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Intel May Prepare a Nehalem-Based Skulltrail

About a year ago, the giant chip manufacturer Intel announced its Skulltrail platform at IDF in Taipei. There are only two weeks left until this year's event, October 20-21, and news on the Web says that the company is expected to unveil some information on a fresh Skulltrail platform, a Nehalem-based, which wi...

7 October 2008
05:29 GMT

Thirdwave Unveils Skulltrail Gaming Rig With SSD Storage

System builder Thirdwave has introduced a new Skulltrail-based gaming system built around Intel's flagship quad-core QX9775 processors. The extremely powerful computing system is packed with fans and coolers to ensure proper heat dissipation and top performance even when operating at full load.The new desktop PC...

5 May 2008
11:44 GMT

Intel Might Terminate the Skulltrail Gaming Processor

The recently published price list for the newly-introduced Atom processors might shed new light over the future of the Skulltrail processor. Despite the fact that it is one of the most powerful CPUs commercially available on the market, its availability might reach a premature end.Intel's updated price list espe...

5 April 2008
03:58 GMT

Intel's Skulltrail Quad-Core Chip Gets Listed

Intel's highest-end processor QX9775 has been listed on the company's website, which indicates that it has finally reached mass-availability. Targeted especially at the high-end and enthusiast markets, the quad-core QX9775 is a tweaked server chip that forms the heart of the high-end gaming Skulltrail platf...

28 March 2008
11:11 GMT

Skulltrail Attacak: $9,000 Gaming Rigs From Maingear

Boutique PC vendor Maingear Computers has introduced the EPHEX Skulltrail gaming computer based on Intel's Skulltrail enthusiast platform. The dual-processor beast can deliver extreme graphics performance thanks to the four-GPU CrossFireX link.Built on top of Intel's D5400XS motherboard, the EPHEX Skulltrai...

14 March 2008
10:27 GMT

Boutique PC Manufacturer to Unveil Skulltrail-Ready Water Cooling Solution

United Kingdom-based Blastflow, a subsidiary of PC vendor Vadim Computers has just unveiled the Blastflow Tidal Skulltrail SB Block, a watercooling solution for the extremely hot Skulltrail enthusiast platform.If you are one of the few lucky enthusiasts that can afford a brand-new Skulltrail-powered gaming rig, then ...

12 March 2008
12:30 GMT

Vigor to Introduce $8000 Colossus Gaming Rig Built With Skulltrail Hardware

Boutique system integrator Vigor has introduced a new killing machine to fuel the gamers' need for computing power. Thought you were a lame gamer because of the limited amount of horsepower your rig could deliver? Take a ride into the new dual-quad-core offering from Vigor and see it for yourself.The Colossus ga...

11 March 2008
05:19 GMT

Super Talent to Release Inexpensive 800 MHz FB-DIMM Memory

FB-DIMM memory fans have now yet another reason to celebrate, as memory manufacturer Super Talent has just announced new inexpensive FB-DIMM modules working at DDR2-800 speeds. FB-DIMM memory modules are not so popular as their regular DIMM counterparts. They are special modules designed to work in high-workload envi...

27 February 2008
05:11 GMT

Puget to Announce New Skulltrail-Based Gaming Rig

Boutique integrator of custom PC systems Puget announced a new high-performance gaming system, called the Deluge-II, built on the Intel Skulltrail platform. Although not as famous as Alienware, Puget made a name out of its custom PC systems for enthusiasts, gamers, consumers and SMB markets, and if you are wondering ...

26 February 2008
10:12 GMT

Asus Released Skulltrail Motherboard, Lacks SLI

Asus has just released its Z7S WS workstation motherboard that comes with two LGA 771 processor sockets. The new motherboard is the base of Intel's recently announced Skulltrail enthusiast platform.Apart from the two LGA 771 sockets tailored for the latest quad-core chips from Intel, the motherboard packs the la...

26 February 2008
09:24 GMT

Is Intel's Skulltrail Platform Ready for Gaming?

Intel has just launched its new 8-core enthusiast platform, the Skulltrail, and the company expects that it will get widely adopted within the enthusiast and gaming communities all over the world. The advent of the Skulltrail platform was strategically planned to kick AMD's Spider platform straight in the gut, a...

21 February 2008
08:43 GMT

Lexar to Introduce Crucial DDR2 FBDIMM Memory Kits

Memory manufacturer Lexar Media has just announced the availability of its new memory offering, comprised of Crucial 800MHz fully buffered DIMM (FBDIMM) memory modules. The kits are available in sizes of GB, 4GB and 8GB, and are the perfect companion for the newly-released Skulltrail gaming platform from Intel.The Cr...

21 February 2008
04:27 GMT

Intel: Introducing the Dual-CPU Skulltrail Platform

The Skulltrail platform has had its share of attention during the last year, mostly because it's supposed to be the most powerful dual-processor system aimed at enthusiasts, rather than at the server business. Although the average user will not be tempted to pump that much money into a system, it's good to ...

20 February 2008
03:04 GMT

Intel's Dual-CPU Beast: Skulltrail Finally Gets Detailed

The Xeon platform, although extremely powerful and overclockable, has been kept off the consumers' hands for 10 years now. It was about time that Intel released a consumer-oriented alternative based on the powerful Xeons, and the 10th Xeon anniversary will bring us the Skulltrail beast in all its splendor. Skull...

4 February 2008
08:52 GMT

Intell's Skulltrail to Sport Long SLI Bridges

Unless you have been living under a rock, you must have heard of Intel's Skulltrail platform, the only dual-processor architecture that does not fit in the Server class of computers. The Skulltrail is scheduled to kick in during the first quarter of 2008, and will replace the media creation platform V8, intel�...

22 January 2008
06:36 GMT

CES 2008: Skulltrail is Ready and Good to Go

Intel's Skulltrail platform is the only quad-core architecture on the market for regular users and performance enthusiasts. The new platform is especially dedicated to the gaming sector and promise to be quite a performance leap. The two CPU / 8 core overclockable platform comes with x16 PCI-Express slots suppo...

10 January 2008
03:49 GMT

Intel Skulltrail Platform Challenges AMD's Quad FX

If you want a manual on "how to take on AMD for everything they've got" just ask Intel, they've got just the thing for you, seeing as how their determination has led them into a whole bunch of mishaps, including an ongoing trial with AMD, in which Intel "accidentally" erased the employers' e-mails and ...

17 April 2007
06:22 GMT




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