Well, the x38's are out and frankly, I didn't really see them coming. I'm thinking that's maybe a shame. I've tried to educate myself on what seems to be the x38's main feature - PCIE 2.0 - and I just can't get a handle on how desirable this feature is going to be in the next 12-18 months, relative to the increased bandwidth this spec can provide video cards.
Having migrated to a GA-P35C-DS3R back in August, I thought I was hedging my bets both on 45nm CPU's and DDR3. And yeah, I HAVE done that, and I love this board, I really do. Now along comes PCIE2.0...
What I'm wondering is whether the GA-P35C-DS3R might, in fact, be PCIE2.0 capable anyway. You know, a hidden feature. I've never seen a straight answer from Gigabyte as to why they name certain boards ver 1.1 and then ver 2.0, without changing anything in the feature set or physically. Could it be that ver 1.1 is code for PCIE 1.1, and ver 2.0 is code for PCIE 2.0? And wouldn't that be a welcome surprise for ver 2.0 owners....
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