Grab a late P5K Deluxe or early X38?
There's no such thing as the perfect anything but the ideal motherboard for me atm must have good layout, stability, ability to OC, have plenty of internal USB headers (I've potentially got up to 6 frontal USB ports), ideally have 3 usable PCI slots, and must have WiFi.
Out of the Abit IP35 Pro, Gigabyte GA P35 DQ6, Asus P5K Deluxe the P5K Deluxe pretty much has it. The only reason I haven't bought it yet is the SATA placement issue, I have an 8800 gts which, I believe, will cover possibly 2 of the SATA ports(?) - I will have SATA 2xHDD's, 2xDVD-RW's, and have the future in mind.
X38 is literally round the corner, it's new and new chipsets / motherboards usually come with the added ball-ache of a teething and tweaking period, plus the initial price premium. But, there might be an ideal X38 with all of the above. If, reports are true, I know if I leave it too long a P5K Deluxe will be hard/impossible to find.
Someone probably has an in-depth low-down-hoe-down on X38 merits and minuses over P35, I've just read the obvious overview stuff that's been put out so far.
Opinions and thoughts welcome, thanks.
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Its the GTX and the Ultra that covers them, but its only the Ultra's cooler that gets in the way.
You can still do it with one angled cable and one straight one, and as the GTS is shorter, I think you should be fine.
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in the same position as you, been waiting quite long for the X38, better be worth it or else i'll get the p35
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in the same position as you, been waiting quite long for the X38, better be worth it or else i'll get the p35
me too.
although as the P5K deluxe seems to have been removed from scan - apparently discontinued, and the others are awaiting stock, it seems that the X38 may be available byt the time the others are in stock.
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ill probably go for Blitz formula if I don't go for the X38
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ill probably go for Blitz formula if I don't go for the X38
That's really meant for water cooling. Many of the big Air HSFs won't fit.
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X38 is a while off.... and may well end up being called X40/48
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and may well end up being called X40/48
Is that a HEXUS.Pun or is it for real? :)
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X38 is a while off.... and may well end up being called X40/48
How long do you mean when you say a while, roughly, like? Been waiting on this, but the P5B deluxe audio problem is really annoying me, so I might go for something else if we're talking over 3 months....
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I'd be suprised if we saw mass market before end of Oct...
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Do we know what the delay is?
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Well they were all supposed to hit market end Aug/Sept - and aren't going to :)
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Is there a story on the way?
And whats the X40/X48 thing about?
Come on Fanny, get your beanz out :D
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October my arse. That's not going to work for me at all :p
...just this second placed an order for a p5k deluxe, £136 all in. Waiting over.
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ASUS Prepares X38 Express Motherboard
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The X38 chipset date looks to have been moved from the end of September to the 9th of September
looks like a repeat of the p35 launch from what i've read. Mobos available before Intel's official release date on Sept 23rd
Haven't heard anything to the contrary to support
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Well they were all supposed to hit market end Aug/Sept - and aren't going to
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