Intel Developer Forums is well under way and among some of its more hardcore demonstrations Fugger from Xtremesystems was there to overclock an Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9650 (more on that later). Intel also had a working system based on its coming Skulltrail platform. Skulltrail sports dual sockets, 4 PCIe 16x lanes thanks to the Seaburg chipset and some sort of SLI support. Intel does have Quadro SLI with its workstation boards, but for this demo NVIDIA had assisted Intel and they had two GeForce 8800 Ultras running on the Skulltrail platform. As of today, this is not something you should expect to work with retail boards.
Intel has said that there will be Skulltrail motherboards that will also feature NVIDIA MCPs together with the Seaburg chipset, and these boards may be a different story. Skulltrail is slated for release later this year.
[Editor’s note: The chipset is Seaburg, not X38]
