What game-centric crapola. All you posters who say noone needs that much power. You are so clueless. I expect to live another fifty years and in that time I don't expect to once call my computer "fast enough".


I like this idea and am looking forward to people using this to smash the SuperPI, wPrime, 3D Mark, etc world records.

Fugger will probably be the first to do it:
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=175884

rendar_23: its obviously not aimed at you if thats what you think and thats fine because its really not aimed at many people

If you tried running Vista on an overclocked machine, would that slow it down so much that it wouldn't be overclocking any more, so much as over-calendaring?

Agree with Pengwin, its a waste of power and money to get that performance, plus the 2 graphics cards your going to install there. 1kw porwer supply? geez

The first dual processor desktop board?

No way!

1) It's full of loud fans, hallmark of servers.

2) Tyan had the EATX Tiger MP in circa 2001.

3) Abit had the ATX BP6 in circa 1999.

4) Abit had the ATX VP6 in circa 2000.

5) IIRC: ASUS had dual CPU P3 ATX board around the time of the VP6, as did Gigabyte, and companies other than Tyan sold dual CPU Athlon MP boards in 2002 and 2003.

Those Tyan and Abit boards were widely available. The BP6 was justly famous.

The Abit boards ran Intel, (BP6 unsanctioned and VP6 sanctioned by Intel). The BP6 was an excellent overclocker: 360MHz Celerons ran at 550 MHz stable for me.

The Tyan ran AMD Athlon MP, which was a very good chip. It's BIOS did not have any overclocking features to speak of.

This article gives a good description of the pros and cons of skulltrail, but the superlatives are unwarranted - most particularly given the extraordinary price of a skulltrail system. 

I never cease to be amazed by the hype about all the new systems from Intel. My Quad FX does 14.5 Gb/s. This Intel rig does 8.5 Gb/s and it's good?

Sad AMD has botched their more recent efforts and I still can't have anything, except some Barcelona rigs that get close to the Quad FX.

Kicks so much Skulltrail ass...

muahahaha

http://www.hothardware.com/Articles/Intel_Skulltrail_Unleashed_Core_2_Extreme_QX9775_x_2/ 

Heres another HOT article, yet note it is not /Windows Ultimate certified.

drashek

Ultie Tom Smiles, yet will vantage hit big time with four cards, CHRIST this thing needs SEVEN.

Tyan has been workstation powerhouse, yet this is beyond power, its new era getting ready for much faster slots. Its' engine for todays Workstation.

Tell us ole southes, whats its ULTIMATE 64 scores & when can we see Vantage/2008/Ultimate scores. My eyelids are hitting 234 Flickers per.

thomas stewart von drashek

this whole idea is cool if you like overclocking and all. but it doesnt have a 64 bit slot for a nice SAS Raid card, what a shame

Who would need a dual 4Ghz+ system anyway? Overclocking for the sake of it?
Also the PSU they used is not that good for a 1500W, they should've used a Enermax Galaxy 1000W or PC Power And Cooling Turbo-cool 1200. Ive read reviews on both these PSUs and they exceed their rated power!

Bas,

That 8 socket dual-core Opteron mobo with CPUs will cost roughly 8x more than this Skulltrail plus two QX9775 CPUs - and it might not perform any better in many tasks... just look how much do Opteron 8-socket CPUs cost...

Tyan's 8 CPU board ran Opterons which are a SERVER chip, not a DESKTOP chip. Server chips have disadvantages for workstation use, registered memory with slow timings etc...

i thought the AMD 4x4 was a stupid enough idea, but this Intel one is just as bad.
the amount of circuitry on that board just to have 2 sockets and 4 PCIe sockets is astounding.

the power inefficiency is amazingly BAD and i can't believe the amount of effort and brute force this board uses just to have the features and performance.
the power WASTED to get the performance level is ridiculous.

What rubbish, Tyan has a 8 CPU K8 Dual core board, lets you put 16!!!! cores on it.
That's twice the Intel thinggy and about 2 years old.
You are posting pure Intel FUD.
AMD has many solutions, sure it's called Opteron boards, but you can happily came on them, just like any other Desktop board.

BTW, I run quad-core AMD K8 way before Intel even knew they have a dual core.
Simply with the K8N Master from MSI and a couple of Opteron 270's.