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Monday, April 7, 2008

Intel's Skulltrail: $2,800 for the CPUs Alone?!

By Mark Hachman April 7, 2008

Based upon the price of the new QX9775 processor, the bones littering Intel's "Skulltrail" platform will be the dessicated corpses of enthusiasts' wallets. As predicted six months ago by Taiwan's DigiTimes, the QX9775 processor (a 45-nm processor running at 3.2 GHz with 12 Mbytes of cache and a 1.6-GHz front-side bus) is priced at $1,499, according to Intel's official price list. Yes, just for the processor alone. The QX9775 is a Socket 771 processor; the QX9770 is essentially identical, but designed in the common Socket 775 pinout, The QX9770 is priced at $1,399.

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