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On the specifications, it says, "Supports up to 16GB system RAM", and only has 4 RAM slots. I guess the Mac Pro still wins.

 

However, 2 x CPU sockets and 4 x PCI express x16 slots are cool! I would love to have one of those. I wonder if it would work with OSx86, however.

Wrenbird, 3D rendering, massive compile jobs, scientific simulations, etc. Or just play 8 different games at once.

Anyone else notice that the Chipset cooler looks like a GPU cooler?

 

i don't know, seems like overkill to me :)

 

yeah i noticed it looks like a gpu cooler, also noticed that huge cards aren't going to play nice with it.

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If you look at the specs of Skulltrail they look very similar to that of Apple's second generation Mac Pro. While the old V8 platform wasn't exactly well received by the enthusiast community, many working on custom PCs running OS X used V8 to build their own Hackintosh Mac Pro. We were hoping that Skulltrail would make for an equally good starting point for a Hackintosh.

 

While the latest OSx86 releases will install on the D5400XS with some effort, we couldn't get beyond a kernel panic upon booting into Leopard. We suspect that the NVIDIA MCPs are at fault as they are in-line with the PCIe x16 slots and can't be disabled.

 

As the OSx86 community already has Leopard working on AMD platforms, we tend to believe that some clever work may be able to make Skulltrail the ideal Hackintosh Pro platform but out of the box it doesn't work.

 

- AnandTech

 

http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/intel...?i=3216&p=5

rosetta@home :P or 8 threads of yes > /dev/null

 

It is much easier to max it out by rendering a 3D scene.

 

I've done it before, and it just goes all maxxed out for a few hours. So maxxed out that you can't even see any fluctuations in the graph.

 

I wish I had an 8 core computer.

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