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When it comes to performance the Intel Skulltrail platform is han ds down the fastest platform that we have ever looked at. With the dual 3 .2GHz Core 2 Extreme QX9775 quad-core processors in the system it consist ently outperformed the other test systems in multi-threaded tests that co uld take advantage of the eight cores. The only two areas that the Skullt rail platform didnt shine was in memory bandwidth and gaming. The DDR2-8 00 FB-DIMMs just dont provide the memory bandwidth needed to compete wit h DDR3 memory kits and it shows where memory bandwidth does come into pla y. When it comes to gaming its not the fact the board is only PCI Expres s 1.0, it is because the games are not optimized to run on eight cores. I n reality many games are designed to run on just three cores as many game s are now written with consoles in mind...
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