Why X38 and not P35 ?

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Hallo Forum ,.. whant a new gigabyte MB but cant decide betwen X38 and P35

They seems a bit "to close" even thought the expensive new X38 from Gigabyte
seems to have some 1600 FSB that is not availablve in the P35 series, so what
kind of futureproof or performance gain is there ? the first articles seems to say
that basic performance is almost equal, and bridge getting hotter is not so very
promissing in the OC department,... but maybe the X38 boards will support up-
comming CPU´s lines AFTER the 45 nm likely ? (or else I don´t see the idea)

So in short: what is the GOOD reasons to choose X38 and not P35 ?

Thanks for any help,. for now I will use DDR2 and OCed Q6600 for video-work
 
I think Penryn's successor (Nehalem) will be on a new socket (Socket H and/or Socket B), so a new motherboard will be needed.

The only real advantage X38 seems to offer atm is the two full x16 PCI-E slots, especially if you aren't intending to use DDR3 in the next couple of years. P35 will run DDR3 ok, but X38 seems to be better suited to it.

If you want to splash £200 on a board then X38 is certainly the better option, but it doesn't seem to be worth the money over a £120-£130 P35 board.
 
Cob said:
Penryn's successor (Nehalem) will be on a new socket
only real advantage X38 seems two full x16 PCI-E slots, especially if you aren't intending to use DDR3 in
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Thanks for reply, yes I will use DDR2 as DDR3 is not worth it, the new socket
thing after penryn was just what I did fear, a dead-end,... about two full X16
PCI-E it is a non-issue, X4 is OK, even for medio biderectional raid-controllers,
(if I ever wanted one that is), there will be no gaming, and only one moderate
ghraphic card, the machine will be for video and audio edit, the software will
be Reaper, Vegas, and Liquid,... no need for highend graphic-card, only Avids
liquid edition can take a little advantage but all ATI´s after over 9600 will do

I will focus on P35 maybe even 965, with good Matrix Storage insteadt, then
tweak the Q6600 as much possible,.. and consider the system to be on duty
without upgrades untill a major rebuild 3-4 years from now,. likely 8/16 core
 
Nehalem will be octa-core. Although its so far in the future and will probably be delayed countless times that I wouldn't worry about it at all. Penryn will only be surfacing this year as a $1000 Extreme Edition chip.
 
wuyanxu said:
so buying a new computer now, q6600 is still the way to go?
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Yes still one of the best solutions, and one of the top-player unless you will
go dual-quad with Xeons based on X5000 chipset, (server-boards), however
this hole thread was about what MB to put it on preparing next generation,
seems like opcomming penryn´s will end the line, and they will not be octa,
guess they will just rise the MHZ a little and maybe improve cashe further,
all available at P35 and some 965 boards,..... after that comes a new era.

no X38 for me
 
Jonny L said:
Doesn't x38 also support pci-e 2.0 ??
And which fsb will penryn be?? 1600 or 1333??
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Maybe pci-e 2.0 is important for some, don´t know, as for the 1600 FSB, like
said, I just refered to what Gigabyte has done with their version, it seems so
far that they believe in a 1600 fsb version of penryn,.. so fsb performance is
likely good, however according to one of the early reviews, (likely anandtech),
the bridge gets far to hot when things are pushed,.... time will tell about OC

My impression is still that P35 is pressing all juice out of Q6600 already now
 
Jonny L said:
ahh thanks, so why does the x38 state that it will support 1600fsb cpus if penryn (supposedly the last skt 775 cpu family) will be 1333fsb?
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1600 FSB *may* come out in Penryn flavour, but at the moment and currently known is that they will only be 1333 FSB.
 
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