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Intel Update: Conroe!
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I'm thinking launch will be around the 5-7th August.. Apple intend to piggyback the launch with some of their new machines that are launching 7th August so it looks a safe bet 
Soldato
We are also in the same position as OCUK but we have a reletivley small backorder of Conroe stuff (I think at the same supplier as OCUK too) our CPU's are waiting to go in high end CAD workstations and we have our customers waiting and waiting. A few have gone over to AMD instead of waiting. We too were also told the 24th of July was the release date and we could put back orders on with our suppliers, this was directly from our reseller contact at Intel. When i spoke to our account manager they told us that it was a standard response from Intel and that they had not even been notified that they had confirmation of stock allocation. In essence Intel are full of crap! Although OCUK are a retail company our position is different in the way that you can bet your bottom dollar that teir 1 vendors will have them first. Leaving me constantly answering the question "Why do you not have them when i can buy a machine from dell with one in?"...
Where is the Huuuuuge
smiley for intel when you need it?
Where is the Huuuuuge
smiley for intel when you need it?
adwhitworth said:We can confirm that Intel Guy does actually work for Intel.
How do you know that? Did you ask him to join the forum? If he signed up of his own free will could you just tell from his email address or something?
It seems to me that if Gibbo did want to pose as Intel guy, he'd be able to get anyone from the OcUK upper echelons to make posts in support of this new identity.
It just seems a bit strange that Intel Guy would sign up today and join the forums to give some input from his side of things, then skirt around telling us why Intel are delaying:
I would have thought that the ONLY reason for him to post in the forums was PRECISELY in order to give us this extra info. Gibbo has already told us the rest.
And need I remind you he does spell 'receive' like Gibbo too, which doesn't help!
Hi there
Come on guys this chap from Intel has come here to try and help. Yes he does work for Intel and has great insight plus he will be making sure OcUK gets stock of product ASAP.
Don't give him a hard time he's only trying to help, were all very annoyed at Intel for ruining this launch.
Today gets even more interesting though as NVIDIA are doing an official Conroe/SLi launch on 27th August, which is Thursday, does this mean NVIDIA have been caught out too as they will be launching their revised P5N32 SLi Deluxe to support Conroe but as of yet still no Conroe processors accept for X6800 to place in the motherboard.
I get the feeling Intel have given numerous different launch dates to different parties and upto now none of them have been met which is just causing more fustration.....
Come on guys this chap from Intel has come here to try and help. Yes he does work for Intel and has great insight plus he will be making sure OcUK gets stock of product ASAP.
Don't give him a hard time he's only trying to help, were all very annoyed at Intel for ruining this launch.
Today gets even more interesting though as NVIDIA are doing an official Conroe/SLi launch on 27th August, which is Thursday, does this mean NVIDIA have been caught out too as they will be launching their revised P5N32 SLi Deluxe to support Conroe but as of yet still no Conroe processors accept for X6800 to place in the motherboard.
I get the feeling Intel have given numerous different launch dates to different parties and upto now none of them have been met which is just causing more fustration.....
shodan said:How do you know that? Did you ask him to join the forum? If he signed up of his own free will could you just tell from his email address or something?
It seems to me that if Gibbo did want to pose as Intel guy, he'd be able to get anyone from the OcUK upper echelons to make posts in support of this new identity.
It just seems a bit strange that Intel Guy would sign up today and join the forums to give some input from his side of things, then skirt around telling us why Intel are delaying:
I would have thought that the ONLY reason for him to post in the forums was PRECISELY in order to give us this extra info. Gibbo has already told us the rest.
And need I remind you he does spell 'receive' like Gibbo too, which doesn't help!
They guy has been reading our forums, he asked if it was OK for him to register and post so I allowed him to do so.
Fact is Intel Guy works for Intel, its not up for debate so stop acting like children and please grow up.
Gibbo - Agreed on your comments. This has gone on for way too long now. The bitchn just isn't helping anyones morale's. Intel_Guy - Like any member of the forum's, you're welcome here. But obviously, you knew what you were getting into when you first posted in this thread. Don't take any of the flak as personal, there are many of us IT professionals who work with suppliers daily, and sure it can get very frustrating when things dont work out. More so, when it's your own toys at home.
So, share what you can, and update us the same. Intel, like many manufacturers have to promote their products, they have to create hype, hype = Sales, and so on. Intel is guilty of getting a few things wrong here, but is not really different from any other manufacturer. Car manu's, plamsa, Blue Ray, PS3 !! HD-DVD etc etc. Everyones guilty of over hyping and then not coping with the demand. Edit : Add Microsoft Vista to the list
I will be looking forward to getting my conroe the same as everyone else, but guys (and gals) let stop punishing the OCUK team, and Mr Intel Guy who is at least trying to shed some light. I think Gibbo might be taking a holiday after stock availability - he deserves it, as does his team!
Lets all chill and look forward to what's coming.
