** OFFICIAL ** Intel DX38BT & DX48BT2 BoneTrail Thread

[odditory]

Greetings >gtj< - I'm interested in this new board - my understanding was boards based on this chipset weren't out until January (or maybe that's just the 45nm CPUs i'm thinking of).

Anyway I've been a lurker/fan for about a year; have bought several D975XBX2's over time based on your threads. Whenever I've bought a new board for a friend and forgotten overclock settings I just google-searched any one of the machine-names in your sig I could remember since you have all the settings spelled out and I could just plug them in to the bios! To be honest though I haven't done much D975XBX2 tinkering since getting an EVGA 680i board + 2x 8800GTX's about 6 or 7 months ago.

However with this new Intel board has my interest is back.

In trying to determine a cost/benefit buying into this board (biggest hit being DDR3 mem cost) it occurs that I'm not sure what real world usage or apps will benefit from the greater memory speed other than 3d or video transcoding. I may still buy in for no reason other than to serve as a tinker toy. I've been buying Intel branded boards for 15 years now when stability was needed for a new client/friend build and one thing I do know is the first 1-6 months of a new generation of Intel-branded board are *always* rough in terms of bugginess!

Anyway thanks for the great work and interesting threads and I'm sure there are others like me that have lurked in silence yet appreciated your postings and gained much knowledge.

-Odditory