Fozzy Fozborne Posted February 8, 2008 Share Posted February 8, 2008 One glance at the Intel D5400XS motherboard with its dual-CPU sockets and active chipset cooling is enough to tell you that this isn't your normal PC motherboard. Code named Skulltrail, the Intel D5400XS represents Intel's ultimate PC motherboard platform. Regular motherboards only have a single CPU socket, two PCI Express slots, and support for only one of the two competing dual-GPU formats. In comparison, the Skulltrail has two processor sockets, four x16 PCI Express video card slots, and built-in support for both SLI and CrossFire. If you set two Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9775 processors in the board, you have an 8-core monster ready to run. Gamespot The new skulltrail motherboard/CPU combination unlocks the possibility to run 2 quad cores in a configuration similar to the AMD FX/4X4 platform. But, why have 8 cores in a computer when almost all games don't support 4? Will all multi-threaded apps support all these processors at once? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otter Posted February 8, 2008 Share Posted February 8, 2008 Ha! Not to mention 4 quad core GPUS.... 16GPU f*cking brute strength. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fozzy Fozborne Posted February 8, 2008 Author Share Posted February 8, 2008 AND quad Cross fire AND quad SLI support (presumably with the new 3870 X2 and 9800 GX2, that's 8 graphics processors and 8 gigs of video RAM). Wow, that's insane. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otter Posted February 8, 2008 Share Posted February 8, 2008 (edited) Of course - you can already get it on a mac. The 8 core tower actually gives me a bit of a boner. Edit Imagine four of these bastards: http://www.ncix.com/products/index.php?sku...hnologies%20Inc Edited February 8, 2008 by Otter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fozzy Fozborne Posted February 8, 2008 Author Share Posted February 8, 2008 CADD and Photoshop would be astonishing, but gaming performance on that system would be downright bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otter Posted February 8, 2008 Share Posted February 8, 2008 Yeah, I'm more salivating over the render speeds. As we speak, I'm outputting 9 seconds of animation - HOUR LONG RENDER. Oi vey. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fozzy Fozborne Posted February 8, 2008 Author Share Posted February 8, 2008 I'm curious as to what you're doing (for work or pleasure) and what you're rendering with. 9 seconds for an hour seems like a lot considering that you can render even the highest definition video in almost real-time on dual-core systems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocketkiller Posted February 8, 2008 Share Posted February 8, 2008 I'm curious as to what you're doing (for work or pleasure) and what you're rendering with. 9 seconds for an hour seems like a lot considering that you can render even the highest definition video in almost real-time on dual-core systems. He's talking about 3D rendering here. Yea that stuff takes forever. I also read that the ultimate workstation 3D card is actually the firegl based on the HD2900, and you can softmod a normal HD2900XT to a firegl. You could try that out instead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Picolini Posted February 8, 2008 Share Posted February 8, 2008 I was just doing some photo editing and noticed how slow my CPU is I also had FireFox open, as well as WMP playing a video, and using Photoshop CS3 to edit the photos. So that probably wasn't helping, lol. Earlier I had all that going and Lightroom open, and my RAM actually hit 80%! It turned red on the meter, first time I've ever seen it get that high! Now dual Quad cores... sh*t that'd be sweet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otter Posted February 8, 2008 Share Posted February 8, 2008 (edited) Yeah, 3D, but using after effect's notoriously slow rendering engine. I'm making an animated intro for a corporate awards ceremony. FUN STUFF! I work for an ad agency here in town, they're one of the bigger clients. Edited February 8, 2008 by Otter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SyphonPayne Posted February 8, 2008 Share Posted February 8, 2008 Me personally I'm waiting for the Intel Skullf*ck which has 32 cores and 16 PCI-E slots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BroDan Posted February 9, 2008 Share Posted February 9, 2008 Sigh... Always updating stuff to quick. I'll live with my quadcore for a bit longer. Still alive, lurking in the shadows. BF3 Profile Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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