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There is good news for gamers and graphics professionals across the world. A dual- socket motherboard was launched by Intel specifically for the PC manufacturers who intend to facilitate the customers with gaming and graphics choices. Such manufacturers can now configure new machines with two quad-core processors and multiple graphics cards on a single motherboard.

“Skulltrail”, that was the code name given to this ‘Dual Socket Extreme Desktop Platform’ by Intel. The company took an advantage of the occasion of ‘Game Developers Conference’ in San Francisco and released this platform on Tuesday.

It consists of one Desktop board D5400XS along with two ‘Core 2 Extreme QX9775’ processors. This platform can also support ‘Crossfire’ of ATI and the ‘SLI graphics cards’ of Nvidia. Intel’s arch rivals ‘Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) owns the ATI.

Desktop PC gamers will be the most beneficiaries of this platform along with the game developers and graphics experts. Various other professional like 3-D animators, digital audio artists, high –definition audio and video editors, and other professionals who prepare and design video games for consoles and desktops would also be able to derive many advantages from this platform.

Market experts estimate that the demand for high-definition video encoding and editing with the desktop PC would grow tremendously in near future. They also expect a spurt in the demand of higher adoption of HD content within the consumer markets.
With the demise of war between Sony supported ‘Blue-ray discs’ and Toshiba’s HD DVD, the market will face further changes. End of this ‘format war’ will make HD movies and games more popular among the consumers, market analysts say. Retailers and studios along with other vendors in the markets would be focusing more on the applications based on Blue-ray technology.

A 12 MB of L2 cache, a 1,600-MZ system bus, and four cores that are running at 3.2 GHz would be the basic ingredients of this ‘Core 2 Extreme WX 9775 Processors’. For Professionals and more enthusiastic consumers who need enhanced speed factors, Intel has removed the pre-existing ‘bus-ratio locks’ of the processors. This will facilitate them with higher ratcheted clock speed as per their own requirements.

Intel has tagged this ‘Core 2 Extreme WX 9775 Processors’ platform with price of $1,499. At the same time the price estimates for the ‘Desktop Board D5400XS’ could be around $649. Components of this platform would be sold separately with individual price tags.

Various PC manufacturers are now making plans to include this platform with their systems. Some of the popular systems include Boxx Tech, Amari, Digital Storm, Falcon Northwest, Puget Systems, Maingear, Scan, Velocity Micro, Vigor Gaming, and Voodoo.

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