Leaked: A X38 DDR2 mobo possibly under £100 (inc VAT)

kenofstephen said:
how about heatsink on SouthBridge and heatpipe on Northbridge and mosfets? sounds better?
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Sure does.

Many people find it a bit of a hassle if you want to watercool the NB and have to take off the SB block aswell and either watercool that or find a cooling block that fits it, including me.


Whats the small thing on the back I/O next to the optical/coaxial sound? Is it E-SATA port or HDMI?
 
Azza said:
Sure does.

Many people find it a bit of a hassle if you want to watercool the NB and have to take off the SB block aswell and either watercool that or find a cooling block that fits it, including me.


Whats the small thing on the back I/O next to the optical/coaxial sound? Is it E-SATA port or HDMI?
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Dual eSATA, J-Micron.
 
Yeah heatpipe between NB and mosfets would be nice, and a separate HS on the SB, all copper. I don't think the SB gets that hot anyway unless you're running a ton of peripheral devices, does it?

Also I count 1 CPU fan header and 2 chassis headers, that's enough for me IMO. Don't really need more fans than that in a standard system; besides, if you need more you'd probably be buying something like an ASUS Maximus anyway to warrant the need for that much cooling ;)
 
As long as the board is stable, has a decent bios to allow good control for overclocking then I don't see a problem with getting that for £100 :) X38 board prices are insane at the moment, it really is stupid if you want people to actually buy the boards, other than enthuthiasts (which is where the vast majority of the money isn't).

Matthew
 
Skyboat said:
Buy a better board then
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Precisely, cheapest X38 board on OcUK is the Gigabyte DS4 for about £140. And it looks like it has a very similar feature set to this board, six phase power, 6 SATA slots, same number of chokes, 3 fan headers.

If you want better you'll have to pay significantly more for it.

Jokester
 
4-phase power can be strong enough if the quality is there, i wouldn't automatically assume this board will hold a quad @ 4ghz because it's 6-phase.

ok this board will be ~100 pounds which is nice for those on a budget but X38 is targetted toward crossfire users anyway, P35 is a great chipset for those on single cards, and since when do multiple gpu peeps care about price?

another 50quid for a guaranteed good clocker doesn't seem unreasonable to me, well i never try and skimp on mb or psu. :p
 
With any luck X38 will prove to be a better Penryn clocker than P35.

If it does, and this board proves to be a good deal, then it may well be a success.

We just have to wait for Penryn :(
 
Cob said:
With any luck X38 will prove to be a better Penryn clocker than P35.

If it does, and this board proves to be a good deal, then it may well be a success.

We just have to wait for Penryn :(
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Think they overclock about the same, though I haven't checked the same chip on both chipsets, reached 465MHz on P35 with one chip and about 470 on X38 (I'll need to test fully but I don't think it's more than 475MHz).
 
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