Monday, January 14th 2008
Intel Skulltrail Out in February 2008
I'll be brief on this one. Intel Skulltrail is designed to compete against the AMD Quad FX platform. Although the Quad-Father was never popular enough, Skulltrail will share the same idea: dual Socket 771 Xeon processors like the 45nm Harpertown supporting up to 8 processing cores and fully-buffered DIMMs (FB-DIMM). The Skulltrail system will use the upcoming Intel D5400XS motherboard. With two NVIDIA nForce 100 MCP chips, the D5400XS will support up to four PCI Express x16 slots, finally allowing SLI on an Intel motherboard. The motherboard will have a 10-layer PCB with limited production (2000 units reported earlier) and price over US $600. Today's word is that the Intel D5400XS motherboard is scheduled for a launch on WW06. That's short for Work Week 6, tech-speak for the sixth week of 2008. In other words if that's true, expect Skulltrail to be launched somewhere around Febuary 4-9, 2008.
Source:
Tech ARP
52 Comments on Intel Skulltrail Out in February 2008
Not that anyone would buy a enthusiest board with more expensive RAM, that runs slower than overclockable DDR2/3 standard DIMM's.
The people buying this are few and far between, thus the only 2000 production run.
and if they sell and ppl want more im sure they going to make more
2x Intel Xeon Harpertown 2x $296.00
2x2GB FB-DIMM 667MHz ~200$
4x NVIDIA 8800 Ultra's 4x 700$
Cooling ~100$
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~ 3700$ without the PSU and the additional +600$ for the motherboard
WoW
$1600.00 and the 3870 scales better.
$400 PC1600 DDR3 OCZ 2Gb kit
$300 Quad core
$1000 3870 X4
$2000 and better scaling, and performance.
~ $4300
i would go with dual x5XXX xeons. nothing like 8 cores! does it support regular ddr2?
Real world performance? Try some nice rendering or encoding. Again your $300 quad core loses. Things aren't as black and white as you like to think. There are plenty of uses for high end systems, not every geek uses a computer solely for gaming and pr0n.
You are absolutely correct to the point of being holy and surround by a myriad of CPU's singing your praises on all matters not gaming but rendering and encoding related when dealing with multi-socket systems.
But we deal with mostly gaming here on TPU. So nah. :p