Intel’s Skull Canyon Mystery PC Confirmed And Detailed

[scolaner]

The rumored Intel "Skull Canyon" PC is real, and we saw it at CES 2016. It's 4 x 8 inches, designed for gaming, and sports some impressive internals.

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[jk8860]

does using a skull on the case qualify this as hip, cool, or edgy? Someone needs to reign in the lightweights in the marketing department

 

[spartanmk2]

Remove the skull design and then you're good.

 

[big_tiger]

There are two kinds of people interested in this:
1. "Did you hear about Intel's new Skull Canyon PC? It is tiny and powerfull!"
2. "Did you see Intel's Skull Canyon PC logo? It really brings out the inner bad ass in your fragging... " (I am not hip enough on the current COD jargon finish) 😉

 

[santiagoanders]

does using a skull on the case qualify this as hip, cool, or edgy? Someone needs to reign in the lightweights in the marketing department

All hail king of the marketing lightweights! He reigns in majesty over all logo making!

 

[Ilya__]

The Skull logo is so 1998 😀

 

[hdmark]

finally! a pc that my mother doesn't approve of!

 

[TechyInAZ]

Get rid of that skulll!! I thought devils canyon was enough, but know skull canyon?? Nonono! lol.

 

[stoned_ritual]

The have the skull logo on most of their Extreme series hardware. Do any of you have eyeballs?

 

[BadActor]

Kewl!

 

[TechyInAZ]

The have the skull logo on most of their Extreme series hardware. Do any of you have eyeballs?

Well at least you can hide the skull. When it's on the top of a PC, it's a bit hard to hide.

Plus I don't know a lot of people who like the skull anyways. It looks strange.

 

[Wisecracker]

Bob and Jerry (may he RIP) called and offered a free Stealie album with each purchase . . .

 

[zhunt99]

Someone better cracks heads at the marketing department and get rid of the skull

 

[scolaner]

Hah, no worries folks--I neglected to mention in the article that you don't HAVE to have the skull logo. That's just what was on the unit we saw.

There will be multiple options for top covers, and you'll actually be able to 3D print your own if you want.

 

[geok1ng]

skulltrail was the first dual socket overclokable plataform for Intel. EVGA build the SR2 for overclocking dual Xeons 1366. It is offensive to the Skulltrail logo to use it on a SFF system with integrated graphics.

 

[Skunkwerx_6_Actual]

If it's painted Black it could be "Tactical". Add vile Neon Pink and Green go fast stripes it can be marketed as "Extreme". Then COD players will go nuts and scream "TAKE MY MONEY!"

 

[DrakeFS]

Get rid of that skulll!! I thought devils canyon was enough, but know skull canyon?? Nonono! lol.

That ha been the enthusiast branding for years now.

 

[Guest]

I like the skull, so reading these negative comments makes me sad 🙁

 

[MKeist]

Get rid of that skulll!! I thought devils canyon was enough, but know skull canyon?? Nonono! lol.

That ha been the enthusiast branding for years now.

what part of this is enthusiast tho

 

[blazorthon]

skulltrail was the first dual socket overclokable plataform for Intel. EVGA build the SR2 for overclocking dual Xeons 1366. It is offensive to the Skulltrail logo to use it on a SFF system with integrated graphics.

That's exactly what I was thinking. I don't think there has been a single overclocking dual socket platform since the SR2 for Nehalem and Westmere.

 

[vaughn2k]

That skull will sell on people watching adventure time. It looks like a digital image of Jake with a beard.. No kidding..

 

[BrushyBill]

The skull logo has been a part of Intel for quite a while. Amazing how many people don't seem to realize this.

 

[mlee 2500]

They should let me hold the keys. I'm pretty trustworthy.

Think that's funny? Well, consider that a yellow post-it in your top desk drawer is probably less likely to be compromised or abused than any privacy we concede to the government.

 

[true_candle]

This PC is BS. It is just a marketing move from Intel, not to lose PC gaming market share to an AMD that came up with it's Quantum PC. Simple product overshadowing (exactly what nVidia has done by lowering prices on their GTX top GPUs at exact same time when AMD released new GPUs based on HBM technology "Fury cards and Nano").
We all know, this this box of matches wouldn't do the job of normal gaming PC. Every gaming design has the main part, which is the GPU. Only nVidia and AMD makes competitive GPUs. Even if Intel partner up with nVidia, there's not gonna be any game changing situation. AMD leads in this game for now.

 

[Iordan_1]

i would hardly call a 45W cpu "gaming friendly"