Intel DX38BT/DX48BT2 (Bone Trail)

[panzerino]

DDR2 does not work here!
Only the insane priced DDR3.

[Sandog]

Originally Posted by fvbounty

I know you must be having a itchy trigger finger on that board!!!!!!

I would already have it if it weren't for DDR3. I have had a great run on Intel boards getting the first release except for the D875PBX getting the regulator mod and replacing the BA1 with the BA2 to run C2D. Right now I am trouble shooting two of my Corair sticks and might have to get one stick replaced. If I have luck in selling some items I might try to upgrade to the X38.

[fvbounty]

Originally Posted by Sandog

I would already have it if it weren't for DDR3. I have had a great run on Intel boards getting the first release except for the D875PBX getting the regulator mod and replacing the BA1 with the BA2 to run C2D. Right now I am trouble shooting two of my Corair sticks and might have to get one stick replaced. If I have luck in selling some items I might try to upgrade to the X38.

Hopefully the price will come down on DDR3, off topic, how do you like your 3850's in crossfire?

[Sandog]

Originally Posted by fvbounty

Hopefully the price will come down on DDR3, off topic, how do you like your 3850's in crossfire?

Thanks for asking. Unfortunately the cards are on their way back to NE. The performance was not there. None of the benchmarks I ran came close to the single 8800GTS. That was not too disheartening though as drivers are new. What bothered me was game play. The screen in C&C3 would drag upon moving the mouse cursor across the screen and UT2K4's splash screen was even corrupted in XP (but not Vista). This game is dear to me and the last patch came out years ago. The IQ was great though with the new ATI cards. I just don't have the patience or guarantee that games will even run properly with two video cards. C&C3 and the Lightsmark 2007 benchmark should show good performance with these two cards but did not. I was expecting at least around 8800 GTX Ultra performance for the amount of power these cards were consuming. In a nutshell, a single NVidia cards works great with all games, IQ is very good, and they may be hot but at least the performance is always there.

[fvbounty]

Originally Posted by Sandog

Thanks for asking. Unfortunately the cards are on their way back to NE. The performance was not there. None of the benchmarks I ran came close to the single 8800GTS. That was not too disheartening though as drivers are new. What bothered me was game play. The screen in C&C3 would drag upon moving the mouse cursor across the screen and UT2K4's splash screen was even corrupted in XP (but not Vista). This game is dear to me and the last patch came out years ago. The IQ was great though with the new ATI cards. I just don't have the patience or guarantee that games will even run properly with two video cards. C&C3 and the Lightsmark 2007 benchmark should show good performance with these two cards but did not. I was expecting at least around 8800 GTX Ultra performance for the amount of power these cards were consuming. In a nutshell, a single NVidia cards works great with all games, IQ is very good, and they may be hot but at least the performance is always there.

That's to bad I had high hopes for Crossfire, I was thinking on Crossfire with 2x3870's but now I'll just wait for the G92 - 8800gts to come out in Dec.....

[SpeedDMN]

Originally Posted by Sandog

Here it is for $229 at TigerDirect.

Intel DX38BT Motherboard - FREE Copy of Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter 2 PC Game, Intel X38, Socket 775, ATX, Audio, PCI Express 2.0, Gigabit LAN, SPDIF, USB 2.0, Firewire, eSATA, RAID BOXDX38BT at TigerDirect.com

I was all hot for the X38, but the X48 is just too close in coming so I think I will hold out for it. I am waiting for the Nvidia 9 series to appear in GTX form anyway before I do the new rig. Some of it will depend on whether there is any real performance to cost difference. At the very least I imagine the prices for the X38 chipsets will drop after the x48 hits the street. There is a little on it here.

AnandTech: Intel X48 - Much Ado about Nothing....

Oh BTW, did you get your kickback check from Intel yet? I am still waiting for mine

[Sandog]

Originally Posted by fvbounty

That's to bad I had high hopes for Crossfire, I was thinking on Crossfire with 2x3870's but now I'll just wait for the G92 - 8800gts to come out in Dec.....

It can be difficult at times getting a new single card to work well with all your titles. Two cards require additional support. One thing I saw was that there is a very wide range of performance in games using two cards. In my short experience it varied from not working to having the same performance as a single card. I wasn't very impressed. For the amount of power I was using and the extra problems I encountered I feel it is better to go with a single top end card for now. I'll see how well the new ATI 2x670 card does but I am leaning with sticking to NVidia for now.

