Quote Originally Posted by jcool View Post
... But it really seems the X38 doesn't like my Quad. Hell, I've seen people go back to the P35 because they said it clocks better...
I feel your pain, but look at the bright side - I just realized that the X38 chipset delivers a better data throughput for the quad-core in multi-threaded apps than the P35, clock for clock. This is not easily seen with most single-threaded benches out there, as X38 bears little difference from it's outstanding brethren P35. In single or dual-threaded apps both chipsets trade blows, but X38 stands out where you want to fully realize your quad-core advantage. It's a better multi-tasker chipset I'd say. And that's why we invested in a quad-core, isn't it?

PS. After all, the X38/X48 was designed with better DDR3 performance in mind, therefore it is logical that it maintains a higher throughput performance in resource-contention situations. I hope more & more people will confirm my findings.