORLD gives us the #1 spot with
the MTower AGE-SLI, still same FX55 and same chipset,
with an NVIDA FX6800 Ultra, over 10% faster than the
second best... we are good! More confirmations? CATIA
community just did it's annual workstation roundup.
Guess who got 5 stars and the fastest system
performance? You can read it
here, requires a
free registration.
FX57, Dual
Core AthlonTM
& OpteronTM
AMD®
announced today the availability of its fastest to date
processor the Athlon FX57, clocked at 2.8GHz,
consolidating his position with the most powerful single
core CPU. That's just the beginning, we are just
shipping the first Dual Core 4400, 4800 AthlonTM
and the 270, 275 and 875 OpteronTM. Confusing? A Dual Core is a single chip containing two CPU
with it's own independent cache sharing the memory
controller that interfaces with the outer world. The
4400 and 4800 allows dual CPU power on a single
processor motherboard, a new level of affordability for
a workstation. The 270 and 275, being utilized on a dual
processor board, give you 4 (four) CPUs total. If you
have a multithread application that will take advantage,
or multiple applications competing for power, this it
the answer. Ultimately the 875 is a Dual Core CPU that
installed in our quad motherboard allows you 8 CPU
total. Never such power has been so affordable, dense
and reliable. The NVIDIA® GeForce 7800GTX and the
Intel® Pentium® D, Dual Core are among the other new
offerings.
They are all shipping now!
December 10th, 2004
@Xi®
The Fastest Workstation!
One more time again, our Xi®
MTowerTM
SP got the fastest result of all CADalyst November 2004
Workstations Roundup review. This achievement is quite
significant in several aspects: 1) The fastest result
using a 3.60GHz CPU clock speed vs. the second
competitor using a 3.80 GHz (costing much more), with a
virtually identical configuration, shows the @Xi
technological superiority in the workstation arena. Our
systems are not prepackaged overseas, but custom built,
tested and configured here in our labs in California,
with superior quality control and customization,
delivering a clear performance advantage. 2) When
comparing the price/performance ratio @Xi is the #1
workstation leader. 3) PCI-ExpressTM
with DDR2 are the clear winners even against more
performing video boards in the "old" AGP 8x, paving the
way for a "must have" new upgrade path.
Read the
CADalyst article
and
get your Fastest @Xi Workstation
here.
AMD
AthlonTM
64 PCIe & SLITM!
You can buy today the newest AMD AthlonTM
64 3500/3800/4000 and FX55 using the newest and most
revolutionary PCI-ExpressTM
interface. But there is more: using the ASUS A8N-SLI
motherboard, based on the NVIDIA®
NForce®
4 chipset, our Xi MTower Athlon has 2 PCIe interfaces
with SLI capability. Not only you can have 4 monitors
driven at high speed with Direct X and Open-GL, you can
use two video board to almost double the graphic
performance of your workstation. Preliminary results in
our labs give the AMD Athlon 4000+ simply using one PCIe
Quadro®
FX3400, ahead of our last month Intel®
based award winning system. Imagine when we could pair
two PCIe video boards to boast the overall graphic
performance! The fastest just got faster!
Get yours today.
October 26th, 2004
PCI-Express™
SLI™!
After careful testing we have validated PCI-Express™
based systems both single and dual processor based on the
Intel®
Pentium™
4 and XEON™
processors. Intel has been the promoter of this new graphic
interface that is initially capable of twice the bandwidth
of the AGP 8X "old" interface to 4Gbyte/sec. In addition to
a higher bandwidth, the PCI-Express interface allows easy
scalability with 2 PCI-E interfaces on the same motherboard.
The advantages are multiples: Better graphic performance,
balanced 3D performance with 4 screens configuration and the
ability to use Multiple Graphics Units (GPU) for a single
screen presentation. Nvidia®
is the leader in this concept with the introduction of the
SLI™
(Scalable Link Interface) concept offering unsurpassed
performance, by using multiple Graphic Processors resident
on multiple graphics cards. At present we offer a XEON™
based Xi®
MTower™
DPX with SLI™
dual PCI-Express™
technology with dual Nvidia®
Quadro™
FX 1300 and 3400. Single processor PCI-E technology is
coupled with DDR2 533MHz (over-clock-able to 600MHz) in our
Xi®
3600 MTower™
SP Pentium™
4 3.6GHz.
May it be next fastest workstation?
4000+ & FX55 Athlon™!
While Nvidia®
and VIA®
are both working to deliver a new PCI-E graphic interface
for the AMD Athlon™
and Opteron™
platforms, AMD is busy upping the raw CPU performance speed.
On the single processor front we just introduced the Athlon
64 4000+ (supposedly equivalent to a Pentium™
4 at 4GHz) and an Athlon™
64 FX55 clocked 200MHz faster at 2.6GHz bringing the CPU
computational power to a new absolute high level. Both
parts, besides the name, sports a dual memory interleave
controller and 1MB L2 Cache.
Buy yours from stock today!
Quad Opteron™
Server
By strong request from our most demanding
customers, we are now offering the Quad CPU configuration
for the AMD Opteron™
processor, both in the 24bays Xi®
NetRAIDer™
case with redundant power supply and in the Xi®
BladeRAIDer™
1U configurations. Offering scalability to 32GB of DDR
333MHz Reg. ECC RAM and 4 x AMD Opteron™
250 CPU with over 6 Tera-Byte of storage capacity for the
NetRAIDer™,
record computational density in the XI®
1U BladeRAIDer™.
Both Available now!
Better,
faster, more powerful and … more quiet!
In a constant race to deliver our customers
the fastest and more powerful line of computer workstations,
both single, dual and quad processors, we recently
implemented quite remarkable improvements to our lines.
