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Intel Demos Core 2 Extreme QX9650 Quad-Core At IDF

Posted by Zonk on from the kind-of-a-morbid-name dept.

MojoKid writes "Intel demonstrated a dual socket gaming rig at IDF this week, based on their Skulltrail platform with the X38 chipset. The interesting thing about this machine wasn't just that it had 45nm quad-core CPUs in its sockets, as well as PCI Express 2.0 capable slots, but also that it was running a pair of NVIDIA graphics cards in SLI. That's right, SLI on an Intel chipset. No word whether or not X38 would officially be supported with SLI just yet. In fact, NVIDIA representatives noted Intel was buying NVIDIA nForce 100 SLI Southbridges just for this one Intel motherboard model."

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  1. Super duper deca-core X8789FDS extreme by Daimanta · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Seriously, what is it with these names?

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  2. That's not surprising by Sycraft-fu · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'm sure ATi is not high on Intel's list of people to be nice to now that AMD owns them. Whatever reason they had for choosing crossfire in the first place has now been reassessed I'm sure. Intel isn't going to do anything stupid like prevent ATi card from running on their boards, but neither are they likely to go out of their way to support anything ATi specific anymore.

  3. Useful, or like chrome on the car? by davmoo · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'm not a gamer, so I have to ask...

    Is the current state of game software such that it really can take advantage of things like 8 cores? Or is this marketing hype and chest-thumping, but little else?

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