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Sounds evil and perfect for a gaming rig.]]>Feb 19th 2008 1:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/intel-get-official-with-skulltrail-gives-it-an-incredibly-dull/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/intel-get-official-with-skulltrail-gives-it-an-incredibly-dull/Feb 19th 2008 1:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/intel-get-official-with-skulltrail-gives-it-an-incredibly-dull/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/intel-get-official-with-skulltrail-gives-it-an-incredibly-dull/Feb 19th 2008 2:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/intel-get-official-with-skulltrail-gives-it-an-incredibly-dull/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/intel-get-official-with-skulltrail-gives-it-an-incredibly-dull/
Now, how about they make one FOR GAMING this time. We don't need the stinky slow-downs of data integrity checks.]]>Feb 19th 2008 7:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/intel-get-official-with-skulltrail-gives-it-an-incredibly-dull/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/intel-get-official-with-skulltrail-gives-it-an-incredibly-dull/Feb 19th 2008 1:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/intel-get-official-with-skulltrail-gives-it-an-incredibly-dull/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/intel-get-official-with-skulltrail-gives-it-an-incredibly-dull/Feb 19th 2008 1:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/intel-get-official-with-skulltrail-gives-it-an-incredibly-dull/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/intel-get-official-with-skulltrail-gives-it-an-incredibly-dull/Feb 19th 2008 1:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/intel-get-official-with-skulltrail-gives-it-an-incredibly-dull/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/intel-get-official-with-skulltrail-gives-it-an-incredibly-dull/Feb 19th 2008 1:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/intel-get-official-with-skulltrail-gives-it-an-incredibly-dull/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/intel-get-official-with-skulltrail-gives-it-an-incredibly-dull/Feb 19th 2008 6:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/intel-get-official-with-skulltrail-gives-it-an-incredibly-dull/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/intel-get-official-with-skulltrail-gives-it-an-incredibly-dull/Feb 19th 2008 10:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/intel-get-official-with-skulltrail-gives-it-an-incredibly-dull/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/intel-get-official-with-skulltrail-gives-it-an-incredibly-dull/Feb 19th 2008 1:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/intel-get-official-with-skulltrail-gives-it-an-incredibly-dull/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/intel-get-official-with-skulltrail-gives-it-an-incredibly-dull/I'll buy one and then pound back some fucking Mountain Dew!]]>Feb 19th 2008 2:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/intel-get-official-with-skulltrail-gives-it-an-incredibly-dull/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/intel-get-official-with-skulltrail-gives-it-an-incredibly-dull/Feb 19th 2008 1:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/intel-get-official-with-skulltrail-gives-it-an-incredibly-dull/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/intel-get-official-with-skulltrail-gives-it-an-incredibly-dull/Feb 19th 2008 1:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/intel-get-official-with-skulltrail-gives-it-an-incredibly-dull/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/intel-get-official-with-skulltrail-gives-it-an-incredibly-dull/Feb 19th 2008 1:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/intel-get-official-with-skulltrail-gives-it-an-incredibly-dull/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/intel-get-official-with-skulltrail-gives-it-an-incredibly-dull/Feb 19th 2008 3:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/intel-get-official-with-skulltrail-gives-it-an-incredibly-dull/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/intel-get-official-with-skulltrail-gives-it-an-incredibly-dull/DDR2 or DDR3?]]>Feb 19th 2008 1:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/intel-get-official-with-skulltrail-gives-it-an-incredibly-dull/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/intel-get-official-with-skulltrail-gives-it-an-incredibly-dull/Slow and expensive, not worth the hassle.]]>Feb 19th 2008 2:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/intel-get-official-with-skulltrail-gives-it-an-incredibly-dull/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/intel-get-official-with-skulltrail-gives-it-an-incredibly-dull/Feb 19th 2008 2:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/intel-get-official-with-skulltrail-gives-it-an-incredibly-dull/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/intel-get-official-with-skulltrail-gives-it-an-incredibly-dull/
WTF is Skulltrail, please someone tell me!]]>Feb 19th 2008 2:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/intel-get-official-with-skulltrail-gives-it-an-incredibly-dull/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/intel-get-official-with-skulltrail-gives-it-an-incredibly-dull/Feb 19th 2008 2:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/intel-get-official-with-skulltrail-gives-it-an-incredibly-dull/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/intel-get-official-with-skulltrail-gives-it-an-incredibly-dull/Feb 19th 2008 2:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/intel-get-official-with-skulltrail-gives-it-an-incredibly-dull/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/intel-get-official-with-skulltrail-gives-it-an-incredibly-dull/
This product will flop and will just be a way for the 1%ers to show each other who has a bigger rod.

