Originally Posted by
Eagle
ooooo yeah was looking at them but a bit expensive and do you really justify spending the extra compared to the small increase ... but then again its the fsb difference is 1333 worth it at the minute or wait a bit to see if prices drop
p35 has been here a while now so tried and tested i suppose, and i am not paying more than 70 or 80 for a mobo unless its really worth it
well there now the same price the q6600 was (£170) but yeah the only real reason to go for them is for the easier multiplyer when clocking (10 instead of 9) lol
thing is if you wait for prices to drop you'll be waiting forever!, i held off buying cos intel announced massive price cuts which did happen (q6600 now 140) but wasnt as massive as expected but they are still comming down slowly. also they've announced a new socket and line of cpu's to be due at the end of the year, but i bet they will be put off till next year.
also with the whole nvidia 9 series thing kicking off and now they've also announced there renaming the 8 series to 9 series (god knows why!) people seem to think its just a rebadge of the old cards or that it could mean a bigger better cards about to be released (so soon after the 9800 x2?)
seriously the only gains with the x38/48 boards is crossfire and crossfire x, as they support pcie 2.0 and true duel x16.
theres no difference in the clocking scores between the p35 and x38.
i'm going for the gigabite ds3 the only board that compares from what ive seen is the asus p5? but i've heard sooooo many compatabilty issues with it, the only niggle i've seen with the gigabite is it will double boot if you clock it.