Most of the adopted power supplies have thermo controlled
fan to reduce noise and higher power offering are available
as a standard or upgrade options to satisfy heavily
populated configurations with multiple drives, power hungry
video boards and CPUs. A new Xi®
MTower™
DP case is now being adopted for the dual processors XEON
and Opteron configurations to allow more expansion slots,
better ventilation and reduced amount of noise.
Intrusion-alarm, filtered front fans and fully locked panels
.are among other features of the new case.
Check them out!
September
8th, 2003
Xi
MTower 64 is the fastest CAD system with 64Bit Opteron™.
Since 1992 we
achieved this mark numerous times, but it is so nice to get it
one more time, setting the performance bar much higher in the
CAD Workstation arena. Our client will also appreciate that this
time we give back the honor to an AMD Opteron™ 64Bit
processor. CADalyst magazine. September 2003 issue, is
publishing an exclusive first look test in his labs, by
contributing editor Ron LaFon, showing our MTower™ 64 breaking
all CADalyst Benchmarks index to date. Ron is quoting: “The
@Xi MTower 64 embodies what we’ve come to expect from @Xi—a
speedy, economical, well-built, state-of-the-art system that
offers top-flight performance and new technology at a reasonable
price”. What
else we have to say? Buy your next workstation from @Xi and make
it a 64Bit!
April 22nd
2003
64Bit AMD Opteron™ is here!
@Xi® Computer Corporation, as an AMD Opteron™ Launch Partner, is proud to lead this technological revolution of powerful and innovative 64Bit Workstations, Servers and Clusters based on the 64Bit AMD Opteron Processor. The Opteron brings new unsurpassed levels of performance to the computing arena. The revolutionary multi-way HyperTransport, 1MB Cache, independent interleave memory banks per processor, 64Bit architecture, yet x86 compatible, are only the beginning of an incredible technological achievement. At launch time, perfecting our “Art of System Integration” and, one more time, demonstrating our technological Excellence, our Xi® BladeRAIDer™ 64 tested by AMD Zone, rated the fastest on most of the test, while some competitors could not even finish some (see the above graph from AMD Zone where our Xi Dual Opteron 244 and Xi Dual Xeon® are both surpassing the competition). @Xi Computer, we deliver the fastest 64Bit on the market, and we give you the best price!
Get your first 64Bit computer today!
“Memory bandwidth is where the Opteron should excel and here the XI box certainly does, but strangely the other two fall behind. The Athlon MP shows its memory bandwidth weakness in this test.” – Chris Tom, AMD Zone, 04-22-03.
December
6th, 2002
@Xi®
The Fastest CAD Workstation!
Did you hear it before? @Xi® Computer just got more
recognition as
The
Fastest CAD Workstation
by December 2002
CADalyst magazine, with the Xi 4286 MTower, equipped with the
Intel® Pentium4 2.80GHz and the newest Nvidia® Quadro4 980
with AGP 8X. The Xi MTower stands way above of all the CAD
competitors. Still a Best Buy and fastest on PC-WORLD too, we
are really setting the standard on Desktop and Workstation
performance! Now with the 3.06GHz Hyper Thread technology, even
faster!
@Xi®
gets 5 stars from PC-MAG
Did you notice we bundle some “free”’ software with our
workstations and desktops units? It is “free” but you have
just to say “yes, I want it” selecting it at time of order.
Most would think, because it is free that is almost worthless.
Think again! PC Magazine rates our @Xi free software bundles a 5
stars saying: - “Music:
( ) The Xi
system is one of the few to include MusicMatch Jukebox, which
handles MP3 and WMA ripping and burning with ease. - Music:
( ) Again,
PlayCenter impresses us.- Photos: ( ) Three
photo-editing applications come with the system: Ability
Photopaint Studio, Riptide Photo Studio, and Ulead Photo Express
4.0, which, while not a powerhouse, has the greatest number of
features. Overall, photo editing is quite easy, and two USB
ports are located on the front panel.” –PC Magazine, Nov. 6th,
2002.— This year we are also bettering our PC-Works Suite with
the new Millennium Edition, including Lotus Suite, Quicken,
McAfee, Open Office, with great compatibility and
interoperability with MS-Word, Excel and even PowerPoint, plus a
lot
more! And if you like
games… here
we go!
November
18th, 2002
3.06GHz Intel® P4 HT & Xeon™
@ 533FSB AGP-8X!
Intel® is leading on the single processor clock speed and again
the dual workstation class race with a Pentium® 4 @ 3.06GHz
with Hyper Threading technology, and a new Xeon™ processor
with a 2.80GHz with 533FSB. The Xi®
4036 MTower™ SP, has just been rated by C-NET as
the fastest business computer as we can see in the following
chart. The Xi®
5600 MTower™ DP, now is available at 533FSB with
the newest AGP-8X and up to 12GB DDR PC2100 RAM. More power
than before!
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4036 MTower Premiere (3.06GHz Intel P4, 533MHz
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Northwest Mach V (3.06GHz Intel P4, 533MHz
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To measure
application performance, CNET Labs uses BAPCo's SysMark2002, an
industry-standard benchmark. Using off-the-shelf applications,
SysMark measures a desktop's performance using
office-productivity applications (such as Microsoft Office and
McAfee VirusScan) and Internet-content-creation applications
(such as Adobe Photoshop and Macromedia Dreamweaver). ---Review CNET
©1995-2002 CNET, Inc.
CNET Review All rights reserved.
September
12th, 2002
2.80GHz
Intel® P4 & Xeon™
+ Xeon™ MP Quad!
Intel® is
doing it again leading the single processor clock speed and
remarkably the dual workstation class race with a Pentium® 4
and Xeon™ processor with a 2.80GHz part available now. The Xi®
4280 MTower™ SP, and the Xi® 5600 MTower™ DP,
are the fastest CAD workstations, only @Xi Computer Corporation.
