Intel Skulltrail with SLI and Crossfire Support
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Its a new Hybrid board that comprises the X38/X48 and the 5400 Chipset. It will house 2x Desktop CPU's or Xeon CPU's... We are awaiting our silver sample... 
I think you will be looking more than £300
..yey.. lets hope santa does a round trip this year and drops one on my door step late jan 
.. i mean c'mon.. have they heard of marketing, who on earth would buy that, thats just too expensive.. your looking at a pc setup at around £3000.. that'd be fine just as a technical excersize, but as a marketable product.. nope, the only thing this would be for would be graphics design, and nvidia already has that graphic design computer at a few grand.. in my opinion the computer market is too volatile to spend oodles of money at one time liek the jump between dx9 and dx10 making many cards practiaclly obsolte overnight.. well .. except for the fact that crysis doesnt even use dx10 .. not a whiff...
.. i mean c'mon.. have they heard of marketing, who on earth would buy that, thats just too expensive.. your looking at a pc setup at around £3000.. that'd be fine just as a technical excersize, but as a marketable product.. nope, the only thing this would be for would be graphics design, and nvidia already has that graphic design computer at a few grand.. in my opinion the computer market is too volatile to spend oodles of money at one time liek the jump between dx9 and dx10 making many cards practiaclly obsolte overnight.. well .. except for the fact that crysis doesnt even use dx10 .. not a whiff...
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And maingear are offering this as a gaming pc it seems.
It is... SLI, unbuffered RAM, it's *not* a server board despite the cpu socket.
IMO it's an 'Intel Publicity PC' - it'll generate a lot of press interest and reinforce Intels image as kings of performance, but it won't be sold in large numbers.
Just like AMD's Quad fx board then,
It makes no real sense a dual socket board these days always as the CPU cores seam to be breading like rabbits.
For serious sli and crossfire, you'll need 2 quad chips to provide enough info to the gpu's (and process the sli/cf overheads) (if the games can actually support that many threads cpu core properly... which frankly, many don't).
As others have echoed, totally pointless to market a product that people can't reasonably buy.
Matthew
As others have echoed, totally pointless to market a product that people can't reasonably buy.
Matthew
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