Source: Tom's Hardware UK – Keywords: Skulltrail, QX9775, D5400XS, Octo-Core
Categories: Hardware
Energy Cost – €248 at 8 Hours a Day
If you’re considering investing in a Skulltrail system, we suggest you make sure you have some financial reserves to cover your power bill. Keeping the system running for eight hours a day will cost you €248 over the course of a year. To give you a reference point, the single-socket system will only set you back by €147.
Overclocking doesn’t help either, driving up your bill to €328. If you put together a quad-SLI configuration, the energy cost would be so high that you could buy a new high-end graphics card for the same price – every year!.
Were the system to be left running around the clock, the energy bill would rise to a nearly incomprehensible €744.
Due to the broken Speed Step feature on our review board, the cost of operation when idle is about €68 a year higher than the fastest single-socket quad-core processor. It gets worse – the gap practically doubles when the Skulltrail is overclocked.
Over the course of a year, the system would cost €486 if left idling 24/7.
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but if you have that much money in the first place... they won't shiv a git about their energy costs
page 14 - two copies of same "Power Consumption 100% Load" graph = boob??!!
Spuddyt you're wrong!!
Anyone buying this board will have problems paying off those maxed out credit cards when their power bill comes in!! (Well we are talking enthusiasts right??)
Bob
I bet the lack of memory speed settings is more than just a beta issue... Intel will use it as a means of preventing ludicrous levels of Xeon overclocking and force anyone crazy enough to buy SkullTrail back onto the crack... er, I mean back to EEs, with their unlocked multiplier, relatively poor overclockability and 500% price premium. Per CPU.
I want this board. Put 2x xenons in there for $250 a piece and get a true 8core system for $1000..
Anyone know where we can buy it in the US ?
see the super gamer at extreme tech.