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Loading ...Skulltrail on its way
James Gorbold
I just finished a very productive phone call with Intel’s helpful PR chap. After discussing the merits of Christmas pudding he revealed that a Skulltrail demo kit (CPUs, motherboard, RAM, HSFs) is on its way to CPC, ETA this Friday. Hopefully this means we’ll be able to start uploading some benchmark results from this monster system sometime next week.
For those not aware what Skulltrail is its Intel’s attempt to provide the ultimate PC platform. Thus, it comprises two overclockable quad-core CPUs (not Xeons, but Core 2 Extremes) and a motherboard that supports SLI and CrossFire. Obviously its going to be extremely expensive, but it should generate some awesome benchmark numbers.
As the kit hasn’t arrived yet, I haven’t got any photo’s to show you, so here’s a cool photo of a skull shaped rock in the Mojave desert.
please let us know if its still damn good value with cheaper overclocked xeons (i think i heard it fits 5xxx)
Yes, the D5400XS does work with cheaper 5400-series Xeons, although I doubt they would overclock as well as the QX9775 CPUs. Don’t forget you don’t have to buy two CPUs either, you could always just buy one CPU for now and another later on.
the D5400XS does work with cheaper 5400-series Xeons, although I doubt they would overclock as well as the QX9775 CPUs.