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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. 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. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. Stable by raddan · · Score: 4, Funny

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

  7. 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. :)

  8. 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.

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

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

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