Diskeeper software bundled with select Intel desktop boards to system builders.

Diskeeper announced that Intel will ship a full version of Diskeeper's flagship automatic defragmenter on their next-generation motherboard CDs to an estimated 4-6 million system builders worldwide.

Bobby Johnson, Diskeeper Vice President of Strategic Alliances, notes that the Windows built-in defragmenter is "a manual solution and was never designed to handle the degree of traffic which goes through a modem day working man's computer. I applaud Intel for recognizing fragmentation as a problem and offering their system builders a real solution with Diskeeper."

In the white paper entitled, The Impact of Disk Fragmentation, storage expert Joe Kinsella found that heavy fragmentation can cause applications such as Microsoft Word to slow down by 15x, Internet Explorer by 2x, anti-virus scanner by 3x and Outlook by 3x. With such performance hits taking their toll on computers, the benefit from adding Diskeeper to Intel's motherboard CDs is a significant offering to their system builder base.