Intel Launches 8-core Skulltrail Enthusiast Platform

Santa Clara (CA) - Skulltrail is about as useful to the average PC user as a Ferrari in your daily commute. But, of course, if you have the money to spare, the dual-socket board with two 3.2 GHz processors rewards you with supercar-like bragging rights.

We have been talking about Skulltrail for more than a year and today the platform finally launched. It delivers on Intel's promise to be an innovation showcase that caters to the "ultimate enthusiast". It is about as extreme as consumer hardware can get these days.

Obviously, price shouldn't be an object for anyone considering a Skulltrail system. The D5400XS board is priced at $650, while the QX9775 CPU carries a price tag of $1500 (each). Falcon Northwest was among the first to be offering a Skulltrail system to its customers with a starting price of $10,034.57. The package includes a 1000 watt power supply, 4 GB of memory, two GeForce 8800 Ultra graphics cards, two 1 TB hard drives as well as a DVD burner and Windows Vista Ultimate (64-bit). A fully configured Skulltrail system tops out at just under $17,000.

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