News Gigabyte X38-DQ6

[Frank M]

well DS4/DS3P has always shared the same PCB as the DQ6, but with differences like lower phase power and no heatpipes on the DS3P

But this is supposed to be the highend chipset.
There was a 650-DS4, but afaik there wasn't 650-DS3P, nor 680-DS3P.

As the X38 chips are supposedly just a bit more expensive, I hope it is true, but
at this point, it sounds like it's just speculation.

[[XC] gomeler]

Somehow I feel disappointed. I guess I missed the memo that there really isn't any official SLI support on X38 so unless someone gets smart and cracks the drivers then we have to wait for another iteration of hot nvidia chipsets.

[Morais]

the heatpipe solution looks very simmilar to the AMD 790 gigabyte chipset board

[Spawne32]

Meh, i thought i was gona see somthing exciting here but i didnt. Same old gigabyte styling, poor layout :/

[BigRigDriver]

Sexy Mobo

[irev210]

im still not sure what people where expecting to see.

I see the perfect balance between usable PCI-E and PCI. Since most people will be running with 1 dual slot GPU, generally that leaves 2 1x PCI-E and 2 PCI slots.

Even if you run Dual GPU, you still have one PCI slot and two PCI-E slots. Seems perfect.

[NapalmV5]

perfect?? yeh pazvanti perfect

[Zytek_Fan]

*sigh* No official SLI support....at least they retained CrossFire support.

[LuckyNV]

But this is supposed to be the highend chipset.
There was a 650-DS4, but afaik there wasn't 650-DS3P, nor 680-DS3P.

As the X38 chips are supposedly just a bit more expensive, I hope it is true, but
at this point, it sounds like it's just speculation.

I'm just going by what I saw with Intel P965 and P35 chipsets, if you go to Gigabytes website there is a whole slew of models that seem to be a mirror image of each other (P965 and P35)

Nvidia chipsets feature about two... 680i-DQ6 and 650i-DS4

[zerazax]

Looks pretty good. Now to see what ASUS and other companies have on hand.

The slot configuration isn't too bad for me although another PCIE slot would be good, as some companies have 3 and even 4 of them (at x16, x 16, x4, x4) since the board is capable of that.

Board *is* supposed to overclock like crazy though so hopefully all this durability stuff helps it

[Hornet331]

hmm another board with 8 internal sata ports, just what i want.

[zerazax]

Well just 2 more weeks hopefully and we can get some benches

[noobzed]

no sli on this mobo cause no sli-chipset near the Sb...

[zerazax]

SLI doesn't require that

All it requires is the driver with a codeline that enables X38 boards

[WRC]

i wonder where is the extra molex (or whatever) connector for the pci-e 2.0 requirement, they need 300 watts for both of them

[afireinside]

Its two full x16 PCIe 2.0 slots, so its a bit different...
Also has ICH9R, supposedly better memory-handling and overclocking, more
eSata, etc. What else do you think it should have?

ICH9R is just SB... which is on p35

[Dainas]

Well, atleast the toned down the Silent pipe crap that plagued their P35 chipset. Tuniq installation? 1 hour please.

[LuckyNV]

i wonder where is the extra molex (or whatever) connector for the pci-e 2.0 requirement, they need 300 watts for both of them

look near the RAM slots

Well, atleast the toned down the Silent pipe crap that plagued their P35 chipset. Tuniq installation? 1 hour please.

The P35 rev2.0 boards have the same reduced size heatsinks

[dinos22]

im still not sure what people where expecting to see.

I see the perfect balance between usable PCI-E and PCI. Since most people will be running with 1 dual slot GPU, generally that leaves 2 1x PCI-E and 2 PCI slots.

Even if you run Dual GPU, you still have one PCI slot and two PCI-E slots. Seems perfect.

i'm with you there

everything looks to be in the right place

'cept maybe for cmos clear location but that can be worked around with an old case switch

[oohms]

This is funny, theres a predictable pattern here with new chipset/mobo releases:

First boards are gigabyte/msi and are usually pretty average
A few weeks later asus comes along and brings something a bit better
A bit later, abit comes along with their usually ok boards
At the same time all the crappy boards come out (foxconn, ecs, etc)
Then DFI comes out a month or more later



Also i heard somewhere that the X38 wasn't that much more expensive than the P35, so an X38-DS3P doesn't sound all that unlikely

[Solarfall]

blah heat pipe cooling AGAIN.. i really dont like the ongoing trend atm.. everything was better in the NF4 days..

[Brother Esau]

GAAAAWD that is one friggin ugly Motherboard Man.... GIGABYTE pull it together and stoop making these pastel pansy ass looking boards!

[LuckyNV]

blah heat pipe cooling AGAIN.. i really dont like the ongoing trend atm.. everything was better in the NF4 days..

those heatpipes are rather conservative IMO, and many NF4 boards used active cooling, my own DFI cooler died within 10months, and it was loud too.

[Solarfall]

those heatpipes are rather conservative IMO, and many NF4 boards used active cooling, my own DFI cooler died within 10months, and it was loud too.

well being a dude thats loves to play around with extreme cooling, noise has never been a issue for me

[BeardyMan]

well being a dude thats loves to play around with extreme cooling, noise has never been a issue for me

You think so?
Buy and dfi s dark with a squaling coil

it will be an issue for you