Gigabyte GA-X38-DQ6 Intel X38 DDR2 Crossfire Motherboard

Mike81 · Post by **Mike81** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 1:20 am

It looks like a beast!!!

Gigabyte GA-X38-DQ6 Intel X38 DDR2 Crossfire Motherboard

Shame it's a bit out of my budget, it seems to have every toy under the sun!!

ddrueding1 · Post by **ddrueding1** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 8:23 pm

Looks good. I just wish Gigabyte sold a MB with 3 16x PCIe ports...

NyteOwl · Post by **NyteOwl** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 9:01 am

Shame it's a bit out of my budget, it seems to have every toy under the sun!!

No RS232 or Parallel ;P

Seriously, even for a newer board, rather than 3 1xPCIe, another PCI slot and a 8x or 4x PCIe would be good.

yahui168 · Post by **yahui168** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 1:44 pm

It has a parallel and serial port header on the motherboard. It comes with a slotted I/O which you plug into the port headers. The disadvantage is that it takes up a back slot if you need to use it.

http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/Mot ... uctID=2665

JazzJackRabbit · Post by **JazzJackRabbit** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 1:51 pm

Too expensive and I don't like the layout, but I'm surprised to see an actual X38 motherboard for sale considering how long the chipset was delayed and with with DDR2 support too (intel is pushing hard to switch to DDR3 already).

oscar3d · Post by **oscar3d** » Sun Oct 14, 2007 1:50 pm

WARNING on this motherboard!

Did you guys see the huge heatsinks at the bottom of the mothermoard (the other side).

Thing is YOU WON"t be able to install any of our favorite CPU coolers in this mobo.

We won't be able to install a Ninja, nor a Thermalright Ultra.

I will have to pass on this one. Waiting for the Asus P5E3

ddrueding1 · Post by **ddrueding1** » Sun Oct 14, 2007 1:58 pm

You can put a Ninja or a Thermalright on it, you just need to do a custom bolt-on mounting for it. With the Ninja this is advisable anyway.

Sizzle · Post by **Sizzle** » Sun Oct 14, 2007 6:07 pm

You can get longer screws. I believe Gigabyte even has instructions on how to remove the backside crazy cool heatsinks for cpu heatsink mounting.

victorpst · Post by **victorpst** » Fri Oct 19, 2007 8:31 pm

this bad boy must be consuming a lot more power than P35 based solutions. anyone has any inputs on the power consumption of X38 chipset vs. P35 chipset in general and this board in particular?