Gigabyte GA-EX38-DS5

kiteloopy · 7 Dec 2008 at 19:46

I was thinking of ordering one of these. Ive done a search on here and very little came up, and google didnt say much either.

Ive just come off a 680i mobo as im normally a nvidia fan, but im moving onto 4850's and intel chips as i fancy a change.

anyone care to shed some light on it? / what should i expect?

reflux · 7 Dec 2008 at 19:47

I had an X38-DS4 which is identical, just with a different heatsink....rather solid board, good features, pretty good overclocker. BIOS is a little confusing though.

kiteloopy · 7 Dec 2008 at 20:19

i was pretty impressed with 8usb's on the back.

sounds like you recommend it then reflux? its £85 in the B grade.

RJC · 7 Dec 2008 at 21:56

Running one in my system at the moment, running at 8600 @ 4.4ghz with a GTX 8800 so far been quite impressed, only thing I dislike I had trouble controling my fans which the my old board (Abit IP35 Pro) done quite well.

I was tempted to buy one of the B grade boards.

reflux · 8 Dec 2008 at 13:11

kiteloopy said:
i was pretty impressed with 8usb's on the back.

sounds like you recommend it then reflux? its £85 in the B grade.

Yeah, go for it, although obviously be aware that it's b-grade so the warranty might be non-existent and you might get f'all in the box/no box at all

RJC · 8 Dec 2008 at 16:53

I think it's end of line - as there is no B grade in the description - not sure if that means anything

Shaolin_K · 8 Dec 2008 at 21:45

RJC said:
I think it's end of line - as there is no B grade in the description - not sure if that means anything

can anybody clarify this point?

i did notice these about a week ago, I think there were 9 or 10 units - now just 4

are these end of line, but new products?

RaiderX · 8 Dec 2008 at 23:26

it looks like its on offer/clearance, definitelly not bgrade

kiteloopy · 9 Dec 2008 at 02:59

RaiderX said:
it looks like its on offer/clearance, definitelly not bgrade

well, i found it under B grade. I hope its clearance...... extras :eek:

thanks all for the help. Its ordered and should be at home....when i get home.

ill post what i think when every things running, assuming there's some left.

Reality|Bites · 9 Dec 2008 at 13:33

Yeah that's one thing I miss about my 680i board. With it you could control each 3 pin fan header individually, With the Gigabyte X38/X48 you only have the option of controlling the fans with 2 options which are Voltage or PWM. The option applies to all headers so you can't have one fan running 12v and the other running 5v

Shaolin Chicken · 10 Dec 2008 at 18:21

kiteloopy said:
well, i found it under B grade. I hope its clearance...... extras

thanks all for the help. Its ordered and should be at home....when i get home.

ill post what i think when every things running, assuming there's some left.

Any update?

Was it clearance or b grade?

kiteloopy · 11 Dec 2008 at 22:56

It was clearance, so got everything.

still gonna be a few days until my systems up and running. need a new psu.

Shaolin Chicken · 12 Dec 2008 at 02:39

Thanks for the update,
good luck with your build, when your power supply arrives

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