Follow the Skulltrail
THE HARDWARE PAGEFILLER of the day was undoubtedly the Skulltrail review/preview bonanza that struck deep into the heart of the interwibble. The Skulltrail promises enthusiasts and uncomparable platform for them to frolic to their heart’s content. This platform is actually LGA 771-socketed (ie: Xeon’s and the QX9775) and is in essence a workstation-turned-enthusiast motherboard running eight cores and the possibility of 4 GPU’s. Overall the Skulltrail is delivering quite a punch on processing, but its promise was primarily towards the gaming community and well... read it for yourself. Here’s a list of sites providing you detailed previews/reviews on Skulltrail performance. We recommend some extra attention on the PC Perspective review, as they have SLI and Crossfire benchies available.
The consensus on the HD 3870X2, amongst hardware sites, seems to be quite simply that it’d perform much better if it had the necessary drivers operating the right way. FPSLabs thought it would prove interesting to discuss the matter of CrossfireX scaling a bit further. They did some more testing (with the pre-release evaluation drivers, as they do warn people to pay attention to this fact), and you can see that it isn’t all bad news. But with DAAMIT’s previous history and the longer driver development cycles, they really need to put out the real thing. Get your load of multi-GPU action here.
The Macbook Air might the thinnest laptop under the sun, but it isn’t certainly the highest performing or fully-featured one. Ars Technica has one in their scope and they really do a thorough job of going over all its features (or absence thereof). Quite frankly, Apple should’ve called it the MacBook Sidekick, as it really plays second fiddle to other Macs, by function and by features. Don’t buy one without reading this review here.
Zalman isn’t just about power and silent cooling, it’s also about cases, HTPC cases to be more precise, as you can see at Bit Tech today, where Richard takes apart an HD160XT Plus HTPC case. As in most things Zalman, it looks good, it feels good, and it costs a lot – thanks to its 7” 800x600 touchscreen. Well built, but ultimately Bit Tech ponders: “Why?” Read it here.
ChileHardware has an “overclocking for Dummies” guide up, and like they say: “there is something very important you have to know, you cannot break the laws of thermodynamics. You simply can’t, it’s impossible no matter how hard you try or read about it on the Internet. The only one who can break them is Chuck Norris. He doesn’t read guides, he just enjoys his 8GHz CPU cooled to absolute zero with the momentum of a roundhouse kick he gave 8 months ago.” Sounds like a good read. Oh, oh... English. µ
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When I heard skulltrail required FB-RAM I knew it was a dead duck, and a joke, and that it requires 2 CPU's costing $1000+ each, well common now..
Basically only the reviewers and steve and bill will use it, if they are at all interested, and perhaps someone in management at EA will get one for 'real ingame footage' trailers.

Few of the press said Skulltrail is guilty of having FB-DIMM, just look at the records it is beating every day... This machine is not design to work at stock, those who understood are in the Hall of fame of 3Dmark, Frit chess, or wprime. The others???? well, they did not understand ....