PS: The Picture makes the mobo look Square, so keep in mind this may also mean you need an EATX/SSI EEB Compatible Case. I can only imaging lugging that huge machine with 2 big ole tower coolers stuffed with drives and video cards to the local LAN Party. Might be better off finding a 1U Server with an x16 slot. :)]]>Feb 19th 2008 2:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/intel-get-official-with-skulltrail-gives-it-an-incredibly-dull/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/intel-get-official-with-skulltrail-gives-it-an-incredibly-dull/Feb 19th 2008 2:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/intel-get-official-with-skulltrail-gives-it-an-incredibly-dull/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/intel-get-official-with-skulltrail-gives-it-an-incredibly-dull/Feb 19th 2008 2:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/intel-get-official-with-skulltrail-gives-it-an-incredibly-dull/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/intel-get-official-with-skulltrail-gives-it-an-incredibly-dull/
This never happened, I'm just making it up because I have work to do and I love procrstinating*


*Actually, procrastinating eats me up inside, but I can't help it.
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The use of buffered memory, a jerry-rigged SLI chip, and the inability of games to make use of 4 cores, much less 8 on an SMP rig, make this a total waste of money for gamers.]]>Feb 19th 2008 4:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/intel-get-official-with-skulltrail-gives-it-an-incredibly-dull/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/intel-get-official-with-skulltrail-gives-it-an-incredibly-dull/feh to you good sir.]]>Feb 19th 2008 5:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/intel-get-official-with-skulltrail-gives-it-an-incredibly-dull/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/intel-get-official-with-skulltrail-gives-it-an-incredibly-dull/
http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/article.html?art=MTQ1OCwxLCxoZW50aHVzaWFzdA==

Their conclusion?


"For the gamer I do not recommend the Skulltrail as it is going to be too expensive and it simply won't provide a better gaming experience than a more conventional gaming PC will. If you want super high end luxury gaming, go for 3-Way SLI or 4 GPUs worth of ATI CrossFireX. High end gaming is still GPU limited and Skulltrail does nothing to remedy that beyond the solutions we already have available."

http://www.tomshardware.com/2008/02/08/intel_skulltrail_part_3/page25.html

Some snippets from their conclusion:

"The Skulltrail system is unable to keep up with current desktop systems with a single quad-core processor by a long shot. We are not considering workstation applications here, since such applications are simply not the focus of the platform at this time. The main performance problems can be attributed to how Intel chose to use a chipset from the workstation segment, from the use of FB-DIMM memory and from the lack of widely multi-threaded software. Most applications can take advantage of four processors at most, meaning that the second quad-core CPU is practically never in use.

"The performance weaknesses of the Skulltrail motherboard's workstation chipset are its downfall. With games, the system falls behind the two single-CPU desktop systems by up to 45%.

"In the end, a single QX9650 is only 3.9% slower overall than the two QX9775 Skulltrail chips together."
Yeah, the thing can crunch numbers like a champ, but today's games are A.) GPU limited and B.) unable to make use of 4 cores, much less 8.


Again, it is supposed to be a system aimed at gamers, but it doesnt appear to help gamers in the slightest. Trust me, I wish it did, as I'd be in line behind the fan-boys to get one. I want to play Crysis on full detail at high resolutions too! But it's not yet to be. GPU technology is what is holding us back right now, so Intel cant really help us out with Skulltrail, no matter how great it might become with newer BIOS's.
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http://www.talkprice.net/]]>Feb 22nd 2008 9:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/intel-get-official-with-skulltrail-gives-it-an-incredibly-dull/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/intel-get-official-with-skulltrail-gives-it-an-incredibly-dull/must be
"3DMark06 scores of 20,160 and Cinebench 10 scores of 6481"

Somebody mixt the numbers...
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