Intel Skulltrail to get Sli [FUD WARNING]

[naokaji]

http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?op...=3103&Itemid=1

its fud... so not only a pinch of salt but rather a kilo of it is appropriate.. but would be very nice if it would turn out true.

[XeRo]

So what's official spelling Skull Trail or Scull Trail? I guess we will find today if it is true.

[naokaji]

So what's official spelling Skull Trail or Scull Trail? I guess we will find today if it is true.

1 cookie that Skull Trail will be it and not Scull Trail

[Blauhung]

1 cookie that Skull Trail will be it and not Scull Trail

yup, officially it is Skull Trail.

[Shintai]

Yes it will get SLI support...for Quadro cards only

[BulldogPO]

We still need SLI for X38, cos nvidia´s chipsets suck..

[NH|Delph1]

Not this again! It's starting to get ridiculous to be honest.

Intel has a Quadro SLI license for its workstation boards. Skulltrail is in essence such a board, thus it will have SLI support, but only Quadro. I think I've written something like this seven times now. >_<

//Andreas

[virtualrain]

Not this again! It's starting to get ridiculous to be honest.

Intel has a Quadro SLI license for its workstation boards. Skulltrail is in essence such a board, thus it will have SLI support, but only Quadro. I think I've written something like this seven times now. >_<

//Andreas

QFT! No matter how bad people want it, SLI on x38 with standard desktop graphics cards is not going to happen.

In fact, 8 minutes later, FUD wrote this...

Intel wants to see Nvidia suffer
Written by Fuad Abazovic
Tuesday, 18 September 2007 15:33

To teach them some respect

A few people close to Intel have shared the opinion that Nvidia became to arrogant and that it need to learn how to behave.

Intel suffers a lot from lack of X38 SLI support but Nvidia will simply not let them have it. Intel needs that to see its X38 chipsets better but at the same time if Nvidia does this it would mean that it would be a death sentence for the upcoming Nforce 780a chipset.

Even AMD will start public war against Nvidia in 2008 as Nvidia is now seen as the competition and you always want to put the competition in place.

It wont be fun to be Nvidia in 2008.

[Jamesrt2004]

I thought that as well.... but having had my first look at a skulltrail board this weekend, I can tell you that I was WRONG.

Meaning ???

[railer]

there will be hacked drivers to enable SLI on x38 coded by Inlel..lectuals

[virtualrain]

What chipset will SkullTrail be using? Since it's dual socket... unlikely X38.

[Sparky]

Intel wants to see Nvidia suffer

Intel wants to see everybody suffer that doesn't do things their way it seems

[Charles Wirth]

Skulltrail runs SLI, the overclocked demo's here have dual 8800 Ultra's

[iterations]

Intel wants to see everybody suffer that doesn't do things their way it seems

I dunno, I think it just looks that way because they are winning, for the most part.

Intel is a public corporation. They try to maximize profits for their shareholders and produce the very best technology their engineers can muster. Just like nVidia, just like AMD, just like Freescale, just like IBM.

None of these companies are "evil". They are tired of being anthropomorphized, let them rest!

[iterations]

Skulltrail runs SLI, the overclocked demo's here have dual 8800 Ultra's

Well there we go, that is pretty definitive.

Cheers Charles, great work today!

[Wiggy McShades]

Skulltrail runs SLI, the overclocked demo's here have dual 8800 Ultra's

will that be in the retail version? any motherboard can run sli, we just dont have the drivers to. so will those drivers that work with skulltrail be released to the public?

[Sparky]

I dunno, I think it just looks that way because they are winning, for the most part.

Intel is a public corporation. They try to maximize profits for their shareholders and produce the very best technology their engineers can muster. Just like nVidia, just like AMD, just like Freescale, just like IBM.

None of these companies are "evil". They are tired of being anthropomorphized, let them rest!

Not quite. They threatened a few major PC mfr's about even touching AMD CPUs (HP specifically comes to mind). That is what I was referring to.

But this is a bit off topic and we don't need to go through all this all over again.

[Blauhung]

The intel board has some type of nVidia chip on the board that allows it to work. I'm not very familiar with the typical SLI board design so I can't say for sure if that chip is needed for SLI. If that chip is needed then I would say that it's up to the board manufacturers to add the chip. If it's not needed then that's up to nVidia. One things for certain... Intel's Skulltrail board does SLI in it's full form.

from the description i've seen, its a "pci switch" I'm guessing similar to what was used in the 7950GX2.

[strange|ife]

Skulltrail runs SLI, the overclocked demo's here have dual 8800 Ultra's

are you pulling our legs? thats very good news.

did anyone mention drivers in the box for SLYYY

[Blauhung]

That's kinda what I'm thinking... but can't be certain. It would make since though since that "version" of SLI is chipset independent so it shouldn't matter what board it's on. Wonder what the cost of that part is....

$10 silicon, $100 buyoff for nVidia's pockets probably

[Wiggy McShades]

That's kinda what I'm thinking... but can't be certain. It would make since though since that "version" of SLI is chipset independent so it shouldn't matter what board it's on. Wonder what the cost of that part is....

hmmm well in reality i dont think that chip is really needed is it? cause i mean we've had modded sli drivers work before, but either way thanks for the info

[virtualrain]

Skulltrail runs SLI, the overclocked demo's here have dual 8800 Ultra's

It's a step in the right direction for sure... just keep in mind that Skulltrail seems like more of a proof-of-concept than a product with any tangible market size... dual socket, FB-DIMM, Seacrest/Harpertown... not exactly a practical gaming platform.

[gelatinousfury]

It's a step in the right direction for sure... just keep in mind that Skulltrail seems like more of a proof-of-concept than a product with any tangible market size... dual socket, FB-DIMM, Seacrest/Harpertown... not exactly a practical gaming platform.

I definitely don't represent the largest segment of these forums, but it seems that I may have my next workstation build finalized once Skulltrail is released.

I do a lot of CAE and FEA using UGS NX, FEMAP, and NASTRAN. NX would get a nice fps boost with SLI while FEMAP and NASTRAN would benefit nicely from the extra cpu power. Hmmm....dual quad-core cpu's, 2x Quadros (or GeForce) in SLI, 8GB of ram (XP 64-bit), and a lot of engineering apps that run quickly and smoothly all add up to one XtremeWorkstation

Edit: Not to mention a very kickass folding rig when not in use

[Cooper]

$10 silicon, $100 buyoff for nVidia's pockets probably

Of course not in such ratio, but I would not be surprised if Intel actually payed NVidia for SLI support. Of course it's just my assumption, considering previous Intel's practice and facts.

[Movieman]

It's a step in the right direction for sure... just keep in mind that Skulltrail seems like more of a proof-of-concept than a product with any tangible market size... dual socket, FB-DIMM, Seacrest/Harpertown... not exactly a practical gaming platform.

No, but it will fit in nicely at my house and I don't even need the second vid card..

I definitely don't represent the largest segment of these forums, but it seems that I may have my next workstation build finalized once Skulltrail is released.

I do a lot of CAE and FEA using UGS NX, FEMAP, and NASTRAN. NX would get a nice fps boost with SLI while FEMAP and NASTRAN would benefit nicely from the extra cpu power. Hmmm....dual quad-core cpu's, 2x Quadros (or GeForce) in SLI, 8GB of ram (XP 64-bit), and a lot of engineering apps that run quickly and smoothly all add up to one XtremeWorkstation

Edit: Not to mention a very kickass folding rig when not in use

Now this is my kind of guy! Welcome friend!