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Intel in the GHz Game Again - Skulltrail Hits 5 GHz
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."
It might.
But you're going to need four of these plus a 1 terabyte hard drive plus 100 gigs of memory to run VISTA service pack 2.
Get used to it...
Strides are being made, but know massive breakthroughs.
But HOW do I know them?
and will suffer a major component failure in 20% of the time. On the plus side, this will make the startup of a jvm much faster to make java based applications nearly useable.