More to the powerful workstations and servers we just introduced
a Quad (FOUR) processor XEON™ MP with a remarkable iL3 Cache
up to 1GB. That is, 4 CPUs with up to 4 GB on Level 3 cache and
1GB of Level 2 cache combined. The quad Xeon™ configuration is
available as a 4U Rack mount or on our big NetRAIDer™ server
case with 21 bays and up to 32GB or DDR RAM. Power to the
max!
August
21st, 2002
AMD®
breaks the 2GHz!
August
21st, 2002- AMD® breaks the 2GHz clock speed barrier,
celebrating the third anniversary of the award-winning AMD
Athlon™ processor and announcing the world's
highest-performing processor for desktop PCs, the AMD Athlon XP
processor 2600+ (clocked at 2.13 GHz). (& 2400+
clocked at 2 GHz) Our Xi® MTower™ has already been tested by
AMD Zone, as an absolute first with this processor, and compared
to the Intel Flagship 2.53GHz with RAMBUS® 1066MHz. The
results show AMD is taking back the lead of the
price/performance CPU war and Xi is giving you a full choice of
superior platforms to go with it. Buy
yours today!
Nvidia®
Quadro™ 4 & Xi®, the workstation leaders!
@Xi®
has been selling Nvidia® professional video boards for a while
and is now ranked the major tier-2 workstation manufacturer in
the US, by Cadence Magazine. There is no better price/
performance leader than @Xi Computer, with its line of
Dual processors Intel® XEON™ based and AMD Athlon™
MP based MTower™ workstations, using the Quadro™
4 Nvidia video boards. Check
our product section for your most powerful workstation ever!
May
6th, 2002
2.53GHz Intel® P4, 533MHz FSB, 1066MHz RDRAM or DDR333 with
Nvidia® Quadro™ 4
In the race for the fastest workstation we just introduced a remarkable configuration based on the top clock speed from Intel® and the 3D professional, Quadro™ 4 video board from
Nvidia®. 533MHz Front System Bus is now the highest available
with 2.53GHz top clock speed. To top it off our configuration is available now with the fastest
1066MHz RAMBUS® or DDR 333MHz PC2700 on the market. The Xi®
4253 MTower™ SP, with Intel Pentium® 4 @ 2.53GHz, DDR
333MHz or RAMBUS 1066MHz and the Nvidia® Quadro™ 4
900XGL, is the newest and fastest CAD workstations, only @Xi Computer Corporation.
Check it out!
2.40GHz Intel® XEON™, with
Nvidia® Quadro™ 4
One processor is not enough? Intel® is on the attack mode rising the clock bar speed for the dual processor too. The Xi® 4800 MTower™ DP, with two Intel XEON™ @ 2.4GHz, RAMBUS 800MHz, and the new 900XGL
Nvidia® Quadro™ 4, is the ultimate dual processor CAD workstations, only @Xi Computer Corporation.
Super price here!
March
13, 2002
AMD Athlon™ MP 2000+, XP 2100+ , DDR333 & GeForce™ 4 are all here!
March 13 2002
-The newest MTower DP Workstation line and NetRAIDer Server line
employing the AMD
Athlon™ MP processor at 2000+ Quantispeed™
technology and the AMD-760TM MPX chipset
are now available. On the single processor front, the AMD Athlon 2100+ with the absolute industry first VIA Apollo KT333 Chip Set mother board sporting the fastest 333MHz DDR333
RAM is also available! A combination of higher CPU clock speed and 66MHz more
on the memory bus delivers a quite remarkable performance increase at a fractional additional cost.
Finally, the newest video boards based on Nvidia® GeForce™
4 4400 and 4600 Chip Sets with 128MB DDR Video RAM are
here now, an astonishing performance level never seen before!
Check our product section for more info.
January 10th, 2002
Intel® Pentium® 4 @ 2.20GHz, DDR!
Intel® has done it again introducing the fastest clock speed for a microprocessor. To add more speed to it, the new Pentium® 4 has a double cache size to 512KB and finally supports the i845D Chipset with DDR (Double Data Rate) SDRAM. At the forefront of technology Xi Computer is offering a very fast and very cost effective 2.20GHz P4 DDR
now!
AMD Athlon™ XP 2000+
The Xi® 2000+ MTower SP up to 1.667 GHz to a new higher performance level. We complement this speed demon with the newest ATA133 RAID controllers and the newest video board for your best in the relentless game for
the fastest system.
November
11th, 2001
AMD
Athlon™ XP 1900+ is here!
The Xi® 1900+ MTower SP steps up another 100MHz in the relentless game for the fastest processor (at 1.600GHz internal clock speed). Considering that PC-WORLD found our Xi 1800+
to be faster than a 2 GHz Intel® Pentium® 4 processor from the competition, there is an easy answer to the question: "Which is the fastest?". While we will soon introduce a dual processor version (MP) of the 1900+, we complemented the newest Xi Mighty Tower with the
nVidia® Titanium™ series, sporting 64MB DDR at 3.8ns for the Ti500. New frontier in performance
today!
New Free Software Bundles!
For all our lines of Xi® MTower SP and DP workstations and PCs we now offer, at customer selection of very nice free software bundles (with computer purchase). The
PC-WORK-SUITE provides all the tools necessary to be productive in an office environment including the ability to produce and read file formats compatible with other major word processors, database and spreadsheet. Many other interesting and valuable programs are included. A great value! To please another important segment of our clients we also introduced another free bundle for image editing and video processing. Great complement to the newest line of
Audigy™ sound cards with included Fire Wire interface. Get your
Digital Image Toolkit free with your next Xi Computer!
October
9th, 2001
Hot New AMD® 1800+
Athlon™ XP
with Quantispeed™
is here!
