Intel's Skulltrail platform, SLI on an Intel motherboard!

Posted By: Steve McBarnes - 02:31:53 Wed, September 19, 2007

The Intel Developer Forum (IDF) is currently happening in San Fransisco right now and some cool stuff is being shown. One of which is Intel's Skulltrail platform which will feature official SLIness from Nvidia. This is just a one time deal for now and Nvidia has not licensed SLI to any of Intel's chipsets. Instead Nvidia has given Intel permission to use SLI on this specific motherboard because Nvidia does not currently offer a motherboard with 2 CPU sockets.

Here is picture from PC Perspective and a link to three pics over at [H]ard|OCP.

PC Perspective Skulltrail pic

PC Perspective also has some good info PCI Express 3.0 and USB 3.0 as well.

UPDATE:

HotHardware is saying that Intel and maybe some of their partners may use a nForce MCP on some of the X38 (like Skulltrail) based motherboards.

3 Comments

Wednesday, September 19, 2007 5:37:42 PM

anonymousD
n00b

quad 16x lanes? :)

Thursday, September 20, 2007 2:26:46 AM

anonymous
guest

Oh man That seems like an extremely raw system. Now if I could get my hands on one of those babies? :p

Thursday, September 20, 2007 9:07:58 AM

Wow, steve. Good Job. I was trying to figure out if nVidia would license SLi for all other X38 motherboards. In any case, this is apperently an X38 (SPP) and 680i (MCP), which allows the use of SLi. Now all we need to figure out is when we can get it.

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