Anyone know when your expecting X38 boards?

[grimpy]

Any idea especially the maximus formula?

[ScottY_]

I have seen a few for pre-order and the one im interested in Asus Maximus Formula for pre-order it's £206 but scan and everywhere else usually charge less, this company have word from the supplied it should be in within the next few weeks, any news from scan?

[Chris P]

We have an outstanding PO for the Gigabyte LN19836 , which is overdue from the 15th September, so we would expect stock to land any day.

We have 5 Asus boards, due to be released shortly with the ETA TBC

The web site will be updated as soon as we have more information

Best Regards

[EzyRyder]

Who wants one anyway? They are extremely pricey and only support DDR3 (that is even pricier!).

[crazy]

We have 5 Asus boards, due to be released shortly with the ETA TBC

is one of them by any chance the maximus formula

Who wants one anyway? They are extremely pricey and only support DDR3 (that is even pricier!).

There are DDR2 versions as well (maximus formula)

[Pyr0]

i want one of the new Asus ROG boards, put me down for a DDR3'er

[ScottY_]

Who wants one anyway? They are extremely pricey and only support DDR3 (that is even pricier!).

There are quite a few DDR2 versions, Asus and Gigabyte definatly have one.

[godsdog]

You should start to see the DDR2 boards kicking in a month/six weeks after initial launch. The DDR2 version of the Asus P5E3 Deluxe/Wifi-AP is the one I'm waiting to vet.
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[Acksaw]

What I hear from Asus is that the DDR2 boards will be surfacing first.. Then DDR3 a few weeks later.

[godsdog]

Maybe. Doesn't make much sense though from a marketing/bean counting perspective. The chipset is primarily for DDR3 and making use of what X38 has to offer natively. It'd make sense to push DDR3 first to get a toe hold and use a suck it and see approach, see how it's receieved, then manufacturers start adding in DDR2 boards just behind.

I hope you're right though, I need a DDR2 board (now) with a decent layout and some of these X38 designs fit the bill.

[crazy]

or release the ddr2 ones out first, and sell as many as they can due to the fact that ddr2 days are numbered

[godsdog]

There's life left in DDR2 yet and take up of DDR3 is slow due to price, but that will reverse. I suppose it's an individual manufacturers call to make, the Asus P5E3 Deluxe is already out of the traps.

[silentvoice]

Maybe. Doesn't make much sense though from a marketing/bean counting perspective. The chipset is primarily for DDR3 and making use of what X38 has to offer natively. It'd make sense to push DDR3 first to get a toe hold and use a suck it and see approach, see how it's receieved, then manufacturers start adding in DDR2 boards just behind.

I hope you're right though, I need a DDR2 board (now) with a decent layout and some of these X38 designs fit the bill.

It depends on the supply of chips they're getting from Intel. If they're trickling though, it would make sense (to me anyway) to release DDR3 boards first since they wouldn't be able to satisfy the demand for DDR2 boards and they can charge an extra premium with DDR3. If however output is high, then it would make sense to release DDR2 boards first as theres greater demand (to meet supply) and the product won't be sitting in inventory as long.

Regarding release date, on the Anandtech forums it has been stated by Gary Key (AnandTech Editor) that the date's been pushed back to October 11th - apparantly to "give the manufacturers time to stock the channels".