@Xi Computer Corporation is announcing immediate
availability of the Xi 1800+ MTower SP. The Xi 1800+ is based on the newest
and fastest AMD single processor Athlon XP (code named “Palomino”)
processor, with a Quantispeed™
architecture of 1800+ (i.e. 1.533GHz internal clock
speed), and some extra advanced instruction sets. The new “Quantispeed”
architecture is aimed to work exceptionally well with the more powerful computational capability of
the "Palomino" core, it is designed to equal or exceed the performance of the Intel® Pentium®
4 processor, that is currently available up to 2.0GHz. From our internal lab
tests we found that the Quantispeed estimate of 1.8GHz par, is very conservative. Our
Xi 1.533GHz Athlon XP based system, coupled with the newest VIA KT266A DDR
Motherboard, is much faster than a 1.8GHz P4 and comes with a new Xi "Mighty
Tower" case with front USB ports… We have them in stock now!
October
9th, 2001
4.0GB DDR RAM for the AMD®
Athlon™ MP Dual Processor!
@Xi Computer, always committed to the high end dual processor workstation and server market, is delivering with immediate
availability, up to 4GB (4096MB) of 266MHz DDR ECC Registered RAM for the
AMD Athlon MP Dual Processor line. Unsurpassed price/performance levels can
be achieved for power hungry users with this huge amount of DDR RAM.
This mark another industry first by Xi Computer in the dual processor arena.
Here today!
October
9th, 2001
Dual Processor Intel® 2.0GHz
Xeon™ "Foster"
Intel® still holds the highest CPU clock speed record, also in the
Dual Processor. The
Xi MTower DP Xeon
our fastest RAMBUS® based
Xeon™ "Foster" system is now available at 2.0GHz. A full 4GHz dual processor capable is
Here now!
June
6th, 2001
FASTEST EVER: 1.4GHz AMD Athlon!
Newest and fastest AMD® Athlon™ CPU at 1.4GHz is in STOCK for prompt delivery from Xi Computer. The 1400MHz or 1.4GHz Xi® MTower™ is the top AMD available now, fastest than ever! With a 266MHz Front side bus and full support of DDR (Double Data Rate) SDRAM, the new AMD processor represents the TOP in microprocessor performance. Xi Computer offers the 1.4GHz Athlon both for its Workstation class systems as well for its NetRAIDer™ servers line based on the AMD Processors.
Buy it now from Xi!
JUNE 5, 2001
AMD Athlon™
MP Dual Processor DDR is here!
@Xi Computer Corp.
today announced the MTower DP Workstation line and NetRAIDer Server line which employ the new AMD
Athlon™ MP processor and the
AMD-760™ MP multiprocessing chipset. The Xi MTower DP is a dual processor high-end workstations for CAD and Computational intensive tasks. The Xi NetRAIDer is a high-end line of Network Servers supporting both the Microsoft and Linux platforms.
Xi Computer is validating a tradition of over 15 years of workstation excellence; with the support of AMD's new line of AMD Athlon™ MP processors. AMD's revolutionary dual processor Smart MP technology, with 266MHz point to point FSB architecture, is proving to be the winning solution for multithread CAD and number crunching applications. With strong workstation experience in all major CAD applications; Xi Computer is able to assure top level of compatibility and performance using the new AMD Athlon MP in the dual processor configuration." Xi MTower DP & Xi NetRAIDer with dual AMD Athlon MP processors are available for immediate delivery. Buy yours today!
June 4th, 2001
PRICE SAVINGS: More efficiency!
In this time of increasing costs we introduced a better shipping service from Federal Express using ground carrier. The service is capable of a good quality material handling and expedited deliverance even to the east coast. You can now get your Xi system in New Jersey for less that $ 55.00 shipping. And Xi does not charge sales taxes outside California. Due to the high rate of repeated loyal customers, and after a careful analysis of the cost of gaining a new customer versus retaining an old one, we decided to increase the repeated customer discount to 3%. Loyalty pays off!
May
25, 2001
Dual
Processor Intel® Xeon™ “Foster” 1.7GHz now
available!
As an industry first we are introducing the most powerful
workstation class system to date. The Intel® Xeon™
“Foster” processor, featuring the new Intel®
NetBurst™ microarchitecture, boosts the power workstation
to new unsurpassed levels. Our Xi 3400X MTower DP sports
up to 4GB or (4,096MB) RDRAM® dual channel interleave 800MHz
RAMBUS®. With it’s dual 400MHz system bus, the Xi 3400X is
aimed toward highly intensive computational task’s for the
most demanding clients. With revolutionary new features like:
Hyper-Pipelined Technology, Execution Trace Cache, Rapid
Execution Engine, Streaming SIMD Extensions 2 (SSE2), Advanced
Dynamic Execution, Double Precision Floating Point , there is
nothing more powerful than the new Xeon™. In the fine Xi tradition you can select yours in a Mid-Tower, Full-Tower or
Rack mount configuration. Get
yours today from Xi!
May
7th 2001
2GB RAMBUS® NOW AVAILABLE!
Several of our high-end customers are eagerly looking for more than 768MB DDR or 1.5GB SDRAM. While for DDR RAM we still are waiting
the availability of the 512MB modules to break the barrier of 768MB for AMD® and 1GB for Intel®,
the good news is that 2GB RAM is a reality on the Intel front. We have been shipping 2GB PC133 SDRAM on our Intel based MTower DPD for quite a while (1GB PC2100 DDR) but, quite remarkably, 2GB 800MHz RAMBUS® RDRAM is now shipping for P4 and Dual Pentium III. If you need all the RAM you can get, for your demanding computational tasks, you can
buy it right now from Xi!
April
26th, 2001
Nvidia® GeForce 3 is finally here!
We are proud to announce availability of the latest Nvidia based
video board. The Nvidia GeForce 3. Coming with 64MB of DDR,
TV-OUT and DVI interfaces, it will blow away every previous
video gaming board on the market. Both the AMD® 1.333GHz and
Intel® 1.7GHz CPUs are taking advantage of this great new video
board, for the ultimate game PC or fastest CAD workstation.
Check out our lowest prices ever in our product section.
Summertime Price War!
