D5400XS

Runs Mac OS X like a Champ... running 10.5.7 Hackintosh. I've build two already, one for work and one for friend. Dropped two Harpertowns in it... all 8 cores burning through audio processing and video rendering. A+++++. Vista and XP both x64 runs...

Pain to get Zalman heatsinks in place; Northbridge gets in the way. Price should come down a hair. Needs more memory slots

Great board, lots of connectors

SLOOOOOOOOW BIOS init at boot time ; ECC RAM = slow, expensive, power-hungry, hot ; takes Xeon procs, but the heatsinks are for NON-xeon procs. Go figure. Major headache ; Two SATA ports don't work

Intel demonstrated Skulltrail at Intel Developer Forum Fall 2007 in San Francisco, USA, and at the Consumer Electronics Show 2008 at Las Vegas ; Skulltrail has a front side bus rate of 400 MHz (1600 MHz QDR), and was demonstrated with two 45 nanometer...

Owners of Skulltrail systems can also make use of up to four ATI graphics cards using ATI CrossFireX technology

Just got a 3rd skulltrial. see my previous post(s) ; RE: "Skulltrail is for gaming among other things ; Dual 771's ; FBram ddr2 (quad channel) ; I clustered 3 of these things together, makes a nice render farm. Good multi thread support

there are 2 FSB's on the north bridge. that means 2 memory buses, each with 4 threads [quad channel memory] (8 total). No desktop card supports this, so why offer SLI or Crossfire? Even if you set it up anyway, you can't use more then 2 of the threads...

None that I can think of? Or should I say the name Skulltrail is a bit intimidating before you actually see the board? Well ok there is one PRO...You get to tell your friends that daddy bought you a mb that actually uses 2 cpu's

Price of course....Lackluster looks and poor performance compared to a high end LGA 1366 mb..Really dont see a need for 2 cpu's...And why didnt intel make this a 775 socket? Guess it was intended to rip-off the dumb rich kids...lol ; The Sli on this...

Reply to ; Skulltrail is for gaming among other things ; Nobody is saying you can't game, it's just a waste of money. I own 2 of these, runs games fine. Hope this helps ; Fully buffered DIMM technology allows up to 21GB/s which is 3 times the bandwidth...

why would anyone need PCIX on this mobo ; THE REASON YOU SHOULD NOT USE THIS FOR GAMING ; this mobo supports SLI and Crossfire, but I don't care how many GAMING cards you install... They will only use 1 memory bus, this mobo has 8. Each core has it's...

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It is literally the best board on the market for its intended purpose

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Absolutely a dream to work with. plenty of room and nothing too obscure or too tight a fit on this board

Not really a con, but it was irritating to find this out after the fact. BUY LGA775 heatsink/fans for your two CPUs. Didn't read too closely on Intel's site before purchasing all my parts. Got it all in the case to find out the default LGA771 HSFs...