Intel today announced “V8″ system, a “proof-of-concept PC designed specifically to counter AMD’s 4×4 platform for gamers,” Daily Tech reports. At CES 2007 Intel demonstrated a system running on a pair of quad-core Kentsfield Xeon processors for a total of eight physical cores.
The V8 runs at 2.4GHz utilizing a 1066MHz system bus and is loaded with FB-DIMM memory. The graphics card is supported by a single NVIDIA 8800GTX. Intel claims the “V8″ system achived a score of 6089 on 3DMark CPU bench.
But, Intel’s “V8″ system will require FB-DIMMs while Quad FX will work with regular unbuffered memory. The AMD Quad FX platform can also support multiple GeForce video cards in SLI configuration, while the “V8″ is currently limited to a single graphics card, according to the report.
