Intel X38 High End Chipset Launch and Benchmarks

MojoKid writes "Though many leaks of the product have been circulating for some time, Intel officially took the wraps off and launched their new X38 Express chipset for the high-end desktop motherboard market. With this launch, the Intel desktop chipset line-up gets a new flagship. Intel's new X38 chipset encompasses all of the technology advances that have made the P35 a success and adds a slew of new features designed to increase memory and graphics subsystem performance, like PCI Express 2.0 SerDes and Intel Extreme Memory technology in the new X38 MCH. The Asus motherboard tested by HotHardware even features an embedded Linux-based OS that boots in a matter a seconds."

Comments

Re:Apple next?

[Joe The Dragon]

we more likely to see a g33 / g35 system from apple to replace the mini with on board video and x16 and x4 pci-e slots.

And apple will making a dumb move by going with over priced DDR3 that is not much faster then much cheaper DDR2 ram.

Re:DDR3 ECC supported!

[morgan_greywolf]

Mod parent up, informative! My cheapass motherboard supports ECC DIMMs, but does not make use of the ECC features. There's no way to know whether it'll use the ECC feature unless you either A) try it and see (hard to do), or B) Intel tells you it does (in which case you have to accept their word for it.)

It seems to me that a high-end motherboard chipset should support ECC features, but that doesn't mean that it does.

Re:I thought high end meant Xeon?

[tjstork]

It's a high end Desktop chip, Xeon are server chips.

You can have a Xeon desktop. Hell, I have a dual Opteron desktop. It would be called a "workstation".