Hello. I'm thinking about buying a D975XBX2 for a new system, and this forum seems like a good place where to ask for advice. I understand Intel will probably stop producing this board soon, but hopefully it's now more stable than a newly launched board will be for months.

Basically I wand to build a silent, cool, but reasonably fast system and the numbers for the power dissipation from the P35 chipset put me off. But I can't avoid wondering if I'm being silly for not picking the newer chipset. What would you advise? Is the D975XBX2 already outdated, and should I go for a P35-based board instead?

I still have some hope for Penryn support on the 975x based boards - someone mentioned in another thread that both these and the newer P35 follow the VRM11.0 specification. But I already got burned by Intel once, with an early D875 and no support for prescott (although in that case the VRM had changed), so I'm not really counting on it.