Did you check if the 8800GT was running at PCIe Gen2 5Gbps? Or was it still running at the old Gen1 speed of 2.5Gbps? My main beef with the Gigabyte X38-DQ6 is that the stupid system BIOS refuses to train the link to 5Gbps when a Gen2-capable graphics card is used. The link speed always remains at 2.5Gbps. These X38 motherboard manufacturers simply do not know how to properly recognize and configure a Gen2 graphics card at Gen2 speed - either Intel conveniently forgot to show them how to do so in the system-BIOS or their sBIOS engineers were asleep in class when Intel was teaching them how to do it.

i prefer my reviewers not make excuses for the product.

I've bought that mobo couple of days ago and pwm cooler brackets were included.
Cheers from Poland.

Nice test, two main points are incorrect though:

I own this board and have the following experience:

- Power saving works if you increase CPU voltage only over the OFFSET-Funktion !!!

- IF you increase the MCH voltage to 1.30 to 1.35 V the Memory works rock stable at its advertised Timings (6 hours Prime Blend)

(C2D @ 3,24 GHz, Mem at 540 MHZ (Transcend DDR 1200) at 5-5-5-18-2T (2/3 divider) This is my 24/7 setting, have not tested further yet

the article talks about the board getting hot after only 4 minutes. Is this after overclocking or just running under normal conditions?