X-bitlabs reviews Asus P5E Intel X38 based motherboard
Today we are going to talk about a promising and relatively inexpensive solution from Asus based on Intel X38 chipset that supports DDR2 SDRAM and features PCB layout of a Maximus Formula.
I have to admit that the absence of articles on our site devoted to solutions based on the newest top core logic from Intel - X38 - is a serious omission. Ours labs have been desperately trying to get started on testing these products for over a month now. However, for a number of objective and subjective reasons we have yet failed to release any materials. For example, instead of this article destined to open a series of Intel X38 based mainboard reviews we were supposed to have an Asus P5E3 Deluxe mainboard review that has been sitting in our lab for a few weeks now. But although we have successfully used this board for our Intel Penryn tests (see our article called Second Iteration of Core Micro-Architecture: Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9650 CPU Review), we are not ready yet to offer you a fully fledged review of its features and functionality...
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