On IDF Intel showed the platform, which has as basic competitor AMD FASN8 . In the beginning of the following year intel company will present skulltrail platform , which can be described as high speed work station adapted for gamer.
As base of skulltrail platform will lie the motherboard, built on seaburg chipset . Taking in account that this chipset is originally intended for two-processor work stations, this motherboard support two four core processors xeon penryn generation with system bus 1600 MHz. We should note that the special features of this chipset that each processor is connected with the north bridge on the chosen system bus. Also, This motherboard support four-channel memory system .
The applicability of this motherboard as gamer platform is ensured by the presence of four valuable slots PCI express x16, which, according to intel assertions , will be support Quad SLI. However, this does not absolutely mean that SLI support will appear in all intel chipsets .
In practice, Intel showed the prototype of skulltrail system with two video card from NVIDIA, and two 3GHz four core processors xeon on 45 nm core harpertown with the unlocked multiplier .
Let us note that as the best overclocker traditions, for CPU cooling intel used a water cooling system . .
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