-casw1000
So, share what you can, and update us the same. Intel, like many manufacturers have to promote their products, they have to create hype, hype = Sales, and so on. Intel is guilty of getting a few things wrong here, but is not really different from any other manufacturer. Car manu's, plamsa, Blue Ray, PS3 !! HD-DVD etc etc. Everyones guilty of over hyping and then not coping with the demand. Edit : Add Microsoft Vista to the list
I will be looking forward to getting my conroe the same as everyone else, but guys (and gals) let stop punishing the OCUK team, and Mr Intel Guy who is at least trying to shed some light. I think Gibbo might be taking a holiday after stock availability - he deserves it, as does his team!
Lets all chill and look forward to what's coming.
-casw1000
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Gibbo said:
Hey, I'm just trying to inject some lightheartedness into what has been at times quite a vitriolic thread. If you look back at my posts you'll see that I am neither annoyed with Overclockers, nor annoyed with Intel. As far as I am concerned this is just one of those things everybody has to take in their stride.
I understand that Gibbo and and Intel Guy may be feeling a little defensive given the number of irritated customers here, but that's no reason to snap at people making harmless jokes. So don't tell me to grow up, that would be far more of a reason for me to become disgruntled than some silly delay on a CPU launch.
Soldato
Look, the facts are as follows...
INTEL DO NOT GIVE A TOSS about the "Smaller" resellers/system builders... Even if OCUK buy 5000 cpus they will not compare to the 100,000 that dell, hp, acer, fujitsu-siemens, etc etc etc... will be buying. If they did they would have released it a month later and had huge stockpiles of cpu's ready for launch...
INTEL DO NOT GIVE A TOSS about the "Smaller" resellers/system builders... Even if OCUK buy 5000 cpus they will not compare to the 100,000 that dell, hp, acer, fujitsu-siemens, etc etc etc... will be buying. If they did they would have released it a month later and had huge stockpiles of cpu's ready for launch...
Soldato
Sorry not give a toss was a bit harsh but i would say substantially lower priority than Teir 1 manufactures that Intel would consider thier bread and butter business.
stoofa said:
imo you ruined a pretty on the money post with the above
Every new generation of chip has this amount of interest - whether it was PIV, A64, dual core you name it from both sides its happened . Maybe due to the passage of time the interest seems more intense - and conroe certainly seems to deserve it - but also you have to remember the bottom line is all this interest is generated by about 0.5% of the market -in units - at best ( they may spend 5-10% of the value however always buying when something is most expensive)
Also I personally think that Intel should be capable of producing cpu's on time given their resources, they are after all several times larger than AMD with numerous plants capable of producing said chip (if they didnt want in affect a paper launch")
Just my thoughts though
I have great reespect for Gibbo and OCUK in general and would hate to see him stop advising loyal customers because of a few who rant inaccurately at him or OCUK
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It's been reported on many sites time and time again that availability of mid range conroes will be very tight probably til the end of the year.
casw1000 said:So, share what you can, and update us the same. Intel, like many manufacturers have to promote their products, they have to create hype, hype = Sales, and so on. Intel is guilty of getting a few things wrong here, but is not really different from any other manufacturer. Car manu's, plamsa, Blue Ray, PS3 !! HD-DVD etc etc. Everyones guilty of over hyping and then not coping with the demand. Edit : Add Microsoft Vista to the list
I will be looking forward to getting my conroe the same as everyone else, but guys (and gals) let stop punishing the OCUK team, and Mr Intel Guy who is at least trying to shed some light. I think Gibbo might be taking a holiday after stock availability - he deserves it, as does his team!
Lets all chill and look forward to what's coming.
-casw1000
Ok, so a lot of the problem is around the launch dates, its confusing for us at times so it must be a mindfield elsewhere. From what i understand, our official launch is July 27th, thats when we hold all our press events and launch our new Core 2 Duo brand to the world.
The plan would then be that there is C2D systems available for the customer to buy, so we have to ship product much earlier out to the far east to enable all the likes of Dell, Hp etc to build and then ship to the relevant regions, in time for the launch, that was probably a week ago, we then ship product this week, to smaller integrators to enable them to also have product available. By their nature they can build and launch product quicker, so they do not need the product as early.
"If" some product leaks out onto the market, we have no control of that, so their is little we can do.
At launch i doubt there will be enough product for everyone, (If a product is good there never is!!!) PSP IPOD etc.
My understanding but not gauruntee is that we have product being shipped this week mainly on the lower speeds and as each week goes by greater and greater volume will be shipping. When you will recieve your cpu, will be dependant on which CPU, you ordered and how many back orders you have all placed with OCUK, sorry i cant be clearer, but theres not point me making it up. I will work with Gibbo to try and come back to you with more detail as soon as poss
From a broad view, my feel is that those with preorders will almost certainly recieve their CPU's by August, everyone else should be prepared to have to wait till early Sept (Only 5 weeks and boards are playing catch up with Cpu's)
I have to quickly point out that this is my view, and not an Intel statement and these are maybe slightly worst case scenarios, but i think thats the best way to be!