Final update: JW-X48D2 EXTREME

Shaolin Chicken said:
Good point.
I agree it's too expensive, to be competitive it needs to cost less than all the other x48 motherboards.
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agree with you to certain extent,
from the performance point of view, Gxxxxxxx should be the cheapest.

but here I do not, and I should not comment on the OcUK pricing strategy,
I believe they will see the comments from you guys and have corresponding responses. :)
 
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Banny said:
So these boards will be capable of 500 FSB with the news quads then, I have P5E now and it wont go much over 460.
Would be into buying something that will do the 500FSB. even if it is £160
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yes, it is one of the very few boards that can do 500+ FSB with 45nm quad. ;)
should be a good match with Q9300, which has only 7.5x multiplier.
 
kenofstephen said:
agree with you to certain extent,
from the performance point of view, Gxxxxxxx should be the cheapest.

but here I do not, and I should not comment on the OcUK pricing strategy,
I believe they will see the comments from you guys and have corresponding responses. :)
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The only likely response will be to delete the thread or posts. That's the usual way on here.

It is far too expensive though. Head to head with the DFI LT which has a longer warranty and free delivery from elsewhere. I know which i would go for.
 
Any news on this board?

Got an upgrade coming soon, i need to know whats happening, any info would be appreciated.
 
I'm sure they'll be here soon enough. I have all the other X48 DDR2 boards, and I'm hoping this one will be the same performance as the most expensive one, but at the same price as the least expensive one. But there could be lots of reasons why they're not here - the weather in the South China Seas is terible at the moment (same weather as the Burmese Cyclone) and it could be the boat is late etc. etc.

I'm sure Ken will be along in a bit to tell us all about it.
 
WJA96 - do you mind me asking what you do for a living? You seem to have tested every single motherboard, chip, and cooling system released in the last decade!:p
 
I'm the Managing Director of a Business Consultancy. I started off in SAP consultancy and I sold my last company to one of the big SAP resellers in October 2005, part of which meant I had to stop being just an SAP Consultant, so, as I started off in food (chickens & turkeys!), I've now gone back into food technology and I supply consultancy, interim technical staff, hardware and software support to the food industry worldwide (I have customers in about 16 countries). If they need SAP consultancy as well, well, that's OK too;)

How can I get so much hardware? We quite often will build very high specification 'presents' for customers (especially the IT Directors) and bundle that into the price. If it gets 'tested' while it's being burned in then that's a bonus isn't it;) I also have a very good arrangement with my local component reseller in that if I take something and it's not very good, he's very good about taking it back as long as it comes back in as-new condition. So I can test a lot of stuff and return it if it's not doing what it should.

And before you ask how you get such a dream job, it involves a PhD, 20 years experience and huge amounts of hard work, plus some luck and good social networking skills.
 
Patience is a virtue - and at my age it's the only virtue I have left:p

Just look at it as an opportunity to save up a bit longer for a better CPU to go in it...

or The CPU you do buy will be cheaper as all things drop in price...

or It could be on TWO tomorrow...

or they might just be fine-tuning it so it thrashes the DFI (here's hoping)...
 
They are on their way from China now, I dont know if it will be the cheapest X48 on the market when they arrive (still negotiating and there is the dollar rate to consider too) but it wont be far off and it will have a few more features than the cheap DFI/Gigabyte offerings
 
The DFI X48 TR board is £165, and it's a very good board, and the ASRock X48 is supposedly £139 when it launches, and it supports DDR3 and DDR2. If it clocks it'll be the new best seller I reckon.
 
WJA96 said:
And before you ask how you get such a dream job, it involves a PhD, 20 years experience and huge amounts of hard work, plus some luck and good social networking skills.
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how about the fastrack approach? any tips lol

still interested in this board although i fancy it's pricing will be too close to the DFI for me to get interested.
 
marscay said:
although i fancy it's pricing will be too close to the DFI for me to get interested.
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Yes, although I desperately want another supplier in the market, especially one as helpful as J&W, I think this will live and die on pricing versus the DFI as that's it's no. 1 competitor, I reckon. The specification on the ASRock board isn't actually that great, and we haven't even seen the BIOS, let alone how well it will clock, whereas we at least know what the BIOS options are going to be on the J&W, and also that the board that Victor Wang has is a top clocker given a good CPU.
 
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