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.

(more…)