Intel will soon unveil a version of its Nehalem platform for hardcore gamers Skulltrail, according to the German online magazine Aktuell Hardware, which it believes could be available early in the year 2009. Like its predecessors, the new Skulltrail bear two quad-core processors for a total of eight cores, and systems in several graphics cards from AMD and Nvidia.
While the first version of the platform performance was actually an adaptation general public components of servers and workstations, this new version will use well the X58 chipset. The side of the multi GPU Nvidia, the nForce 200 SLI chip does not appear to have been chosen, a bridge software would be used.
However, the X58 chipset natively supports 24 GB of RAM DDR3 in tri-channel and potentially SLI, Skulltrail will have to stand out with other sources that the bi-socket, because as we have seen in the first tests of Core i7, games do not really benefit from the multi-core. It is not excluded that the platform becomes more affordable, a motherboard Skulltrail trading today around 550 euros, plus the price of processors and graphics cards.
However, many information could be unveiled in two weeks at the Intel Developer Forum Taipei conference in which the first Skulltrail platform was presented last year.
Skulltrail motherboard of the first generation, Intel D5400XS
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