A fundamental change is shaping the PC industry: Intel® is
seriously challenged by AMD® and both companies lower the CPU
chip prices to “Potatoes chip” levels. Who will benefit from
this? Our customers will, of course. RAM of every kind is
following suite with DDR approaching SDRAM prices and RAMBUS®
not that far away but still at a good double dollar per MB.
The time to buy a new PC is now!
April
13th, 2001
Great News On The Intel Front:
Pentium® 4 1.7GHz -- The FASTEST Clock speed ever, is available now on
our FASTEST CAD workstation Xi MTower SP. Intel would like your
business and just reduced prices on the P4 at an incredible
level. Check it out in our product section now!
March
22nd, 2001
FASTEST EVER: 1.333GHz AMD Athlon!
Surprise announcement for the newest and fastest AMD® Athlon™
CPU. The 1,333MHz or 1.333GHz Xi® MTower™ is the top AMD
available today for immediate delivery. With a 266MHz Front side
bus and full support of DDR (Double Data Rate) SDRAM, the new
AMD processor is the uncontested king of the hill in
microprocessor performance. Xi Computer is proud to offer the
1.333GHz Athlon to all his power hungry customers, both for its
workstation class systems as well for its newly introduced
NetRAIDer™ servers line based on the AMD Processor.
Unsurpassed performance and cost effectiveness is the
major strength of Xi and it is perfectly matched with the AMD
Processors line. Contrary to the early delivery issue of the
1.2GHz at 266FSB, the faster counterpart at 1.333GHz is ready
from stock. Bring home today the fastest PC & Workstation on
the planet, form Xi Computer!
March
9th, 2001
In search for the fastest PC!
Things change and things remain the same. Recently C-NET addressed the issue of the "Fastest PC". Who has the fastest PC? Well Xi Computer of course beating hands down all the biggest manufacturer in the world. The Xi DDR MTower SP based on the newest AMD Athlon 1.2GHz with 266FSB (Front Side Bus) with 266MHz DDR RAM, beats all the Intel P4 and other a like. See the chart for yourself.
DDR & 2GB SDRAM for Intel
As of late one of the major problems of Intel architectures is that it has been limited in RAM expandability (512MB) or use expensive RAMBUS. We are now proud to have solved this issue with the offering of an industry first DDR Single Processor and Dual Processor system for the Intel Pentium III, raising the limit of RAM expandability to and 2GB of DDR & SDRAM for the Dual Processor PIII (1GB for the SP). Performance is also much enhanced with DDR (Double Data Rate) SDRAM at a fraction of RAMBUS cost.
Rack Mount anyone?
We finalize a great line of Rack Mount case options for our entire line of workstations and Network Servers. Both in a 3U & 4U form factor and a choice of Black or Gold color and single and redundant power supply. Front lock, filtered and protected access, with an elegant and professional look, distinguishes this new line of Xi Rack Mount line. On the server front the 4U rack mount option offers the capability of passive back plane with 4 Hot swappable drives to over 280GB U-SCSI-160 of space. A space saver 1U unit based on the dual Pentium III and Server works chipsets motherboards is also available at a very aggressive price.
December
10th, 2000
Our Xi® MTower SP equipped with the newest Pentium® 4 from Intel®
Corporation is now available for immediate shipping, at clock speeds of 1.4 &
1.5GHz.
This announcement is of great importance if we consider we are talking of
1500MHz clock. The highest clock speed ever achieved for a microprocessor
based computer CPU. Because the system is targeted for power users and
professional CAD, we decided to take a no compromise approach and offer this
P4 with only the maximum current clock speed available for the RAMBUS® RAM,
i.e. : 800MHz (some competitors offer a slower/cheaper 600MHz option that we
consider not to be a cost effective solution). Our no compromise approach,
is giving this new Xi 440/450 MTower SP superior workstation class
performance for the high-end professional power user!
October 30th, 2000
DDR RAM is HERE!
The hot new Xi MTower SP workstations, equipped with the AMD 761 Chip Set
Mother Boards, are now available for sale on our site. The most important
innovative aspect of this new line is the adoption of DDR PC2100 Double Data
SDRAM @ 266MHz Front Side Bus. Considerable performance increase is
expected from this new architecture with minimal price differential against
PC133 SDRAM and great price advantage against RAMBUS technology. Other
interesting features of the DDR equipped Xi systems, are the availability of
ATA 100 Hard Drive interface and expandability to 2GB of RAM. With a ATA 100
RAID controller option and 1.2GHz AMD Athlon T-Bird at 266MHz
FSB, the Xi
MTower will dominate the high end workstation market scene. Order yours
today!"
October
16th, 2000
1200 MHz AMD now Shipping!
1.0, 1,1 and now…. The 1.2GHz AMD Athlon CPU is available for immediate order on our award winning line of Xi
MTowers! The Fastest ever, the AMD CPU clock speed is taking Intel by surprise. We have also introduced some other very interesting features in the AMD based
MTowers, like, multiple drive availability with an ATA 100 RAID controller. Speed and disk space to spare at new and incredibly low prices.
2000 MHz Intel Dual Processor is here!
On the Intel front, even if they are lagging behind in terms of absolute clock speed, we are able to deliver a dual processor based Pentium III with both CPU's running at 1GHz clock speed (2.0GHz combined clock speed). With the new lower price of RAMBUS at 800MHz and Ultra SCSI-3 160 at 15000 RPM, this newest Xi MTower DP makes it a great contender in the high end 3D workstation market.
FIRE GL-2
The ultimate 3D Video board for CAD NT & 2000 PRO workstation class, is finally shipping. With 64MB Video RAM and an almost double performance increase, from the already super powerful FIRE GL-1. Our line of Xi MTower workstations is taking the lead in 3D graphic's performance.
September
27th, 2000
" Xi's MTower SP targets hard-core gamers with
double-barreled, 3D performance. For you power-crazed players...
this speed demon is " the bomb." The 1.1-GHz MTower
turned a whopping 118 frames per second (fps) in our Quake III
benchmark; to help put this number into context, Quake III runs
fine at 60 fps."
