Tuesday, November 20th 2007
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abit Unveils IX48-MAX Motherboard Based on Intel's X48 Chipset
While abit's IX38 QuadGT has only been recently introduced to the market, the company has now unveiled its IX48-MAX motherboard based on the soon to be announced Intel X48 high-end chipset. The X48 comes with official support for upcoming (Yorkfield-based) 1600MHz front side bus processors and provides many advanced overclocking features. The IX48-MAX will be a DDR3-1600 supporting motherboard with two PCI Express 2.0 16X slots, ICH9R Southbridge, and support for XMP memory.
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30 Comments on abit Unveils IX48-MAX Motherboard Based on Intel's X48 Chipset
I was hoping that moving to S775 would mean no motherboard upgrade needed when getting a new prosessor, but I bet that it won't be long until there is no 1066 FSB prosessors left :/
Edit: and by the looks of the NB cooler, it's running hotter than my prosessor on stock!
X38 is to x48 as 2900pro is to 2900xt
1600fsb support is to higher clock speeds - both things can be changed via the bios.
if you're not careful, you may learn a thing or two.
a) they need to make less chipsets (or rename them less)
b) lower P35 and X38 prices greatly (and would that make my P965 a budget board then :( payed top$ for this..)
c) make chipsets with lower nm=cooler=less copperheatpipethingies=cheaper
video cards aren't my field anyway so yeah
lol, you cant put a big cooler on cpu! :(
IDE and PCI will be the next to go.