Quote Originally Posted by Blauhung View Post
Aside from the fact that I'm not sure that the board will even work with only 1 socket filled, prepare to be underwhelmed. Most likely the overall FSB headroom is going to be lower then just about any of the single socket boards available and you will also be limited by buffered memory.

This board will use more power then most any comparable single socket board and also ad to that the power needs of buffered memory.

So if you don't plan on overclocking and are prepared for higher electricity bills. Then right now this is the only Intel chipset that will run SLI
I'm pretty much used to extreme power consumption rates. Running a Quad PentiumPRO 1MB system as a home server right now ([IBM PC Server 704]).

I'm also running a system consisting of two quad cores and 16GB of FB-FIMM at work, plus a single-CPU quad core with another 2GB of FB-DIMM as a file server with 8 x 500GB RAID-6 and a 8 x 1TB RAID-6 at home. Plus, I'm running a Voodoo5 6000 @ i840 system, so I'm also used to rather exotic system configurations..

I would like to OC the Skulltrail system, but only by around 400-800MHz of core clock rate, that should be possible i guess... I'm not planning any phase change cooling here...

What I need to know is, which of the two sockets on the SkullTrail board is the primary CPU socket, and yep, I would need to know if the thing works with only one CPU...