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662015 2008-04-24 01:48:00 Check this out (www.nzherald.co.nz)

If you can afford it, (or if you own the power company), this supports dual QUAD core (LGA 771 not LGA 775), so up to 8 CPU cores

But be prepared to pay around $1150 just for the mobo.

The ram is also different to normal DDR ram, so will cost a lot more

And it may need a 1200 W PSU :cool:
Speedy Gonzales (78)
662016 2008-04-24 02:10:00 Yeah LGA771 is going to be the new server based socket for Xeon processors.

Complete waste of money.

LGA715 is going to be the new desktop socket for people wondering :)
Best thing about it is it will be incorporating on-die memory controllers much like AMD has since Athlon days.
trinsic (6945)
662017 2008-04-24 02:13:00 Wow, what OS do you use on this monster to make use of all that super sexy hardware? O_O On a side note, what an awesome CPU score. Thats more than my entire system :( But isn't the 3dmark '06 score (~17k) a little low for a system like that? I suppose the reviewer like most of us, just didn't have a few identical graphics cards lying around. Deathwish (143)
662018 2008-04-24 02:30:00 Wow, what OS do you use on this monster to make use of all that super sexy hardware?

Linux :D
Erayd (23)
662019 2008-04-24 02:44:00 Linux :D

Fantastic. You have an OS which can take advantage of the hardware, but isn't capable of handling the latest games.

I suppose you could use it for 3D movie effects rendering though...
somebody (208)
662020 2008-04-24 02:46:00 Wow.

:drool :drool :drool :drool :drool
wratterus (105)
662021 2008-04-24 02:47:00 ""Firing up a borrowed copy of Crysis, the latest and greatest first-person PC shooter which is notorious for bringing even the most powerful PCs to their knees, the Skulltrail barely broke a sweat as I blasted my way through the games first levels.""


What a load of drivel, seems like this article was written by the PR department at Intel.
Battleneter2 (9361)
662022 2008-04-24 02:56:00 Did they mention what settings they were using? was it maximum everything including resolution? probably wasn't...

Speaking of high priced hardware, a friend of mine was talking about getting a laptop that he could play games on fairly well.

He had been looking at a dell, which was about $1900 with a geforce 8600M GT.

I decided to look at alienware to see what they had (always heard they had fast stuff)

They had a laptop almost identical to the Dell, with 1GB less ram and 80GB hdd instead of 320GB, and was about $4000.

I know which one I would buy...
Agent_24 (57)
662023 2008-04-24 02:57:00 FOUR high-end graphics cards at least! :eek:

WHY?

But the mb only supports a max of 8GB RAM (that's only 1GB per core!)

Would've thought at least 16 :lol:
jwil1 (65)
662024 2008-04-24 03:02:00 FOUR high-end graphics cards at least! :eek:

WHY?

But the mb only supports a max of 8GB RAM (that's only 1GB per core!)

Would've thought at least 16 :lol:

I wouldn't mind 4 high end graphics cards... :D
Agent_24 (57)
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