DFI roadmap through Q4 2007

[turtle]

The new Intel chipsets support Penryn, and Penryn is supposedly 1600fsb, so I imagine they must support it (perhaps through a bios update if not from the start?). It's not on any roadmaps I've seen for the chipset, but either is Penryn being 1600...Only seen that at Teh Inq.

In all seriousness though, I don't see how that'd be a problem. If the circuitry of p965/975x boards allows for penryn, even it shouldn't have a problem. They can all hit 400FSB can't they? Couldn't it be done through a bios update easily on those boards as well?

[L1m1t.NL]

What I am wondering is if they will release a board that has support for both DDR3 and DDR2, like the upcoming MSI P35 Platinum D3 that was on show at Cebit.
I'm not going to use all 4 memory-slots, so why don't they make a P35 or X38 LanParty / Infinity with support for both (so 2 slots DDR2 and 2 slots DDR3) instead of making one for DDR3 and one for DDR2.
It just doesn't make any sense, I want support for both on 1 board!

[virtualrain]

What I am wondering is if they will release a board that has support for both DDR3 and DDR2, like the upcoming MSI P35 Platinum D3 that was on show at Cebit.
I'm not going to use all 4 memory-slots, so why don't they make a P35 or X38 LanParty / Infinity with support for both (so 2 slots DDR2 and 2 slots DDR3) instead of making one for DDR3 and one for DDR2.
It just doesn't make any sense, I want support for both on 1 board!

Why? In my opinion, if you have a heavy investment in DDR2, you are going to want to max-out the life span of it and by the time you have exhausted it and are ready to make the jump to DDR3, there will likely be all kinds of other reasons to upgrade your motherboard as well.

Although hybrid boards sound good and may make some people feel better about the migration, in the end, I can't imagine many people making the switch without a whole-sale platform change.

[turtle]

Why? In my opinion, if you have a heavy investment in DDR2, you are going to want to max-out the life span of it and by the time you have exhausted it and are ready to make the jump to DDR3, there will likely be all kinds of other reasons to upgrade your motherboard as well.

Although hybrid boards sound good and may make some people feel better about the migration, in the end, I can't imagine many people making the switch without a whole-sale platform change.

I agree, yet I don't. One's things for sure, DFI seems to agree with you.

I plan on going 4x1gb DDR2 when I make the jump, but I could surely see some people that may want to go 2x1gb DDR2 now, and 2x2GB DDR3 in the future, and a board like that could be one more incentive for grabbing p35 and not having to change platforms or motherboards until post-penryn.

[dinos22]

DFI has January TWICE A YEAR ROFL

[virtualrain]

DFI has January TWICE A YEAR ROFL

LOL! Problem is, that when they say they are going to deliver something in January, it's more like January only comes in leap years!

[virtualrain]

I agree, yet I don't. One's things for sure, DFI seems to agree with you.

I plan on going 4x1gb DDR2 when I make the jump, but I could surely see some people that may want to go 2x1gb DDR2 now, and 2x2GB DDR3 in the future, and a board like that could be one more incentive for grabbing p35 and not having to change platforms or motherboards until post-penryn.

Why not get a P35 board and 4GB of DDR3 right out of the gate? It will cost you an arm and a leg, but the 4GB of DDR2 will cost you an arm anyway, and by the time you are ready to upgrade, it will still cost a leg for the DDR3 so why not get the surgery over with now?

You and I are probably in a similar situation (runing DDR right now?)... if so, don't you think it's worth waiting and skipping DDR2 altogether?

It's either that, or invest in Q6600 and DDR2 now and then be one of the last to adopt DDR3 instead of one of the first. Those are my only two choices really.

[MonkSP]

Grave digging but are there any news on the release date of Dfi Lanparty X38-t3r? Shoukd be next month according to the early schedule.