Quote Originally Posted by Movieman View Post
Why would I buy it, if I had the funds to do so:
1) I like dual socket machines and this is really the first dualie with all the options in BIOS to get the most out of the cpu's.
I also generally find that dual socket boards are built better( more stable) than single sockets.
2) I do DC work, aids, cancer, etc..
The "faster" the machine the more work it can do and hopefully shorten the time until the cures are found for these diseases to give my kids and yours to come a better healthier life.
3) And last: Still a little kid in me that has some fun with a few of the benchmarks.
I've spent maybe 12-20 hours in the past year running benches, mostly Cinebench and wPrime. The rest of the time the machines work at 100% load 24/7 doing research.
I have nothing to say against that, except that you are excluded from the group of average enthusiasts. You strive to find multi core, and this is one of the only platforms out today that gives you 8 cores, together with a clovertown platform, which you already have. And I am sure you can testify that a clovertown platform, when you add it up, isn't much cheaper than skulltrail after all. well maybe the cpus might be a bit cheaper, but thats all.

but lets be honest. take a sample of 100 enthusiasts on XS. how many people have a clovertown system, and how many people have a heavily OCed E6850 or Q6600... the whole point of my argument was market penetration and value for your money, and you as well as other people, misinterpreted this from the very begging. read my first post one more time movieman.


Quote Originally Posted by Tonucci View Post
5 big rants about skulltrail sounds like you just hate it. Is it because it blows your rig away ? Just my guess, given your age. When you look close, your logic is flawed.

There are tons of stuff with "terrible" value that people buy because they CAN and WANT. To rich people, the satisfaction means alot more than just money. What are they suppose to do ? Save eternally ?

If you dont like extreme stuff, that costs an arm and a leg, your should think about going back to AnandTech. Earlier you said that people come here looking for the best bang for their buck. Wrong....This is XTREME SYSTEMS.
you couldn't be more wrong my friend. I have started the same kind of discussions against FANS8 or QuadFX, whatever you want to call it, when it clearly doesn't outperform my system.

I agree with you that there are tons of stuff with terrible value that people buy, and all I am doing is pointing out that this is one of them. Thats all, no need to get defensive.