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    Intel unleashes Skulltrail motherboard - it's a monster!

    You've come to know it as "Skulltrail" and you've probably come to want it too. Well, now you can in the form of Intel's D5400XS - a dual-socket gaming motherboard for the performance fiends.
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    Re: Intel unleashes Skulltrail motherboard - it's a monster!

    want

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    Re: Intel unleashes Skulltrail motherboard - it's a monster!

    What a total wast of money, just to get more points in a benchmark, as the difference in games between 2-way SLI and 3- or 4-way SLI is marginal.

    I'm not in a hurry to exchange my 780i, QX9650, 8Gb OCZ and 2 8800 GTS 512s.

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    Re: Intel unleashes Skulltrail motherboard - it's a monster!

    Does this have a classic FSB running at 1600MHz?

    If it does, I expect it'll still be buggered with those eight cores sat on it.
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    Re: Intel unleashes Skulltrail motherboard - it's a monster!

    I'd be tempted to have the lower clock speed CPUs tried out on this board to see how well they OC

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    Re: Intel unleashes Skulltrail motherboard - it's a monster!

    Just let us know how well it folds when you get one in for review

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    Re: Intel unleashes Skulltrail motherboard - it's a monster!

    All very good but how many games currently make use of more than one core?

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