[ATINUT]

Originally Posted by Sandog

Thanks for asking. Unfortunately the cards are on their way back to NE. The performance was not there. None of the benchmarks I ran came close to the single 8800GTS. That was not too disheartening though as drivers are new. What bothered me was game play. The screen in C&C3 would drag upon moving the mouse cursor across the screen and UT2K4's splash screen was even corrupted in XP (but not Vista). This game is dear to me and the last patch came out years ago. The IQ was great though with the new ATI cards. I just don't have the patience or guarantee that games will even run properly with two video cards. C&C3 and the Lightsmark 2007 benchmark should show good performance with these two cards but did not. I was expecting at least around 8800 GTX Ultra performance for the amount of power these cards were consuming. In a nutshell, a single NVidia cards works great with all games, IQ is very good, and they may be hot but at least the performance is always there.

I suspected as much. ATI has gone down hill this year. I play a lot of skirmish's, me using GDI against the Scrin or NOD.

Hey guys, I ran two X1800's in Crossfire, they were ok, but no where near the performance of my two 8800GTS cards. This is why, I nevered bothered with getting a 975 board, when I came back to Intel and stuck it out awhile longer with Crossfire.

[Sandog]

Originally Posted by ATINUT

I suspected as much. ATI has gone down hill this year. I play a lot of skirmish's, me using GDI against the Scrin or NOD.

Hey guys, I ran two X1800's in Crossfire, they were ok, but no where near the performance of my two 8800GTS cards. This is why, I nevered bothered with getting a 975 board, when I came back to Intel and stuck it out awhile longer with Crossfire.

Anybody who bought 1 or 2 8800 series did a good job.

I will wait and see how the new ATI R680 (2xRV670) pans out. If it treats games like a single card (I doubt it) then I will consider it as long as power consumption is not too bad . At idle the new ATI cards perform like a mainstream card which is good. The new R680 is claimed to have up to %300 performance boost over the single RV670.

I considered going to a single HD 3870 card because IQ and drivers seem to be there but that would have been a downgrade in performance over my old 8800GTS. Alas ATI is headed toward dual core and multi-core cards with the future R680 and R700 so it will be a while before they work well like the old 1900XT's. To bad ATI couldn't have released a more powerful GPU comparable to the 8800 this time around but then again it was based off the 2900 XT.

[ATINUT]

Last time ATI tried dual GPU cards, was the Rage Fury Maxx, that thing was a piece of junk. There were only two supported drivers for it, first was the driver that came with the card, second was about 3 to 4 months after ATI had stopped making the card, they finally came out with, the second and final supported driver.

I owned at that time, and when I made the jump to Windows 2000, here I found out that the only way to use the card with Windows 2000, was to force the use of one GPU. After that I had the very first Radeon, which was a decent card.

I just wish ATI, would come out with a superfast videocard card, with a really powerful GPU, and have some really decent drivers. IF ATI would do this, I would consider switching back to ATI at some point.

[Purple Lizzard]

Originally Posted by SpeedDMN

I was all hot for the X38, but the X48 is just too close in coming so I think I will hold out for it. I am waiting for the Nvidia 9 series to appear in GTX form anyway before I do the new rig. Some of it will depend on whether there is any real performance to cost difference. At the very least I imagine the prices for the X38 chipsets will drop after the x48 hits the street. There is a little on it here.

AnandTech: Intel X48 - Much Ado about Nothing....

Oh BTW, did you get your kickback check from Intel yet? I am still waiting for mine

My thoughts as well !

I was about to pull the trigger on the Asus P5E3 when I started to read about the X48. Oh well just a little longer, maybe DD3 will come down a little, although that won't stop me.

[Sandog]

New IDCC for the X38/X48 boards.

Intel® Desktop Control Center

[Sandog]

The above comes with a new performance and burn in test from Passmark.

Flash Demo

Too damn cool, gotta have it

[traveler]

Originally Posted by Sandog

The above comes with a new performance and burn in test from Passmark.

Flash Demo

Too damn cool, gotta have it

Thanks for the link Sandog.

Will it work on an Asus board?

78°C for the CPU ???!!!??? Is that what Core 2 Extremes are doing???

[Sandog]

Hi Traveler,

Afraid not. It will only work on the X38/X48 and maybe the P35 Intel boards. This new version of IDCC along with the Passmark programs will not even run on my BA2.

78C is probably just random if you were heavily OCing.