Not just small fries – Intel’s Skulltrail platform sports 8 cores running at 4 GHz each and uses a quad-core memory interface. Developed out of fear of AMD’s Phenom, Intel’s fastest hardware meets underdeveloped software.

http://www.tomshardware.com/2008/0 [...] index.html

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Fugger just ran 3DMark06 on his OC'd skulltrail system with 8800 Ultras in SLI.



Original Thread..
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forum [...] p?t=176049


Futuremark Page...
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=5070435

3DMark Score 29905 3DMarks

SM 2.0 Score 11282 Marks

SM 3.0 Score 12529 Marks

CPU Score 12293 Marks


I see him teaming up with k|ngp|n again and just demolishing their current 3DMark records.

OMG!!!! I could rip and encode 8 dvd once with DivX. Please tell me this is so, so I can wake up.

http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipse [...] =3216&p=10

But its crap for many games as the memory latency is a joke.

It is a monster workstation though !!

For the money, better off just building an actual workstation with a mobo that has more than 4 DIMMS.

They cracked on quad FX because IT SUCKED.

Or could it be you had too much of whatever you're smoking, and forgot that Quad FX was demolished by Intel's first generation quad core?

I am impressed though ... it is closer to the gamers dream.

It is a pity they didn't fix the ram issue ... but then the QF sucked power up like a dog and had it's own issues with IPC.

If anyone gets it right soon I have no doubt it will be Intel.

In the meantime there is no reason to buy it over a souped up single socket Yorkie with all of the fruit ... and half the cost.

The broodlings dance feverishly round the flames ...

Is all we know is that most games werent optimized for this technology?

Anyone getting hard over this thinking about gaming should start thinking about my naked grandma instead.

The whole review was a waste of time, in my opinion. Why bother with something that doesn't do anything practical, as far as gamers are concerned? Unless that was the point, to make gamers aware of how bad this setup is, as well as how expensive.

All this proves is that software is so far behind modern computer tech there is no reason to upgrade to more cores. Skulltrail and it's FB-DIMM crap is useless unless you're a Cinebench whore. 8 Cores is only useful in a workstation environment and that may hold true for the next 2 years. Even Nehalem in it's 8 core revision will mostly go unused despite the 2009 time frame. Software simply has not caught up and they're still taking their merry time to do so. We have had multiple cores for years and even 64bit capability before that, and we still have not seen software that fully uses generation old technology. Gaming is actually better on single CPU systems simply due to the lower latency as compared to Skulltrail. Skulltrail is probably doomed and until Quick Path hits, multi-socket Intel systems will not be the way to go. Skulltrail = FAIL.

I agree with wingless. Software developers are way WAY behind the game here. They've known about dual core coming for at least 3.5 years, and dual cores have been available on market for at least 2. And yet we're still not seeing any games that utilize more than one core? Lazy lazy lazy.

Yes. softwarez developers liek teh NSA.
8corewarz. morris would be proud.

where is amd with there dual quad core system with a lower power use chipset. The 790FX chipset can be used with a dual cpu setup and it will use a lot less power then the skultrail chipset with more pci-e 2.0 lanes and 2 dual channels sets with DESKTOP RAM.
2 channels per cpu.

That idea sounds suspiciously like the now abandoned QFX, just updated in a couple areas.

No wait, let me think about this a minute; a 790FX with a Phenom equals a hot, slow running, power hungry, buggy setup. A 790FX with two Phenoms equals an extremely hot, slow running, very power hungry, twice as buggy setup. I think I'll pass on this.

Umm... am I the only one that read the whole article? This setup seems about as practicel as whipping your bottom with a pine cone. Some of the #s are impressive but the layout is useless. You can't run 4 video cards, even if you could they would block significant air flow to the South Bridge cooler which is already noisy. I'm sorry, but i think this would be an immense waste of money and time to setup. Not to mention the added cost of powering it. There are bragging rights and then there is just blind stupidity. I think I will wait to see how the nVidia 790i chip set turns out. If you are a gamer then even going quad core right now or even for the next year or two is really just a waste as there aren't many games coded to use more then 2-4 cores. To all you graphics pros and artists... good luck and enjoy!