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Gigabyte Motherboards - GA-X38T-DQ6 review

Let’s talk about chipsets. Intel introduced his family P31/P33/P35 Core 2 Duo chipsets six months ago, but left a vacuum at the top of the range Extreme chipset performance which would replace the venerable 975X Express.

The problem is that 975X supports dual ATI graphics cards in the crossfire, but has only two options for PCI Express. You can assign all 16 lanes to a single graphics card or splitting in two and give eight lanes for each card in the crossfire. That sounds bad but it does not present a bottleneck in the real world as PCI-E has a lot width of banda, however 975X is not compatible with the latest 1333MHz FSB, and certainly will not be compatible with Intel Next-generation 45nm CPU. Added to 975X which is twinned with the ICH7 Southbridge, it’s looking a little long in the tooth when it comes to the amount of USB 2.0 ports and support Sata.

You might think that the P35 is the answer to this particular problem, since it uses the latest ICH9 Southbridge and supports the 1333MHz FSB, but there is a significant problem here. Although you have seen P35 motherboards with two graphics slots, 20 lanes of PCI Express are assigned a fixed pattern with a full 16 lanes going into the slot graphics primary and the other four lanes for PCI-E x1 expansion slots.

If the plug in a second graphics card that shut down the PCI-E expansion slots, it is unfortunate that you’re actually using, and means that the second graphics card only has four lanes of PCI-E. That’s fine if you’re running dual Radeon X1600s, but if you have a problem X1900s in the crossfire and a serious headache if ha ido whole hog and use Radeon HD 2900XT cards.

It’s taken a long time, but enter stage left x38. This new chipset answers to all problems at once as it supports dual graphics slots and each receives a full 16 slots PCI-E tracks. In addition we are talking about PCI-E 2.0, which has twice the width of the original banda PCI-E, which will be useful when 2.0 PCI-E graphics cards go on sale. In addition, it supports 45nm Penryn processors and a 1600MHz FSB and, of course, has the ICH9 Southbridge.

This Gigabyte GA-X38T-DQ6 take maximum advantage of the new chipset and has four slots DDR3 memory that can accommodate up to 8 GB of memory 1600MHz DDR3, if you are running a 1600MHz FSB, meaning they will have to overclock or speed memory will be limited to 1066mhz or 1333MHz of your CPU.

We overclocked QX6850 CPU of a 1520MHz FSB 1333MHz to very easily and raised the FSB from a Core 2 Duo E6700 of 1066mhz to 1280MHz, which has a wide margin to overclock, however we have seen an increased yield of P35 and P965 motherboards.

Intel has taken the bold step of introducing some features with overclocking x38. There is support for XMP (Extreme Memory Profile), which works with compatible DDR3 memory that contains the configuration of the SPD to improve performance. The other tool is a piece of software called Intel Extreme Tuning utility, however our review shows not come with this software.

The main provision of the GA-X38T-DQ6 is very orderly, which is what we have come to expect from P35 boards. Like many manufacturers, Gigabyte specified heart ferrite chokes, solid aluminum MOSFETs and small, as well as a broad passive cooling system that unites the Northbridge and Southbridge with power regulation hardware.

Unfortunately locks for the memory slots are too close to the top slot graphics card and restraint devices graphics are very uncomfortable for liberation, when you have double-slot graphics cards. Added to the main connectors Sato requested cables feeding very close to your graphics card and the eight-pin ATX 12V power connector is hidden in very strongly behind the E / S panel.

We are also unhappy that there is no power LED on the board, which can not be sure if it’s safe to work inside your PC.

There is a long list of ports and connectors in the E / S panel, which is as good as there are no brackets in the package, apart from some Esat adapters that connect to a maximum of four of the eight internal connectors Sato.

In addition to the two legacy PS / 2 ports there are optical and coaxial audio connectors, eight USB 2.0 ports, a mini Firewire, six-pin Firewire, Gigabit LAN double and six audio mini-jack. If that is not enough, and you have the appropriate connections if any, are headed for another four USB ports and one Firewire.

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