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Gigabyte GA-X38-DQ6 @ TweakTown
“While this was good, the enthusiasts still needed a higher grade chipset. Enter today’s contender, the X38. The new X38 chipset is designed to take over where the aging 975X chipset leaves off. Its abilities have been tweaked as well as some extra goodies. So let’s have a look at our first retail sample board, Gigabyte X38-DQ6.”
Biostar TP35D2-A7 & TP35D3-A7 Deluxe @ X-Bit labs
“We would like to discuss two new Biostar solutions on Intel P35 Express chipset: one for DDR2 and another for DDR3 SDRAM. The remarkable thing about these products is that Biostar has put a lot of effort in creating an affordable mainboard for overclockers with excellent PCB design and rich features. Let’s find out how good these solutions turned out.”
ASUS Blitz Extreme P35 @ Neoseeker
“The Asus Blitz Extreme is quite worth its $290 to $300 dollar U.S. selling price. It could make a pretty good single GPU gaming rig and a more than decent office/productivity machine. More PCI-e lanes would have been nice, but Asus did do something quite unique with Crosslink…”
MSI P35 Diamond @ HardwareZone
“MSI takes their latest DDR3 P35 board to new heights with the P35 Diamond, complete with the bundled VoIP hardware and Creative X-Fi Xtreme Audio sound card. An excellent motherboard with great performance that should not be overlooked, but is it worth it? Find out inside.”
ASUS Blitz Formula Special Edition @ HardwareZone
“ASUS plays the role of manufacturer and enthusiast modder with their new Blitz Formula Special Edition motherboard, featuring a hybrid water-cooled Northbridge and proper CrossFire support on an Intel P35 chipset. Throw in great overclocking and performance and you’ve got this year’s best P35 motherboard.”
Foxconn G33M @ TweakTown
“With the Intel 3 series chipsets, things have changed; thanks to Vista new features are required to get a motherboard certified for Vista validation, and Intel is definitely one to strive for this. The G33 chipset is the latest instalment from Intel, and it’s designed for the Vista environment using its onboard graphics system, the GMA3100.”
ASUS P5KR @ OZ Hardware
“ASUS’s P5K range of motherboards based on the new Intel P35 chipset comes in a range of flavours, from the very basic to the super-loaded, today we take a look at the P5KR, which seems to offer a good number of features for not a lot of money.”
Biostar T-Force TP35D3-A7 Deluxe @ OC Online
“We have taken a rather intense look at the Biostar TP35D3-A7 Deluxe and there have been plenty of highlights along the way. The looks and layout were not the only impressive points. The system performance was easily on par if not better than another P35 DDR2 based motherboard and the hard drive performance was certainly “playing ball” with all contenders.”
Gigabyte GA-X38-DQ6 @ HardwareZone
“The Intel X38 chipset has arrived featuring full speed PCIe x16 CrossFire support and introducing PCI Express 2.0. The Gigabyte GA-X38-DQ6 is the first retail-ready enthusiast class motherboard based on this new chipset to reach our labs and we’ve got the full scoop right here.”
ECS NF650iSLIT-A @ FutureLooks
“Our friends at ECS are back with a performance board for the more budget conscious users. Based on NVIDIA’s 650i chipset, the ECS NF650iSLIT-A offers much of the performance of its 680i brothers but with fewer tweaking features, smaller bundle, and of course, a lower price. Let’s check it out!”