Gigabyte GA-X38-DQ6: Early Preview of Intel X38

malware · Sep 4, 2007

AnandTech published today an early performance preview of the Gigabyte GA-X38-DQ6 Intel X38 based motherboard.

Our testing today is centered on a select group of synthetic and application benchmarks that will provide a general indication of how the X38 currently performs with beta hardware. We will follow up shortly with results from a retail board/BIOS combination that will focus on CrossFire (sorry, as of now there's no official SLI support), overclocking, power consumption, and additional application benchmarks.

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Ravenas · Sep 4, 2007

Those heat sinks are old news, have them on my model...

nflesher87 · Sep 4, 2007

well that was a fairly boring preview...
though mainly because they didn't want to do too much since it was just an ES but still...

HellasVagabond · Sep 4, 2007

Well its almost the same as the p965-Dq6 and P35-DQ6 in design.....But i think i will delay my upgrade till this baby comes out.

Ravenas · Sep 4, 2007

Gigabyte needs to step it up and give Asus some competition.

EastCoasthandle · Sep 4, 2007

When you look at the gaming results it's clear that upgrading (at this time) is more of a hobby then an actually need.

LiveOrDie · Sep 4, 2007

asus is just a better band when i come down to new looks

sinner33 · Sep 4, 2007

My personal preference would be Gigabyte, as I like their heatpipe design more.

HellasVagabond · Sep 4, 2007

I like the options in the Gigabyte Bios better than the ones at ASUS.

Fusion · Sep 4, 2007

Finally a MB with enough USB conections, so that I don't need to have headers and expansion cards :slap:

WarEagleAU · Sep 5, 2007

arent gigabyte and asus merged now or something?

ktr · Sep 5, 2007

WarEagleAU said:
arent gigabyte and asus merged now or something?

i think that gigabyte boards are made from asus factories...more or less parters.

edit: joint venture

http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/934/

Grings · Sep 5, 2007

bit expensive
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-092-GI&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=946
available (here in blighty) 14th this month, also at tekheads (sites down atm) same price as ocuk

edit: better price here:http://www.komplett.co.uk/k/ki.aspx?sku=339839

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