Summary: The Intel X38 based mainboard with DDR2 SDRAM support from Gigabyte pleased us with the absence of some frustrating drawbacks we have seen before.
Pros: Compatibility with upcoming Penryn processors and 1600MHz bus support;, Good features for CPU and memory overclocking;, Supports PCI Express 2.0 x16 bus with twice the...
Cons: No Nvidia SLI support;, Low performance during overclocking;, Lowering of processor Vcore and significant Vcore drop under high workload.
Excerpt: The Intel X38 chipset is finally here, and all of the hype that surrounded it is now able to be tested against other great chipset releases from Intel. What makes this
Summary: The overall performance of the Gigabyte GA-X38 DQ6 is fairly good and performed as expected. It produced some good results in some of our benchmark tests. In general, I...
Conclusion: Overclocking The Gigabyte X38-DQ6 Quad turned out to be a decent overclocker. I guess I must be jaded, as a couple of years ago reaching a maximum stable FSB of 480MHz...
Summary: While this is our first review of an Intel X38 motherboard on Linux, we are also preparing for our review of the ASUS P5E3 Deluxe motherboard and will be delivering that
Conclusion: With the X38-DQ6 Gigabyte certainly has another hit on their hands. The board has an excellent feature set and delivered solid performance in our benchmarks, generally...
Summary: The M9 is a simple case with big possiblities. Possibilities ranging for a good air cooling system or with some imagination an even better water-cooling setup.
Excerpt: Intel's Core 2 platform has become the gamer's choice. Finally we have seen the death of the Intel Netburst architecture as the king of the hill, or at least as Intel saw...