Intel Skulltrail : UPDATE

[carmicael]

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Skulltrail ships with two SLI bridges
Written by Lars-Göran Nilsson
Monday, 21 January 2008 10:20

One seriously long ribbon cable

Some pictures have appeared online of what looks like the reviewer's kit of Intel's Skulltrail board, and although this might not be that exciting in itself apart from the fact that we might be seeing some reviews soon, the supplied SLI ribbon cable is what sets it apart.

If you take a look at the pictures you'll notice that it looks as if the supplied ribbon cable is meant to stretch halfway across the board, which makes us curious about how Intel has implemented SLI on this board. It could well be for 3-way SLI usage, but it appears that it wouldn't have a problem streching from the first to the last x16 slot on the board.

However, we know Nvidia didn't go for the flexible SLI cable approach in the early days of SLI, as there were signalling issues, so one has to wonder how well a long cable like this will work.

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=173773

[quinne]

looks nasty

[dbmike]

nindot lagi na.. ehehe

[inkodell]

did i see two cpu slots and four pci-e x16 slots am i right

[fish]

did i see two cpu slots and four pci-e x16 slots am i right

yup you're right... two cpu slots... and supports quad crossfire...

[Teban2006]

Wow its yup you're right... two Intel cpu slots... and supports AMD quad crossfire...hehehe business partners na diay sila ron Ering!,,^__^

[EarlZ]

Wow its yup you're right... two Intel cpu slots... and supports AMD quad crossfire...hehehe business partners na diay sila ron Ering!,,^__^

No they arnt, ATI's CF is a cross platform technology mainly driven by drivers and the native CF controller on the card

[ninzska21]

grrrr..

8 cores or 16 cores gonna rock..

i hope in will be a very good boost in games..

[EarlZ]

grrrr..

8 cores or 16 cores gonna rock..

i hope in will be a very good boost in games..

It wont be, and there wont be for a VERY long time, games are single threaded mostly. and they are not optimize for quadcores.

[butitoy]

It wont be, and there wont be for a VERY long time, games are single threaded mostly. and they are not optimize for quadcores.

yes

..but theres a great performance jump wen u play solitaire and starcraft1.