---Review CNET
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August 14th , 2000
1.1GHz AMD Athlon is here!
By August 28th 2000 we will be able to deliver Xi Systems
equipped with the fastest ever processor speed... in the history
of the microprocessor. As of today we are taking orders on the web and the price is set
very low, both for the 1.1GHz
as well for the 1GHz AMD Athlon.
The introduction of the AMD Athlon 1.1GHz with Enhanced Cache,
at such an aggressive price, is a very strong statement of
power, deliverance and value by AMD. Major industry
standard benchmarks set our AMD Athlon based, Xi 1100K MTower SP at the absolute top of CAD, Graphical and Gaming
workstation performance! This is an ongoing tradition for Xi
Computer.
August
1st, 2000
Next generation AMD Athlon™ “Thunderbird” to 1GHz!
Performance is the #1 priority here at Xi, and we deliver it big
time with our new Xi K1000 MTower SP!
We are currently delivering from stock, the new AMD Athlon,
featuring advanced Socket A, “Thunderbird” technology for
CPU speeds above 750MHz up to 1GHz!
These new AMD Athlon CPU’s are using the latest 256KB
“Enhanced Cache Technology”, on the die at full speed,
as opposed to the “old”
512KB external L2 cache CPUs.
The new "T-Bird" achieves an extraordinary performance increase of
up to 30%, over the same
clock speed of the external 512KB L2 cache of the Athlon “Classic”
. We offer these new Socket A CPUs with the
newest class of
VIA based chipset motherboards featuring 133MHz SDRAM expandability to 1.5GB.
Less heat, and noise (one only CPU fan is required), are
among other improved qualities of the new T-Bird based Xi
systems.
RAMBUS on
Intel based Xi MTower DP for the multithread AutoCAD 2000i !
With the arrival of the latest 800MHz RAMBUS technology at a
very reasonable price, we saw the opportunity to offer the Intel
based 840Chipset with RAMBUS in the Dual Processor
configuration. The price/performance ratio is now quite
favorable for these new DP based workstation class
systems.
AutoCAD’s New 2000i can now take advantage of the Xi’s hot
new DP systems, as it is finally supporting dual processor
multithreading. Greater performance is achieved utilizing both
processors even in a single AutoCAD session. The band width of RAMBUS is now at
the equivalent of 1600MHz using dual channel technology on the
motherboard .
Over all the new Xi 1866 MTower DP series (dual 933MHz Pentium
III based) will top the performance chart for serious 3D and GIS
applications.
New
generation AMD Duron™ to 700MHz !
The introduction the cost effective Duron™, also utilizing the
advanced “Socket A” design, adds to the AMD CPU family.
This inexpensive Duron™ CPU is targeted to the business
and high end home segment of the market. The Duron™
is a fantastic performer for the money. Still using an L1 cache
two way associative of 128KB, it has a 64KB L2 multiple way
associative (The Athlon™ has a 256KB of L2), on the chip die
at full speed.
This cache architecture, while saving a lot of
die space and therefore, very cost effective, delivers a very
good performance level for interactive computational use, like
business and light graphics. (The 256KB L2 of the Athlon™
differentiates the performance, in the number crunching use).
Available at 600/650/700MHz increments it roughly matches the
Intel Pentium III's clock speed, for a fraction of the cost.
March
6th, 2000
AMD
ATHLON™ PROCESSOR ROCKETS TO 1 GHz
-AMD reaches industry landmark; announces 1GHz (1,000 MHz)
AMD Athlon™ processor-
-First commercially available systems are being offered now @ Xi
Computer Corp-
AMD today
reached a computer industry milestone, announcing commencement
of shipments of 1GHz AMD Athlon™ processors. The first
commercially available systems based on the 1GHz AMD Athlon
processor are now available
from @Xi Computer Corp.
The pioneering spirit that
invigorates the computer industry is exemplified again today, as
AMD breaks the 1GHz frequency barrier. By announcing the Xi
MTowerSP Athlon
with support for
the 1GHz AMD Athlon processor, we continue to enhance Xi's image
as an undisputed technology leader in the consumer PC
environment. With AMD focusing attention on the high-end
commercial workstation market, Xi Computer is looking forward to
a stellar year 2000. Xi Computer's customer base
includes engineering, architectural, and government end
users. And the company has enjoyed success in these market
segments, due in part to the powerful performance of the AMD
Athlon TM processor. “Xi Computer has been at the top of AutoCad workstation
performance since 1992, and the superior architecture of the AMD
Athlon processor is a must to keep our performance edge in
today’s workstation market,"
February
28th, 2000
Five
Stars Highly Recommended, from CADalyst magazine
Xi just got another CAD recognition award, using the new Single
Processor 820 Intel “Camino” chipset motherboard sporting
133MHz internal BUS. The Xi 733 MTower SP got the best
price/performance score in all 3D combined CADalyst tests
including, AutoCAD, 3D Studio Max & ViewPerf (Open GL).
While still using PC133 SDRAM vs. more expensive & less
expandable RAMBUS, the Xi 733 scored close to the absolute top
costing thousand of $$$ less. We also just introduced the newest
dual Processor Capable Xi MTower DP133. Pure Workstation Class
Power: up to 4GB dual channel interleave PC133 SDRAM, new AGP
PRO 64 bit, 64Bit PCI 66MHz, super fast on board Ultra SCSI-3
160MB/sec. interface, with estimated performance gain from the
SP133 version of up to 50%. We cite the Register.co.uk as:
"In news from another internal Intel document, we learn
that SDRAM is a good thing. A white paper Intel issued on the
840 says that the 82804 SDRAM based MRH can give bandwidth equal
to RAMBUS." In staying away from RAMBUS we already knew
this.
More
Recognition for the Athlon...
