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

sounds interesting ive been reading and waiting patiently but now bleh cant wait for people to get some and test them out :P hurry up and let us loose on them :D
 
I don't think they'll be pushed into an early release as the IP35-Pro was released with a less than fully cooked BIOS and that really blew up in their faces. If they have any sense they'll test this one to death before they release it.
 
We need a mobo manufacturer to team up with case makers to make a cmos reset button on front case, something like a reset button, smaller and harder to press and clearly out the way of power/reset so no accidental hitting it ina dark room under table. so that cmos reset becomes another standard button with cable along side the power/reset/led wires. no idea how its taken so long to get this done considering the aim towards enthusiasts for most of the end user buying mobo's and cases. stupid jumper and batterys located in places that are impossible to get to.

but failing that, a basic pci bracket + switch + wire to attach to cmos reset jumper would do for now and be stupidly cheap, add 20p to the cost of the board.
 
WJA96 said:
Again, I agree. Have you seen the J&W IP35-Pro? They launched it. As an overclocking board it died on it's feet with the shipping BIOS. They rewrote the BIOS in 3 weeks and now it's gone from dog to god. Amazing transformation.
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to a point thats great, but at £65 with all the extras, if they could shave £5-10 off and get rid of 6 spare usb, 2 firewire, 3e-sata, even maybe go with 1 pci for soundcard, and in the future once soundcards move on to probably pci-e then a single 1x pci-e for that, and ditch onboard sound, all the audio outs and so on. then you have a stupidly cheap board to abuse the hell out of, or just for an insanely cheap 2nd/3rd system. i've yet to, on what can't be far off 50 mobo's in the last 5-6 years, come remotely close to using up all the stuff onboard. never used more than 2 usb ports, never used firewire or e-sata, not used any paralel/serial ports in about a decade, i sometimes use pci for soundcard, not used them for lan in a long long time now.

i think based on how hot memory gets that thermalrights/thermaltakes angle adjustable mem heatsinks, which are a heatspread with heatpipe connecting to fins for proper heatsink action(heatspreaders do nothing at all) aren't a bad idea. but with 4 sticks being used you simply can not use them. would also help if companies didn't use heatspreaders so you didn't have to void warranties, or thermalright/take would make ones that simply rest over the spreaders, you'd get plenty enough contact so spread heat. either way an extra 1-2mm between mem slots would make all the difference and all the spare pcb routing space with less outputs and onboard stuff to route everywhere hopefully it will be do-able.
 
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Talrinys said:
One will absolutely be on the way to me :D

Ken you wanna tell us if you're making a Nehalem motherboard yet? Would really like the highend Nehalem chipset but it'll probably be really expensive so if you guys made a cheap alternative it would be great.
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It will be something like a "reference board" which follows the Intel design, because it is very complicated comparing with existing boards. cheap or not, we have to see the final costs. ;)
 
Interesting stuffs, keeping an eye on this as it develops as I was going to buy a ABIT P35 Pro board but this only just seems a little bit more expensive and is PCIe 2.0 which is tempting. If this board releases with a rock solid BIOS and decent NB cooling you have my money.

And to revive a comment I've seen, what would the "linuxBIOS" bring to the table, I've seen some impressive concepts but I'm not sure how it would work overclocking wise.

Good luck guys on the board it is shaping up to be really good.

PS: Black PCB all the way.
 
Intriguing. I'm still undecided on the mobo front, and waiting for the 9450 means I've got a bit of time. A company that takes time to involve it's customers in the process certainly gets my attention.

I'm with WJA96 and drunkenmaster on the spec though. I'm tired of having to buy an expensive mobo with features I'm not interested in to get decent components.

Ken, get out of bed and get this finished please ;)
 
Gigas got a X38 board for 130 beans.... + its available in stock now

I think by the time this board comes in stock we will see X38 other boards around the £110-120 mark so wont matter frankly.
 
kenofstephen said:
It will be something like a "reference board" which follows the Intel design, because it is very complicated comparing with existing boards. cheap or not, we have to see the final costs. ;)
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That sounds good, all i'm looking for is a well functioning version of the top chipset(you know the one with 3 memory channels and support for 8 cores) and i really appreciate what you're doing here, good job!
 
HighlandeR said:
Gigas got a X38 board for 130 beans.... + its available in stock now

I think by the time this board comes in stock we will see X38 other boards around the £110-120 mark so wont matter frankly.
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Only 1 of them left, so i suppose that people will have to hurry if they want that one :P
 
Monkeynut said:
Kenofstephen, what cooling will you use on the board, custom or reference design?
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heatpipe for Northbridge, extending to PWM mosfets. and heatsink for southbridge.
for southbridge we considered not to be connected, as it is not necessary (not that hot) and not conveinient for users that would take away the heatpipe for water cooling.
 
Thats useful to hear, if you could show any kinda photoshop mockups of what the placing and shape of the heatpipe would be that would be nice. Keep working hard on this board guys! :)
 
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