Synthetic, Continued
Positions change for a third time in Sandra's Whetstone iSSE2 test, with the Maximus Extreme leading at default speed and the GA-X38T-DQ6 taking the overclocking victory.
Gigabyte's GA-X38T-DQ6 clock lead claims victory in both of Sandra's multimedia tests, but second-place MSI falls to fifth position when overclocked.
Asus' top memory stability puts the Maximus Extreme in first place for both of Sandra's bandwidth tests. It's a shame that the other X38 motherboards couldn't live up to the high standards set by their P35 predecessors.
RTX 5090D tested with nine-years-old Xeon CPU that cost $7 — it does surprisingly well in some games, if you enable MFG
Threadripper 7000 is the most reliable CPU as per Puget Systems stats — Nvidia RTX Ada Generation GPUs have the lowest failure rates
Intel Panther Lake and Wildcat Lake CPU specs break cover — leak suggests up to 16 CPU cores and 180 total AI TOPS
