Intel SkullTrail review round up and high-lights
Techreport：
“Skulltrail is a niche product, and it’s not one I care particularly about, but these shenanigans make me angrier than anything I’ve seen from this industry in a good while. This is the kind of crap that makes folks give up on PC gaming and go buy an Xbox. I don’t believe for a minute that this is about anything other than vindictiveness. I’ve heard credible rumors that Nvidia has seeded some PC makers with three-way SLI drivers that work perfectly on Skulltrail. I’ve also heard whispers that Intel is paying as much as $100 per motherboard for those nForce 100 chips. Yet Nvidia is still locking them out. Sheesh.
On the bright side, Skulltrail ought to work fine with AMD’s CrossFire X when it arrives—even though, heh, the D5400XS’s PCIe x16 slots are driven by Nvidia silicon. Imagine that.”
HotHardware:
“Another aspect of Skulltrail that will surely turn off some of you is its price. Intel hasn’t disclosed solid figures just yet, but they have said that the QX9775 processors will be priced higher than current “Extreme” edition processors and the motherboard will be somewhat more expensive than the company’s current high-end workstation class offerings. That puts each CPU somewhere north of a grand a piece and the mobo in the $600+ range. Factor in a couple of gigs of DDR2-800 FB-DIMMs and you’re talking about roughly $3000 for the configuration we tested here. Cheap? Heck no. Extreme Powerful? You betcha.”
HardOCP:
“Well nothing is perfect and though I hate the use of FB-DIMMs and while I think they limit the memory performance of the platform, they do offer great stability. These modules are getting less expensive and some of the DDR2 667MHz FB-DIMMs are even almost “cheap.” Again I wouldn’t go with less than 800MHz parts, but the use of FB-DIMMs and the cost associated with them shouldn’t be an issue for someone who can afford the board and CPUs to go with them.”