January
/ February Awards
 CNET February Editors Choice 850MHz Xi MTower
Athlon
Xi's
850-MHz Dream Machines - It's
hard to find fault with Xi Computer's 850-MHz MTower, it promises blazing
performance, and it delivers. Though its business-application speed was
incredible, this system's game performance blew us away. The Hercules 3D
Prophet graphics card, featuring Nvidia's GeForce 256 chip and 32MB of
high-end DDR memory, helped the Xi deliver an absolutely amazing 70.5
frames per second (fps) in Quake III at 1,024 by 768 pixels with 32-bit
color. That's almost 10 fps faster than Xi's Editors' Choice-winning
800-MHz MTower.
CNET
February Editor Choice 800MHz Xi
MTower
Athlon
If you want the
best-performing home PC you can get, this is it. Its high-quality,
name-brand internals make it a gamer's dream machine. Beyond the fast CPU
clock speed, this PC separates itself from the pack of high-end systems
with 32MB of DDR RAM on its Nvidia GeForce-based graphics card, giving it
the fastest benchmark scores we've seen. All components that are
consistently cited as "the best" can be found in Xi's MTower.
There are no trade-offs with this system: its CPU, DVD drive, and sound
and graphics cards make this a techno dream machine. Of course, with all
these high-end components those who will get the most out of this machine
are gamers.
©1995-2000 CNET, Inc.
CNET Review All rights reserved.
Cadence
January 2000
The Xi 700MHz Workstation performed significantly better than any
other system besting the fastest score on the SolidWorks 98 Plus benchmark The Dell Precision
410 with an Intense3D Wildcat graphics card came in at 2.54, while the Xi system turned in a score of 2.73 with a
3DLabs Oxygen GVX1, and costs several thousand less. It also achieved a score of 171 seconds on our
CADMARK 2D AutoCAD test, besting the top score of 228 seconds in last month's Pentium III workstation
review.
January 17th, 2000
AMD Arrives in the Workstation Market, at the TOP!
SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 17,
2000--
Microprocessor Report Names AMD Athlon Processor `Best PC Processor'; AMD Athlon processor and
systems based on it have earned 35 awards worldwide.
The AMD Athlon(TM) processor began the Year 2000 winning a prestigious award from one of the microprocessor industry's leading technical publications. MicroDesign Resources,
publisher of the Microprocessor Report, announced today that the AMD Athlon processor beat out the Intel Pentium
III(R) Coppermine and the Motorola PowerPC G4 to win the publication's first ever Analyst's Choice Award for Best PC Processor.
With 35 awards in hand since the product was launched in August 1999, the AMD Athlon processor is also the first AMD
microprocessor to win multiple awards as a top-performing workstation processor.
"The AMD Athlon processor continues to gain acceptance from computer manufacturers, businesses and end-users, as well as
the trade press and analysts who cover the industry," said Larry
Hollatz, group vice president of the Computation Products
Group at AMD. "We are grateful to MicroDesign Resources for recognizing the AMD Athlon processors superior engineering
design and performance. These awards come from a variety of publications around the globe, testifying to the AMD Athlon
processor's worldwide appeal."
The Analyst's Choice Awards recognize excellence in microprocessor technology innovation, design and implementation, and
are chosen by Microprocessor Report's team of respected, independent analysts. The Microprocessor Report is published by
MicroDesign Resources, based in Sunnyvale, California.
In addition to the MicroDesign Resources award, the AMD Athlon processor also received a PC Magazine 1999 Technical
Excellence Award in November at Comdex for Best Component in the hardware category, as well as nearly 35 other awards.
San Francisco, CA----Jan. 3rd, 2000--The AMD
Athlon(TM)
processor earned...
Key CADENCE Magazine recognition as the most powerful CPU in
the AutoCAD and
SOLID Works workstation market.
An Xi 700K MTower SP equipped with a 700MHz AMD Athlon CPU
bested the fastest score of SolidWorks 98Plus Bench
&
AutoCAD test.
“Xi Computer has been at the top of the AutoCAD workstation
performance since 1992, the superior architecture of the AMD
Athlon CPU is a must to keep our performance edge in today’s
workstation market.”- @Xi Computer Corp.
“The Dell (DELL) Precision 410 with an Intense 3D
Wildcat graphics card came in at 2.54, while the Xi system
turned a score of 2.73 with a 3D Labs (TDDD) OXYGEN GVX1,
and costs several thousands less” -- said Peter Sheerin,
Technical Editor of CADENCE. “It (the Xi) achieved a score of
171 seconds on our CADMARK 2D AutoCAD test, besting the top
score of 228 seconds in last month’s Pentium III workstation
review, showing that very little compromise must be made when
selecting and AMD (AMD) processor over a genuine Intel (INTC)
Chip”.
For The In-Depth Review
from Cadence…
Xi's Athlon 750 MTower turned in phenomenally fast application scores-- in CNET Labs'
tests.
Someday--and at the rate things are going, it may not be long--most
home computers will ship with all the features
currently loaded into
the newest Xi MTower. From the super fast 750-MHz Athlon CPU to the
DVD-ROM drive to the
Logitech MouseMan, this PC comes
equipped with all the right stuff.
©1995-2000 CNET, Inc.
CNET Review
All rights reserved.
 November
25th, 1999
Now
taking orders for the New 750MHzD Athlon CPU
November
1st, 1999
Xi
Computer Corp., steals away the first place cup from the
competition yet again. Not only was Xi Computer by far the best
in the price performance ratio, it "produced top scores for
our review in every category". Click here to read the full review.
