P4G8X -- Evan, please update us

[cliffa3]

i'm really wanting to be in the know on this apparent mishap with the p4g8x...what's the deal with them not releasing it?. Someone please let us know something...been waiting on this since the summer, was hoping foolishly to have one in by mid november.

 

[First]

It's not up to me to release the P4G8X. All I can say is that ASUS is late with this product, and that I have no idea what they plan on doing with the P4G8X in the future.

 

[THUGSROOK]

newegg now has the p4g8x-D listed but are out of stock.
should appear w/in a week.

i cant wait to get my p4m 1.7a on one of these things

 

[Thor86]

Originally posted by: THUGSROOK
newegg now has the p4g8x-D listed but are out of stock.
should appear w/in a week.

i cant wait to get my p4m 1.7a on one of these things

You can use a mobile chip in desktop mobos? Hmm, learn something new everyday...

 

[bgeh]

the mobile chips overclock pretty well
some can get them up to 215mhz fsb(on a desktop)

 

[THUGSROOK]

yea the mobile cpus run just fine on a desktop motherboard but they will revert to a locked 12x multiplier

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Originally posted by: THUGSROOK
yea the mobile cpus run just fine on a desktop motherboard but they will revert to a locked 12x multiplier

Damn! you are a tricky S.O.B.

 

[Surratman]

I talked to friendly rep. at the pre-sales dept. Asus yesterday about the lack of availability of their E7205 board (P4G8X). He explained to me that the lack of supply was caused by several factors but the biggest is that Intel was not supplying *any* MB manufacturers with enough chips to make any real quantity. Couple the Nov. 18 release of the board, Christmas, New Years, etc and the process slows down even more. He said that Asus had made about 1000 boards before Christmas but that is all. Now that the Holidays are over he expects Asus to start producing the AGP8X boards more aggressively this month and we should see them hitting the shores in a few weeks.

Since we're talking about the P4G8X, if you haven't read this article on Tom's Hardware page where they overclocked a P4 to 4 GHz on this board take a minute to do so. It?s an unrealistic scenario that most of us would never build but I think it helps sell the P4G8X as good board.


Tom's Hardware 4Ghz P4G8X