ASUS Maximus Formula SE

[jonny_ftm]

Just to add, X48, although being newer and a higher model number, is not necessarily any different for us overclockers anyways. X48 only really makes official claim specs to FSB 1600 and DDR1600. DDR3 based X38's do that with ease already, it's called overclocking. X48 looses true ECC DDR support.

It looks more like X48 may just be another chipset stepping stone (like P35 to X38) till something new and improoved coems for Nehelam support w/ modern DDR3 and ICH10R and new Intel integrated MCH on chip for end of next year, or early '09.

Please, don't claim facts, when you don't know what really it is (sorry, was also pi**ed by that Barton explanation, and just prefered to shut up, as some people -not you- are deaf to any explanations, but kimandsally showed it very well). No bad feelings, but here are FACTS

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Gigab...48-71635.shtml

Gigabyte is taking the time to build a rev1.1 of the board when they can just swap the X38 for a X48. Looks like PCB v1.1 will be reserved to the next X48 with an emphasis on overclocking performance... Also, a rev1.1 less than 2 months after a rev1.0...

Be sure, ASUS is doing the same, but, opposed to Gigabyte, they never officially announced in time a "small revision of their PCBs (they are very marketting aware to do it).

Buyers should really wait, the X48 on new PCB revisions should definetealy give the stability of quadcores over 400MHz FSB. If that stability is so hard to reach till now, it is evident that it is not a CPU or RAM problem, but a motherboard problem. With offcial 400 FSB support for upcoming 45nm quad core CPUs, the X48 motherboards layout will have no choice than give you some headroom to garant stability at 400MHz FSB. Pumping 425-440 MHz from actual Q6600 chips, would no longer be motherboard limited hopefully.

In fact, actually, all X38 PCB revisions need to pump a crazy vcore in the NB and FSB to stabilize a 400MHz FSB on the quads, while, on the new X48 revisions, it will be at stock specs.

My two cents, based on Gigabyte official announcements and Intel 400MHz FSB quad cores that new motherboards must support fully at stock specs.