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Intel in the GHz Game Again - Skulltrail Hits 5 GHz

Posted by Zonk on from the spookily-appropriate-code-name dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Intel's Skulltrail dual-socket enthusiast platform has been making the rounds on the web for half a year or so, but we haven't seen many details yet. TG Daily got a close look at an almost complete prototype, which surely sounds almost like a production ready version, judging from the article. Everything that TG Daily describes sounds like Skulltrail PCs will be very limited in availability and insanely expensive. Intel also has said it has developed 'special' Xeon processors with desktop processor attributes just for Skulltrail. These chips are currently running at a stable 5 GHz."

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  1. I guess... by cesman · · Score: 4, Funny

    I guess the skulls in it's trail are the heads of AMD execs.

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    1. Re:I guess... by arivanov · · Score: 4, Funny

      No... They are the skulls of White Bears who have fallen through the ice because the water in the arctic got warmed up too much by the water cooling kit this beast requires to operate.

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    2. Re:I guess... by Hal_Porter · · Score: 3, Funny

      No... They are the skulls of White Bears who have fallen through the ice because the water in the arctic got warmed up too much by the water cooling kit this beast requires to operate. You could probably render photorealistic White Bears in realtime on this beasty. And do the AI and physics too. Certainly good enough to use them as enemies in a arctic themed FPS.

      So it all works out in the long run.
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  2. Also, Duncan Hill Coffee by User+956 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Everything that TG Daily describes sounds like Skulltrail PCs will be very limited in availability and insanely expensive.

    Obviously, it's the only architecture hand-designed by Dethklok.

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  3. Imagine a.... by HalifaxRage · · Score: 1, Funny

    Just imagine a Cluster of nerds waiting in line for Beowulf!

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  4. Yes, but by paranode · · Score: 4, Funny

    The silicon pathways are provided by Monster Cable.

    1. Re:Yes, but by Cecil · · Score: 4, Funny

      And they're made out of superconducting adamantium. As a result, all games played on these processors will have higher quality storylines. It's a little known fact that copper causes destructive interference with the story's sine wave.

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  5. its by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    its

  6. Re:But... by sm62704 · · Score: 5, Funny
    But can it run on Linux?

    Dude, you can run linux on a wristwatch. The question is, can it run Vista?

    From an old K5 diary:

    At any rate, I tell the guy about my dead Celeron and how I want to upgrade the motherboard, and get some memory, and get a video card so I can plug it into the TV. He tries to sell me a supercomputer cluster, and I say no, I'm not much into computer gaming any more so a pretty low end one would do.
    -mcgrew

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  7. Where did my /. go? by blueZ3 · · Score: 4, Funny

    You just made an almost-sensible car analogy. I didn't think that was allowed here.

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  8. Stable by raddan · · Score: 4, Funny

    As long as you have an ample supply of liquid nitrogen.

  9. bragging rights by DreadSpoon · · Score: 5, Funny

    To many people that's all they're looking for. It's like buying an F-350 when the most you use a car for is getting groceries, or getting the biggest house you can possibly afford even though you're a small family of three, and so on.

    Remember, it's not just the spammers that profit off of people with small penises. Auto manufacturers, TV manufacturers, home builders, and now Intel all profit off of them too. :)

    1. Re:bragging rights by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      Remember, it's not just the spammers that profit off of people with small penises. Auto manufacturers, TV manufacturers, home builders, and now Intel all profit off of them too. :)

      Ha! I don't buy things from any of those people, and my penis is tiny!

  10. Re:Traslation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    On the plus side, this will make the startup of a jvm much faster to make java based applications nearly useable.

    Hey rubycodez; is that funny because Java is almost as slow as ruby?

  11. Re:But... by stonedcat · · Score: 0, Funny

    Why would you waste the processing power running Vista on this beast?

    You'd have about half of your system load working to prevent you from doing anything you actually want to do, a quarter running your software sound since DX is removing hardware sound support, and the rest would be used to make everything look "pretty". At that rate you could probably run solitaire with the remaining cpu cycles.

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  12. Progress by Duncan3 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Another huge technology gain for virgins living in their parents basements worried about their small penis.

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  13. Re:Excessive? by p3d0 · · Score: 3, Funny

    we all know that games generally speaking are the most intensive software ever run on a PC Not even close. Games, after all, run in realtime. So? That's because they are tuned that way. I haven't played this sort of game in a while, but in the day, I remember you could tune the game for your system, and it would take 100% of your CPU, GPU, ALU, FPU, and any other U you wanted to throw at it. How long it runs is entirely irrelevant.
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  14. Not if it is putting out energy in other forms. by pavon · · Score: 4, Funny

    What king-matic didn't tell you is all that extra power is dissipated via X-Rays. It is called Skulltrail after all.

  15. Re:Not the first one at all by GreggBz · · Score: 3, Funny

    So it's as fast as MS-Office. :=p

  16. Re:Excessive? by PitaBred · · Score: 2, Funny

    Get a faster machine. My laptop will transcode from a DVD to H264 at right near real-time (sans ratio changes), and it's nothing terribly special.

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  17. Next, from AMD... by Junior+J.+Junior+III · · Score: 5, Funny

    The AMD Skullfucker-64 5300+ will 0wn this.

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  18. Wasting Time... by drgonzo59 · · Score: 3, Funny
    I'm posting this is because I'm waiting for my PC to solve a big math problem :-)

    You are wasting your time, the answer will always be 42....

  19. Re:Traslation by Sebastopol · · Score: 2, Funny

    power = heat

    if you could make something require 500% more power but convert 200% more energy to heat (ignore photonic emissions), you'd have yourself a nobel prize.

    i'm just sayin.

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