Intel SkullTrail at 4GHz, Air and Water Cooled
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Intel SkullTrail @ 4GHz Air and Water Cooled
The system on the left is a custom Alienware rig based on the Skulltrail platform that features a liquid-cooling system and a pair of GeForce 8800 Ultras running in SLI mode. The dual Core 2 Extreme X9775 processors in the system were running at 4GHz (10 x 400MHz), and according to the BIOS hardware monitor, the chips hummed along at a relatively cool 40 degrees while idling. The system's specifics can be seen in the CPU-Z screenshot above.
In addition to the Alienware system, the folks from Intel's performance lab also assembled an air-cooled SkullTrail system of their own, which also happened to be clocked at 4GHz. This system, however, used a pair of Thermalright air coolers on the processors. With these high clock speeds, and some relatively speedy DDR2-800 CAS 3 FB-DIMMs, the 4GHz SkullTrail rigs burned through the Cinebench R9.5 multi-threaded test in only 6 seconds and the Cinebench R10 benchmark in only 35 seconds.
Stay tuned for more on SkullTrail in the weeks ahead.
Comments
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very cool, overkill but very cool |
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Hi All, Agreed about it being overkill & also about it being very cool |
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what is skulltrail? |
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Skulltrail is Intel's new extreme gaming system consisting of two extreme quad xeon cpu's and all the amenities of a regular gaming machine put onto a server like setup. |
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I want bigger Pics! Mainly the ones of the cosmos case. |
I want those Cas3 dimms! lol... I e-mailed kingston regarding those and they stated there was no date set...>_<...I just hope it comes out soon...=P. |
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4ghz is defiently overkill but hey if i had the stuff id do it |
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4 ghz would be easy..use just need to change the multiplier =P. 9x400 = 3.2 ghz (stock qx9775), 10x400 = 4 ghz....a very simple oc...=D |
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but overkill what can really use 8 cores at 4ghz |
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Very impressive system. I would love to try one of these out. Althoug if they would have overclocked the GPUs a bit, I bet they could have hit around 19000 or maybe even 20000 in 3DMark06. |
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I like a lot the design of the case |
Like EVERY workstation app, 3d modeling applicatins, MEGUI for h264 encoding, Folding@home, Premiere, After Effects, Cubase...The workstation platforms have been multithreaded for ages...and they can fully utilize all cores to 100% =P. |
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if you are a normal user,and you want to use this machine at day to day apps,it is not worth it because the apps are not more than 2 core optimised |
Very true...If you just game, no point, you may as well just pick up a single quad core and it'll do you justice =P. But luckily for me...I run plenty of workstation applications =D. |
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that skulltrail should make workstaion apps fly |
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Indeed..I can't wait to benchmark the sucker =D. |
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Wow, good to see alot of programs finally going multi-threaded.
Extremely impressive performance, very expensive, but hey, when your getting paid $90,000 per year, $5,000 to make you +20% more productive is certainly worth it. |
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