New Intel Skulltrail mobo

L31mr0d

Looks amazing :eek: and its an enthusiast board, not a server class only one, supporting SLI



Source:

http://www.hothardware.com/News/Intel_Skulltrail_Motherboard_Sneak_Peek/

PogMoThoin

Thats been talked about for a long time now. Its going to be a limited supply (few hundred only worldwide) and Intel are going to pick & choose the enthusiasts who get one. Doubt anyone in Irl will ever get their hands on one.

In reality, its just a big "up yours, we're doing this because we can" by Intel aimed at AMD. Just think of the costs of building a rig with one :eek:

awhir

ya its all ready broken a few WR

Fugger had his 2 chips ruinnng at 4.7 i think, now thats ammazing for a dual socket board.

Chosen

PogMoThoin wrote: »

Doubt anyone in Irl will ever get their hands on one.

I know someone that is expecting one to be delivered soon. Right after his ES Yorkfields that are also on their way... :rolleyes:

awhir

Chosen wrote: »

I know someone that is expecting one to be delivered soon. Right after his ES Yorkfields that are also on their way... :rolleyes:

haha nice one

i wonder if we set up a Irish overclocking team would we be able get some Es chips of Intel ,it also should be easier since where in Ireland.

Chosen

awhir wrote: »

haha nice one

i wonder if we set up a Irish overclocking team would we be able get some Es chips of Intel ,it also should be easier since where in Ireland.

Not necessarily: all procs for that matter, leave from US. The same applies for the procs sold through the employee purchase program

awhir

Chosen wrote: »

Not necessarily: all procs for that matter, leave from US. The same applies for the procs sold through the employee purchase program

cool so are any procs acctually made in IE ? or is it just R&d??

astrofool

They have a full fab in Ireland.

Anti

Im gonna have to get my hands on this.

papu

Anti wrote: »

Im gonna have to get my hands on this.

madness!

PogMoThoin

awhir wrote: »

cool so are any procs acctually made in IE ? or is it just R&d??

The silicon wafers are produced in Irl & then shipped abroad. AFAIK the Ihs is put on in Malysia & they're packaged in the Usa.

RoyalMarine

buy direct from intel only...
costing anywhere from 400 euro+
xeon support only??

no one in their right mind would buy one.

but would still be fun to play with it.

awhir

RoyalMarineComm wrote: »

buy direct from intel only...
costing anywhere from 400 euro+
xeon support only??

no one in their right mind would buy one.

but would still be fun to play with it.

no they support normal 45nm,

RoyalMarine

ah excellent. not too bad then. was thinking the price of a xeon wasnt gonna help...
suppose someone who could use 8 core's might look into it then..

but the cost to make it worthwhile would be off the scale...
no point in buying something like this + 2 45nm's and then putting in something other than high end gear..

would drool over 6 - 7 grand..

Chosen

awhir wrote: »

no they support normal 45nm,

That's 2 completely different things. Yes, it supports 45nm, and yes it's Xeon (Socket771) processors only. Which means no Q6600 or any other Socket775 CPU would fit here

awhir

hmm ya seems to be all xeons but i dont know how fugger got a qx9775 in to one

Chosen

awhir wrote: »

hmm ya seems to be all xeons but i dont know how fugger got a qx9775 in to one

He just popped it in. A 771 proc in a 771 board, where's the catch?

The QX9775 has identical specs, except it requires an LGA771 socket, that of a server platform.

awhir

ahh all these new proc names are confusen me so the qx9775 is a 771 that explainis it

thanks chosen.

Grim.

ouch awhir

Anti

hehe I think andy cot confused, as the cpu-z screenie does infact say lga775. So it snot his fault.

gline

"The motherboard has four PCI Express x16 slots" - Now thats sweet

does nvidia support quad sli these days?

Anti

Tri-sli is the best they do. But as usual new motherboards have features which have not been released yet.

gline

Anti wrote: »

Tri-sli is the best they do. But as usual new motherboards have features which have not been released yet.

i thought they did quad, there was a gigabyte mobo released ages ago that boasted quad sli and dell had a quad sli machine for sale also, a long time ago

PogMoThoin

Quad sli is available, as in 2x 7950gx2's. http://techreport.com/articles.x/11006 & this article is dated 2006.

unseen

@chosen
Peter do you want me to bring this with me?
This baby on water with 1,68vcore can do this.....
http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc.php?id=291983

papu

unseen wrote: »

@chosen
Peter do you want me to bring this with me?
This baby on water with 1,68vcore can do this.....
http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc.php?id=291983

1.68 thats Crazy!

Anti

Sweet baby jesus. I wonder how long untill that chip goes pop !

awhir

unseen wrote: »

@chosen
Peter do you want me to bring this with me?
This baby on water with 1,68vcore can do this.....
http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc.php?id=291983

haha is that the chip you were telling me about

crazy overclocks.

PogMoThoin

unseen wrote: »

@chosen
Peter do you want me to bring this with me?
This baby on water with 1,68vcore can do this.....
http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc.php?id=291983

LOL, thats sweet.

Chosen

unseen wrote: »

@chosen
Peter do you want me to bring this with me?
This baby on water with 1,68vcore can do this.....
http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc.php?id=291983

Nah, I already have one for my Home Theater pc...
WHAT KIND OF QUESTIONS ARE THESE??? Ofcourse you have to bring it! And a pot!
And I'll put the Maximus, the Ballistix and the Arctic Silver =]

conzy

1.68 vcore on a 45nm chip

Its gonna go pop!

awhir

conzymaher wrote: »

1.68 vcore on a 45nm chip

Its gonna go pop!

not really,why you all freaking out with the voltage ? that was a bench ?

papu

cause thats fairly dodgy on a 65nm , but on a 45nm im very suprised :P

Grim.

from http://www.techpowerup.com/?49680

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.

pred racer

very in depth article here.....http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/Skulltrail-QX9775-D5400XS-Octo-Core,review-30180.html

Hard to read, as usual with tomshardware's policy of only allowing 10 words per page, and running this article to about 35 pages. but it looks like there are alot of negatives for this board.

gline

pred racer wrote: »

very in depth article here.....http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/Skulltrail-QX9775-D5400XS-Octo-Core,review-30180.html

Hard to read, as usual with tomshardware's policy of only allowing 10 words per page, and running this article to about 35 pages. but it looks like there are alot of negatives for this board.

looks crap

MooseJam

yeah after reading the article it turns out its sh1t, makes me feel a lot better

po0k

It's a server board.
FB-DIMMs....ffs. I mean honestly.