Buying this board will set you back by 200€ in Europe, this translates into app. 315$. The Cellshock kit cost another 280€, or 440$. Hence, you will have to pay 755$ for the mainboard and the memory alone, left aside the fact the 2GB of system memory are far from being considered enough for a high-end system today. Sounds a bit too much for me.

If I were to assemble a computer system today, I would definitely go for P35... However, If one could afford the waiting, Nehalem is the way to go - DDR3 is simply an overkill even for speeds above FSB400 with antique chipsets like these today. And with such prices, it's simply ridiculous.

Bar Graphs, please. I'd rather not read charts. Keep the reviews user friendly :).

Good investigation as always. Keep it up, X-bit labs.

I purchased a GA-EX38-DQ6 in March. Directly above the top PCIx16 slot there is upside down text with the board model number. Mine had a white sticker over the label with "GA-EX38-DQ6" on it. I peeled it off and the board was stamped with "GA-X48-DQ6."

A shiny new mobo for bragging rights...

A very detail review on this board, and sure enough makes me wants to get this board

Great review - as always.

Another total waste of money for a 'mine is bigger then yours' but only in the numbers............35/38 = 48

Anyone who wants to buy one go ahead, at least your overclock/epenis will increase...............but only in your own mind

Notice OPTIONAL: TURBO MEMORY. That sounds Cool.EXCEPT WORD OPTIONAL, WHICH I BELIEVE MSOT OF BEST ADVANCEMENTS GET FORGOTTEN UNLESS YOU DEMAND THAGT SPECIFIC MODEL ONLY, IF IT DID WORK.
Also what about Price, X48 Costs Lots More & is much more rekiabky bootable than micro chipsets proved. N.b. Bios? Yeah, I heard of them.

Signed:PHYSICIAN THOMAS STEWART VON DRASHEK M.D.

Hi all at X-bit.

I note in your review regarding the Gigabyte GA-X48T-DQ6 you state the following:-

The chipset doesn’t boast any significant advantages over Intel X38. as for the 1600MHz bus support that has been formally introduced in the new Intel X48, it is a pure marketing trick, since even older mainboards on Intel X38 can work just fine with the only CPU supporting this bus – Core 2 Extreme QX9770.

In fact in similar reviews on your website for other MoBo’s you make similar comments about manufactures over stating the FSB performance. I.E. a manufacturer states an FSB of say 1066 but in reality and from your tests you can only get approx 550 and this is when the board has been over-clocked.

I have clearly missed out on something here, what kind of a marketing trick is this?

What are the realities of FSB performance without over-clocking on say a board where the manufacturer states 1066FSB? How can they get away with this when reality is far from what they claim?

Sorry if I sound a bit thick but I am a newbie trying to understand the pros and cons and the terminology that you guys use

I'm curious to know why the GA-X48T-DQ6 wasn't compared to the GA-X38T-DQ6 for a direct comparison of the X48 and X38 chipsets.

so i still cant decide if an x48 is worth the extra bucks: that should be made clearer.
but good analysis.....

Quad bios its a fraud
I bought this mother, did a bios upgrade to ver. F5 and all went ok... but after a reboot entered a power cycling boot.
Im still looking for a solution