Official GIGABYTE X38-DQ6/X38T-DQ6 Info/BIOS Thread

[Richard Dower]

In anticipation of the upcoming board from Gigabyte based around the X38 chipset, i give you a thread with some preliminary info:

http://www.hardwarezone.com/articles...?cid=6&id=2315

[Richard Dower]

Pic.

[Mad1723]

Seems like they got rid of the old 70's style condo that was cooling the chipset for a little more "traditionnal look"

[kenofstephen]

this is too early.............

[Richard Dower]

Not really Ken, only what 3 weeks away?

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/mainboa...820120456.html

[AMDfreak]

Only 2 PCIe 16x slots? I'll have to pass. Here's hoping Asus comes through for me so I can run Crossfire and my Areca card.

[icon57]

they finally got rid of the parallel port on the i/o connectors, and went with some e-sata's. this looks like the next mobo i will buy, in ddr2 flavor...

[vmsein]

Only 2 PCIe 16x slots? I'll have to pass. Here's hoping Asus comes through for me so I can run Crossfire and my Areca card.

I was thinking the exact same thing. I need at least 3 PCIe slots for dual video cards and a seperate raid controller.

[dr-ali]

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/produc...id=5&subid=946

[zsamz_]

bump
i will get mine this week

[icon57]

i hope to have one by friday.

[flopper]

in sweden a few got the boards today.

[Feichti]

i have got mine





i am installing it now

feichti

[Richard Dower]

Lovely pics....please post more if you can, maybe focus on the layout and the chips.

[Richard Dower]

It's available at www.komplett.ie for €265 minus shipping.

[Origin_Unknown]

will the Thermalright ultra-120-extreme fit?

[vanovich]

nice,mine will be comming in a day or so , any results yet anyone? high fsb?

[zsamz_]

directcanada has some left ncix is sold out

[S1mon-]

NCIX has it in stock atm zsamz...

[zsamz_]

NCIX has it in stock atm zsamz...

lol they got new stock
cheaper @ DIRECTCANADA

[ACE76]

After reading the tomshardware review on this motherboard, I wouldn't jump on it...at least not yet...you might just wind up spending a lot of $$$ for a motherboard that can't overclock better than any of $150 P35 mobos out now.

Hopefully BIOS updates will improve overclocking....Am I the only one that is reading on Intel's repeated (I believe 4 in one month) BIOS revisions given to board companies before launch of this chipset?...couple that with the respin Intel had to do and it makes me feel a bit underwhelmed about X38....maybe that's why the X48 is coming out just a month after this??

[theonlybabyface]

I agree. I wouldn't jump on x38 for a couple of reasons:

1 - Need DDR3 to utilize full potential.
2 - x48 is just around the corner and is supposed to be "the" overclocking chipset.
3 - P35 is doing just fine and dandy and the prices of P35 based mobo's should fall some more.
4 - pci-x 2.0 bandwidth will not be utilized for at least until a chipset or two come out.
5 - prices of these mobo's!!

[Feichti]

here some first benchs from me


3Dmark 06

Main Test Results
3DMark Score 16094 3DMarks
SM 2.0 Score 6145 Marks
SM 3.0 Score 7683 Marks
CPU Score 4630 Marks

Gigabyte X38-DQ6
Q6600@ 3000 MHZ @ 9x333
2 GB DDR2 RAM
2xHD2900xt @ Crossfire with ATI 7.10 Beta Drivers 6.14.10.6727

http://www.hardware.feichti.com/gfx/...@crossfire.jpg

for 3 ghz thats nice i think

btw on the gigabyte homepage you can find New Bios F3 and F4

feichti

[dinos22]

nice man

so Xfire works fine

can you overclock the cards under xfire

[Feichti]

nice man

so Xfire works fine

can you overclock the cards under xfire

no sorry i havnt got these tool to flash the bios from the cards

here one more test


3Dmark 06

Main Test Results
3DMark Score 17939 3DMarks
SM 2.0 Score 7054 Marks
SM 3.0 Score 8274 Marks
CPU Score 5271 Marks

Gigabyte X38-DQ6
Q6600@ 3400 MHZ @ 9x378
2 GB DDR2 RAM
2xHD2900xt @ Crossfire with ATI 7.10 Beta Driver 6.14.10.6727

http://www.hardware.feichti.com/gfx/...@crossfire.jpg


now i try 3,6-3,8 ghz

feichti