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About LinkBacksThe Register have just released a review of Intel's new Skulltrail setup....
8 cores, bags of memory and SLI and Crossfire on one board!
Intel Skulltrail high-end gaming system | Reg Hardware
The Register have just released a review of Intel's new Skulltrail setup....
8 cores, bags of memory and SLI and Crossfire on one board!
Intel Skulltrail high-end gaming system | Reg Hardware
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Soooo...it'll run Alan Wake on medium settings then...?
sli and crossfire on the same board
absolute effing madness
Don't be bloody silly. Of course notOriginally Posted by nichomach
Soooo...it'll run Alan Wake on medium settings then...?
Can anyone lend me £3000 ish please...?
Last edited by Salazaar; 05-02-2008 at 02:12 PM.
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You need a flexible friend....
I don't have any friends that flexible...
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In that case you could try being flexible for them...?
Are you suggesting I whore myself out just so I can afford the most advanced gaming rig available...?In that case you could try being flexible for them...?
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You make it sound so...tawdry...I'm sure you get a very refined clientele...
Firingsquad liked it, but Anandtech did not (just to give the gist of it). Seems to scale amazingly well under Excel, but it's no 'gaming rig' (in the sense that games simply don't benefit from 8 cores at this point).
but it'll FOLD quite well
I might go find one of these......
I haven't read the article (don't have time right now) so bare with me. Are these boards only for system builders?
If now, how much are the likely to cost? What about CPUs? Are they full blown Xeons? i.e. mega money.
Not interested in 3D graphics performance, so if i was to build a system, it wouldn't need that.
Not that i'm actually going to build one, but the temptation is there
LAZzZzZy lol
They are full blown xeons. skt 771 I think.
Cost STOOOOOPID money, certainly not worth considering for anything other than an insane workstation not a gaming machine imo. The review suggests £2000 for the mobo, cpu's and RAM.
Graphics wise. It has SLi (Tri SLi? not sure)
Certianly seems to allow crossfire X (4x ATi Cards)
I doubt anyone concerned enough about their PC purchase will come here with the kind of budget that you would need for us to recommend one.. not that I would anyway.
ah well, forget that then
If it was like the original AMD dual proc mobos making SMP machines affordable i would have thought about it, but not using Xeons. pft!
CPU are full blow Xeons (771 pins), so yes mega money there. On top of it, you would need FB variant of your DDR2 memory. Pricing of the motherboard is not known yet (at AT/FS anyway), though AT estimate it at $500 (so, £350 min?).
Intels Intepretation of the exchange rate.. swap $ for £ ... all done!
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