Who said X48 would be no better than X38 Read on!!

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I have just read an interesting article about the new Asus Rampage Formula which i think a lot of you will find interesting to say the least.

Its a very in depth article on how different X48 might be compared to X38 and other chipsets.

the review is found here

http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=3208&p=1

Now I used to use memtest which I think does the same sorta thing but it had to load at windows startup, but this is in the bios so works with any OS.

Anyways enjoy the read I did and comment. :-)
 
Anyone know when this Motherboard will be available to purchase? I was considering the Asus P5E3 Premium/Wifi@N Intel X48, because I need the best Motherboard money can buy, that has the most future proof and performance, and I don't mind having to pay a premium for it. I like the sound of this one, as it states, it supports DDR2 as well as DDR3.
 
so i take it, this new Asus Rampage Formula, is looking to be a better Intel X48 Motherboard, than Asus P5E3 Premium/Wifi@N Intel X48?
 
I'd guess the Rampage is going to be the most expensive desktop motherboard we've ever seen.
 
Sylver123 said:
so i take it, this new Asus Rampage Formula, is looking to be a better Intel X48 Motherboard, than Asus P5E3 Premium/Wifi@N Intel X48?
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I dont think so maybe the Asus P5E3 has the same options IDK look at Custompc this month they have a review.

Cob said:
I'd guess the Rampage is going to be the most expensive desktop motherboard we've ever seen.
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No Its likely to be very good value same as Asus formula was. They will offer two versions same as X38 a formula DDR2 and an Extreme DDR3
 
Cob said:
So will there be a more expensive DDR3 version?
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Yea basically they are trying to smooth the transition from DDR2 to DDR3 with all the expense that inccurs, but before long say 6 months they probably drop DDR2 all together on new boards.

IMO DDR3 isnt worth it at the min, £370 + for 2gb of Corsair 1800 DDR3 as
apposed to £70 of good old Crucial Ballistic P8500, but having read the review if you can afford the extreme processors then hey buy DDR3 if buying new system. It's the future LOL
 
I have to say i like the look of this.

Having just gone to a cross fire solution on a p35 i could do with a nice speed boost!! of the x16 lanes. :D
 
I`ll be buying my new system in about 4 months time, and will need the very best of motherboard that money can buy.

Dose anyone know if there will be a version of the X48 motherboards, that will do/support SLI Technology? because this is the only down side about these motherboards right now, as I kinda like NVIDIA better right now.
 
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Sylver123 said:
I`ll be buying my new system in about 4 months time, and will need the very best of motherboard that money can buy.

Dose anyone know if there will be a version of the X48 motherboards, that will do/support SLI Technology? because this is the only down side about these motherboards right now, as I kinda like NVIDIA better right now.
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Nvidea will not release license to allow it to be used on intel boards, only on there own boards. These boards have dual PCI-e 16x slots which means in the case of the Formula version you can run Crossfire. 2 ATI graphics cards. With the Extreme in theory you can run tri CF, but i'm not sure It has 3 x 16 PCI-E lanes

The trouble is ATI dont produce comparable cards performance wise to the 8800 GTX/Ultras and with 9000 series coming soon they probably won't for a while.
Who needs SLI? I bought a P5n32-SLI and 2 GTX 8800 found I couldn't clock quads easily on the board so sold it and bought X38 using 1 card, really good decision which i'm glad in retrospect i made. I run 2560 x 1600 and with best settings for Dx9 in Crysis np at all using autoexec file in Crysis directory.
 
Depends really the 790i will be the real test of all this, DDR3 Intel chipset with crossfire vs DDR3 Nvidia chipsets with SLI, It could go any way really.
 
Since i`ll buying my new system in about 4 months time, will I have time to check out the 790i, before I purchase the hardware components for my system?
 
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Sylver123 said:
so basically, SLI isn`t really worth it, and one high end NVIDIA card on these motherboards should do just fine for power gaming?
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Yep thats is at the min, but if you wait four months I still think the nvidia boards will under perform the Intel ones processor wise. I find I can play any game I want at this resolution which is on a 30" lcd Dell np at all with 1 8800 GTX at the minute. The 9000 cards look promising, but in four months time would be good time to buy a q6600 for about £70 and put it on a decent X48 board clock it to 3.6Ghz costing £155 with 2gb DDR2 Crucial ram about £70 and buy either a 8800GTX or Ultra or a 8800GT.

Or if you want the Ultimate buy the X48 extreme over the P5e premium (see CustomPC this months issue they dont really rate the P5e ) probably about same sort of price by then and if your lucky Corsair 1800 DDD3 memory might have come down in price or cellshock DDR3 at the minute about £325

If money was not the issue I would go down the Extreme path, I still might and sell my DDR2 board with 4GB PC8500 and buy into DDR3.

It some ways better to spend on the display more, it lasts a bit longer and you get your moneys worth.
 
TheBiznes said:
Or if you want the Ultimate buy the X48 extreme over the P5e premium (see CustomPC this months issue they dont really rate the P5e ) probably about same sort of price by then and if your lucky Corsair 1800 DDD3 memory might have come down in price or cellshock DDR3 at the minute about £325

If money was not the issue I would go down the Extreme path, I still might and sell my DDR2 board with 4GB PC8500 and buy into DDR3.

It some ways better to spend on the display more, it lasts a bit longer and you get your moneys worth.
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I take it, when you say: if you want the Ultimate buy the X48 extreme, you mean the Asus Rampage Formula Extreme Edition?
 
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