Well, I have never seen an multi-socket LGA775 motherboard so I'm not surprised. I would be willing to bet money that the difference between LGA771 and LGA775 is that the latter lacks the required memory coherency lines on the bus connection that would be required to support shared memory.
But the real problem with Skulltrail (and something Engadget neglected to mention) is that it doesn't in fact use DDR2 memory. Rather, it uses FB-DDR2 which costs ridiculously more for less performance. (FB-DDR2 is a server memory standard -- it sacrifices speed for data integrity)
Delayed building my new PC for a long time now because that a-holes @ nvidia decided not to allow Intel x38 chipset to support SLI so unless if you wanna be stuck with a crossfire setup you gotta wait until the next generation of mobos come out.
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... Are those DIP switches?
gaming platform with support for Xeon processors? huh???
Well, I have never seen an multi-socket LGA775 motherboard so I'm not surprised. I would be willing to bet money that the difference between LGA771 and LGA775 is that the latter lacks the required memory coherency lines on the bus connection that would be required to support shared memory.
But the real problem with Skulltrail (and something Engadget neglected to mention) is that it doesn't in fact use DDR2 memory. Rather, it uses FB-DDR2 which costs ridiculously more for less performance. (FB-DDR2 is a server memory standard -- it sacrifices speed for data integrity)
looks like 8 of them yeah. havent seen those in a while
The 781 socket is now being used on the latest Core 2 Extreme processors, not just Xeons... :)
@JLTate
That's horrible news if it's true.
Delayed building my new PC for a long time now because that a-holes @ nvidia decided not to allow Intel x38 chipset to support SLI so unless if you wanna be stuck with a crossfire setup you gotta wait until the next generation of mobos come out.
Wasn't that the whole reason the Socket 940 design got scrapped, error correcting memory requirement?
Maybe we'll see a skulltrail -1 in a few months.
nice image