Gigabyte X38-DQ6

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Here official characteristics of this X38 which will be available about semi September in your retailers in 2 versions: DDR2 and DDR3 (X38-DQ6 & X38T-DQ6)

For the price, it would seem to be in the prices of the current P35-DQ6 is between 210€ and 240€ including all taxes public price (Price French)


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X38T-DQ6.jpg


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Just need to wait and see what the benches are like when they become available ( the real ones not some cherry picked ones)
 
Well I was planning on buying one of these to replace my crap motherboard which was the Abit Fatal1ty FP-IN9 650 until OCuK replaced it with the one in my sig which I'm happy with it so not sure now, probably save up for the G92.
 
is there any info on how well the x38 boards are gonna clock? compared to p35 boards? Hopefully wont be another 965 and 975 situation where the cheaper boards seriously outclock the expensive ones :p
 
Looks good, I was about to buy a gigabyte p35 for my new build in the next month or so, so its great timing.

wonder if it will take the thermalright u120 ive already purcased? that heatsink near the socket looks quite tall :eek:

Anyone know if they will have a model in the rage that supports ddr2+3 like they have in the p35 range?
 
SpudMaster said:
is there any info on how well the x38 boards are gonna clock? compared to p35 boards? Hopefully wont be another 965 and 975 situation where the cheaper boards seriously outclock the expensive ones :p
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Apparently they are going to be better for overclocking than P35 boards.
 
wuyanxu said:
the coolers seems to be a bit underpowered......... hope X38 isn't too hot
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It looks the same as the one Gigabyte uses for the web site photos of the P35-DS4 and DQ6. As we know, the production cooler is much larger and I expect the same will be true for the X38 boards.
 
gary996 said:
You would have thought that the chipset would have implemented IEEE 1394b
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Add-on features like USB and Firewire are not usually part of the main chipset. They come on add-in chips from NEC or Texas Instruments.

If Gigabyte haven't implemented it, it's likely they ran out of some system resources somewhere - possibly PCIe lanes judging by the graphics card layout.
 
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Azza said:
Apparently they are going to be better for overclocking than P35 boards.
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How? Higher FSBs? More stable voltage rails? My guess is they will have more features than P35, and run a smidgen faster, but overclocking was already CPU limited with P965, let alone P35. They look like all top-end products: poor value.
 
True, but how much of a selling point will the PCI-e 2.0 be?

It will be better suited for the nvidia 9xxxx cards, assuming these will be PCI-e 2.0

Which brings two points to mind...

1.Will pci-e 2.0 bring any real benefits compared to say a system running an 8800GTX?

2.Software developers can barely keep up with the recent onslaught of DX10, multi-threaded games for quads and nvidias current high end cards, so is there any point in investing, certainly not for at least 12 months?

think I might just stick with a p35.

edit: I think that hardware in general is by far outpacing the software, developers need time to utilise it so its a very difficult time to buy high end hardware at the moment.
 
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