X38 for OC'ing Penryns

nzxtlexa

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hi crazymage,

The only difference I heard was that the memory timing are slightly better than P35, there's and improved bios suite and X38 can take PCI-E 2.0 and that it runs crossfire well.

So it may overclock a bit better than P35 but not hugely. Try typing X38 vs P35 into google and you'll get a few other discussions.

hope this helps


 

Crazymage

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I've tracked down a few discussions and it seems that it will come down to whether or not the X38's end up supporting 1600mhz fsb, is that correct?
 

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Well I've ordered an EVGA 8800GT already (just sitting here as I wait till Christmas to open it :) ) and my original plan was to step up to the 9000 series if it releases in my 90 day window. But I've been reading a couple of promising things about Xfire, so hopefully it matures enough for me to want to utilize the dual 16x lines
 

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If you are going to do a Penryn build, wait until its officially announced.

Intel is supposed to have P45 and X45 boards with official 1600FSB support.
My guess is these will OC the Penryn the best.
 

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And require DDR3 :(
 

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There is some news of a G92 based duel GPU graphics card that maybe released on Feb 13th 2008. So if it does come true you'll be able to step-up no problem.

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By systemlord at 2007-12-24