Gigabyte GA-X38-DQ6

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Price

AU$389.00

Review Date

Monday, 17th of September, 2007

What's Hot

Well built, almost-silent operation; 1600MHz FSB speed; flexible overclocking options; it has support for Intel's upcoming 45-nanometre CPUs; it's based on DDR2 RAM

What's Not

It ships with four eSATA ports, but they need to be plugged in to four of the eight internal ports in order to work; it has only two full length PCIe slots

The Final Word

Gigabyte's X38-DQ6 is very well built, has very good connectivity options and was stable in our tests. It still supports DDR2 RAM, and it will be able to handle 45-nanometre CPUs as soon as they are released. If you're after a high-end board, it's definitely worth a look.

General

Motherboard Form Factors

ATX

Graphics Card

Graphics Card Interface

PCI Express x16

Memory

Maximum memory (RAM)

8 GB

RAM Type

DDR2

Number of DIMM Slots

Motherboard

Processors Supported

Pentium 4 Extreme Edition, Intel Quad-Core, Intel Pentium D, Intel Core 2 Extreme Quad-Core, Intel Core 2 Duo, Intel Pentium Extreme

Maximum Number of Processors Supported

Processor Socket Types

Socket 775

Chipset

Intel X38 Express

Motherboard Form Factors

ATX

Bus Speed

1600/1333/1066/800MHz

Storage Interfaces Supported

DMA/ATA-100 (Ultra), Serial ATA, SATA II

RAID Supported

Yes

Network Card on Motherboard

Yes

SATA RAID Levels Supported

0, 1, 5

PC Expansion Slots

Expansion Slots

PCI, PCI Express x1, PCI Express x16

Number of PCI Slots

Number of PCI Express x1 Slots

Number of PCI Express x16 Slots

Wired Connections

Wired Terminals / Ports

Line level out (Front / Side / Rear / Center), External SATA, Coaxial Digital Output, Firewire, Line In, Line out, Microphone Jack , Optical Digital Output, PS/2 Keyboard, PS/2 Mouse, RJ45, USB 2.0

Number of Coaxial Digital Output Ports

Number of Firewire Ports

Number of Line In Ports

Number of Line Out Ports

Number of Microphone Ports

Number of Optical Digital Output Ports

Number of PS/2 Keyboard Ports

Number of PS/2 Mouse Ports

Number of RJ45 Ports

Number of USB 2.0 Ports

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