Intel SkullTrail Super High End PC Platform Review

CPU by massman @ 2008-03-11

How do you define the ultimate gaming system? Is it the best price/performance system or just the system with the most power, regardless of the cost? Intel´s answer goes by the name of SkullTrail, which gives you the opportunity of using two high-end processors and two high-end video cards in one system. Today we´ll take a look at what Intel is offering in terms of performance compared to a regular high-end system.

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Test setup and methodology

Test setup

Test Setups


CPU
  • 2 x QX9775
  • QX9650
  • Cooling
  • 2 x Scythe Mugen
  • Stock Aluminum Intel Heatsink
  • Mainboard
  • Intel D5400XS
  • Asus Formula Striker II
  • Memory
  • 2 * 1GB Mushkin FB-Dimm
  • 2 x 1GB TeamGroup DDR2
  • Other
  • 2 x Asus 8800GTS (FW 169.21)
  • 2 x Asus HD3870 (Catalyst 8.2)
  • Enermax Galaxy 1KW
  • 2 x Tagan 480W PSU
  • Western Digital 320Gb SATA HDD
  • Windows Vista Ultimate


  • Methodology

    To compare both setups, we used the following benchmarks:
  • 3DMark03
  • 3DMark05
  • 3DMark05
  • Quake 4 (1152x864 ; 1280x1025 | 16x8x ; 8x4x)
  • Crysis (1280x1024 ; 1600x1200 | 16x8x ; 8x4x)
  • Cinebench 10

    For Crysis, we used the Crysis benchmark tool (here). For Quake4 we used a custom demo. More details on the Gaming performance page.
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    Comment from jmke @ 2008/03/12
    If you liked our test, please share
    http://digg.com/hardware/Intel_Skull...latform_Review
    Comment from Liquid3D @ 2008/03/14
    I did

     

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