X-bit labs

Started by: 1234 | Date 10/12/07

Comments: 20 | Last Comment:  01/10/08

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1. *lol* this stuff is LETHAL =)

2. LMFAO at $1500 per cpu!!!

Is anybody really gonna buy this thing?

ya rich kids, with rich parents who don't know anything about computers.

Dell sold out of their limited edition $10,000 Quad SLI boxes if that tells you anything :)

3. Meh, thats just plain crazy...
I was thinking more in the lines of buy a quad core normal cpu, and add one later on whene the price drops and do the same thing with the graphic cards
Hell guess ill rather go for a normal system...

4. This is simply overkill for gaming alone. There's no game in the next two years that will utilize this power probably, so at least in that respect, this system should be future proof, at least the CPU's.

But then again Nelaham, Penryn's sucessor will be out in Q3 2008, with 8 cores on one chip anyway.

Nelham will be my next poison.

Some people might want 32xAA at 2560x1600 at 60+FPS in all games :D

5. Yeah early adopting this is dumb, unless you make $100,000+ a year and don't care about wasting money =D

1 year from now we'll be able to build octa (8) core computers for only $2000 or less..... Will 8 cores even show an improvement in any applications or games? Probably, but is 4 cores enough for now? Absolutely.


Intell is releasing this for braggin rights only.

Hellgate:London, Unreal 3 engine games, etc.

Not that 8 cores is anywhere near a requirement, but they are threaded enough to run on octal core machines.

6. Are you sure about the LGA775 socket for skulltrail? This is bad news for me. I was waiting for a decent dual socket, overclocking friendly, Xeon motherboard for quite a while and I thight my wish had come true. Now it seems that they are just going to use their Extreme series quad core processors for this (with the possibility of also using and Core 2 processors?) system and not Xeons. SUCKS! My 5050s are going to go to waste :(

7. This is not dumb or insane. Having 8 cores and 4 Nvidia graphic cards is possible thanks to the technological innovation and advancements at Intel. If you have the money... why not? If you don't too bad. Hey, there are people who might want to run Crysis @2560*1600 with 4AA and this would not be possible with one or two 8800GTX. (I won't even mention the junk ATI cards).

For that you buy the 4x4 that’s much cheaper and its here already at one year ago.
Let me guess for you AMD 4x4 sucks! Intel Skulltrail is superb!

4X4 only has 4 cores, boy. and only has 2xSLI.
this one has 8 cores and 4xSLI. do you see the difference?

The 4X4 socket F can be fitted with two AMD Phenom FX91 quad cores

8. Windows Vista can not handle more than two video cards, so the system is already a waste even if the price does not push (rich) users away. Linux can handle multiple video cards easily. Intel Core 2 Duo never needs high performance RAM such as FB-DIMM. FB-DIMM do not perform well. They just consume more power.

9. Wow, I think i'll just stick with my 6000 and Celerons for the future. This is nice for those who don't mind spending the money, since finally they'll be getting the systems they always wanted.

10. Grab an Intel quad core w/ dual 8800 GTX and you'll be fine for a while.
I'm personally going to wait to get this when its oct core on one chip.
Remember people at one later point in time, this is going to be considered SLOW.

11. pricing surely will anger many users. CPU's are almost worthless year later

12. Ouch, beating AMD again at their own game. The price of this system will probably come down when AMD launches their own 8 core setup. Of course AMD better do it fast before Intel goes out with 16 core setup, and of course knowing Intel you will need to buy a new dual socket motherboard ^_^.

13. If Intel truely cared about making an all-out gamer board, it would be LGA 775, and use DDR3, not just a revamped server board. From everything I have read, FB-DIMMs suck, end of story. Why build such a board? Because there will never be a volume of purchases to drive the price down., in other words, pure profit hunting. What a waste.

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