The X38 chipset, and motherboards powered by it will officially arrive on September 9 and all the usual suspects are set to be ready for the date with quite a few interesting offers. Earlier this week we showed you one of Gigabyte's affordable X38 boards and now it is time to meet the second best X38 board coming out of Gigabyte's factories - the DDR2-supporting GA-X38-DQ6.
The GA-X38-DQ6 is a high-end board that will reap all the benefits from the X38 chipset but will 'only' come with DDR2 slots so as to keep the cost of upgrading to some decent levels. Other than the 'old' DDR2, the board will feature support for Intel's upcoming 45nm CPUs with FSBs of up to 1600MHz. In addition, the new motherboard will have two x16 PCIe 2.0 slots and will support Crossfire setups (sorry guys, no SLI), eight SATA 3.0 Gbps connectors, two Gigabit Ethernet controllers, one IDE connector and integrated 8 channel audio.
The board also features a quite compact heat-pipe-based cooling system that is a lot smaller than the one found on the GA-P35-DQ6. The GA-X38-DQ6 will hit the stores early next month and will have its price tag set just above those of Gigabyte's top-end P35 offers. Motherboard images are of the X38T, the DDR3 version but the 'non-T' board will be practically identical.
Images courtesy of IxtremTech. Source
The GA-X38-DQ6 is a high-end board that will reap all the benefits from the X38 chipset but will 'only' come with DDR2 slots so as to keep the cost of upgrading to some decent levels. Other than the 'old' DDR2, the board will feature support for Intel's upcoming 45nm CPUs with FSBs of up to 1600MHz. In addition, the new motherboard will have two x16 PCIe 2.0 slots and will support Crossfire setups (sorry guys, no SLI), eight SATA 3.0 Gbps connectors, two Gigabit Ethernet controllers, one IDE connector and integrated 8 channel audio.
The board also features a quite compact heat-pipe-based cooling system that is a lot smaller than the one found on the GA-P35-DQ6. The GA-X38-DQ6 will hit the stores early next month and will have its price tag set just above those of Gigabyte's top-end P35 offers. Motherboard images are of the X38T, the DDR3 version but the 'non-T' board will be practically identical.
Images courtesy of IxtremTech. Source