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October
26th, 1999
700MHz
AMD Athlon is here; Xi 650K MTower is the fastest AutoCAD
workstation (one more time)! We
are shipping the newest 700MHz AMD Athlon, and the November
issue of CADalyst just gave the award for the FASTEST AutoCAD Workstation to our Xi 650K MTower SP, with 5 star
rating. In this review we used the AMD Athlon 650MHz and an
equally configured Intel 600MHz Pentium III processor for direct
comparison. The Xi 650K (AMD CPU) was, up to, almost 50%
faster… than the fastest Intel based (IBM & Xi too!), and
more than 15% faster than its closest Athlon-equipped
competitor. Xi has been rated the best price & best
performance of the all systems CADalyst reviewed and it features
a great new Tool Free Xi MTower Case. What’s
new? Xi is the uncontested leader of the CAD System market!
And those of you who ask the most important question: “How
much faster is the AMD compared to the Intel?” we can answer
that (based on the CAD benchmark) at same clock speed the AMD is
overall around 10% faster. Now the lead is in favor of AMD
considering clock speed, price & deliverance, taking into
account that Intel just announced the 733MHz with 133MHz BUS,
while AMD is now delivering the 700MHz and talking about 750Mhz
soon. Stay tuned for more details on the review, new Intel
products and the exciting new “war of the CPU clock”. Of
course you can always get the latest and fastest technology from
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August
28th, 1999
For
many years Xi has been a sole supporter of the Intel
Architecture. After careful research, Xi’s R&D Lab
is pleased to endorse the AMD Athlon platform. There are
some very unique features that make the AMD Athlon the fastest
available processor to date. So… by "popular demand"
and educated choice, Xi is glad to offer the AMD Athlon to you,
with our tradition of top performance and reliability. Our New
Xi Athlon MTower SP comes in four different clock speed: 500,
550, 600, & 650MHz with a 200MHz Front-end
Processor BUS (CPU to Chipset), 128K L1 two way associative
Cache and 512K L2 Cache. It supports the newest Ultra ATA-66
Adaptec EIDE interface and has the New enhanced 3D NOW
instruction-set specifically designed for graphics & 3D
applications. Our Xi Athlon MTower SP is built with our new line
of Tool Free Cases (no screwdriver needed to open) which
supports 7 bays and comes with a 250W Power Supply. In keeping
with Xi Computer’s tradition for unsurpassed speed, we are
offering it with the fastest PC 100 MHz SDRAM.
How fast it is? Well, the 600 & 650 are both faster than the
Intel 600MHz systems with comparable configurations at a very
attractive price.
Configure and order your Xi Athlon MTower SP now! |
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August
15th, 1999
600 MHz Pentium III processors are now available in
both single and dual processor configurations! For the ultimate
in speed put 1200 MHz worth of Pentium III power under the hood
of your Xi MTower DP
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August
15th, 1999
MTower:
The Xi MTower 600 received the highest marks in the overall
score for a PC Workstation in National Standards Testing
Laboratory's testing of the Xi MTower for Business Week Online.
(read review)
It received a 24.9 overall score, the highest in the review, with
the average being 15.2. The overall score takes into account many
factors, including usability, features, and performance. It also
received the highest performance score of 4.3, nearly double the
average of 2.2.
NetRAIDer:
The Xi NetRAIDer is "first place in overall performance"
in the PC World review of more than half a dozen Pentium III Xeon
servers. (read review).
"Xi placed first in the SQL test", "but it really
distinguished itself in the File Service test, beating out its
nearest competitor by more than 20 percent." The choice is
clear, for the ultimate server, in performance, reliability,
"good security", and "plenty of room to
upgrade". The Xi NetRAIDer is the only way to go. |
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August
1st, 1999
Xi
Computer's MTower workstation turned in the fastest 3D Studio  Max
scores, edging out the nearest competition by 16% in tests
conducted by Cadalyst magazine. (read review).
The choice is clear: for ultimate 3D performance the Xi MTower
stands out as the clear winner, both in performance and price. |
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June 1st, 1999
Continuing Xi Computer's early adopted Linux support, we
have announced the addition of two optional factory installed
software packages. The first, KDE (K
Desktop Environment), is a  superbly
versatile graphical user environment for Linux. Take a look at
some screen shots and learn about some of its features by clicking
the link above. The second, Redhat
Secure Webserver, based on Apache. It is an excellent solution
for e-commerce and other mission critical web servers.
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May
15th, 1999
Three new graphics card are poised to push the Xi
Computer CAD workstations to the next level. The new Diamond
Fire GL1 card,  with
a 256 bit (an industry first), multi-threaded, IBM graphics
subsystem. 3DLabs' Oxygen GVX1 and VX1,
featuring the 3DLabs Glint R3 graphics processor. Both include
build in support for the Pentium III processor instruction set,
increasing speed ever further on Pentium III systems. The Matrox
Millenium G400 has excellent 2D/3D performance for a
low price tag. |
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April
15th, 1999
The Intel Pentium III 600 MHz
& Intel Pentium III Xeon 550 MHz is now ready to be
shipped with servers and
workstations. For your top of the line performance needs, look
no further than the Pentium III Xeon line of processors. With
the Katmai enhanced multimedia extensions of the Pentium III and
the larger, full CPU speed cache of the Xeon, this processor is
the ultimate for servers and workstations alike.
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March
1st, 1999
If you'd rather have the Linux operating system instead
of a  Microsoft®
Windows® operating system, Xi Computer Corp has made
it easier than ever. We are the first to
offer Red Hat Linux in lieu of Windows upon request with
new machines. Linux's popularity is sky rocketing, and Xi has
taken the initiative to provide this powerful, open source,
freeware operating system with new machines. So go ahead, dare
to be different.
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February
15th, 1999
Pentium III 600 MHz NOW Available.
Intel is in the process of releasing its Pentium III processor,
featuring the new Katmai enhanced MMX instruction set.  This
includes enhanced 3D capability, and a bigger L1 cache (64K). Xi
does have limited production quantity for those of you that need
the fastest CAD speed NOW! The Fastest is getting Faster! The
Pentium III Processor is available with the Xi MTower dual
processor capable system and the Xi MTower single processor only
systems. |
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