The primary difference between Skulltrail and Intel's current and past enthusiast chipsets is a dual CPU socket design that allows two processors to operate on the same motherboard.
Although found to be an extremely powerful computing platform, Skulltrail was criticized by media outlets for being "ahead of its time".
This is in part due to the lack of support for multi-core computing with almost all popular game engines at the time, in addition to the extremely high price of the components involved.
[1][2][3] although this limitation can be mitigated by purchasing specially designed Kingston HyperX FB-DIMMS that have a lower latency than generic FB-DIMMs[4] The base Skulltrail platform consists of an Intel D5400XS mainboard which cost upwards of US$600 when it hit the market as a standalone part.
However, Atomic reported that they could accommodate cheaper Xeon server microprocessors that fit in the LGA-771 socket, which was corroborated by Intel's official processor support list.