Two souped-up mobos tested: Asus P5K3 Premium and Maximus Extreme

Nebojsa Novakovic the Inquirer, Friday 9 November 2007. 19:22:00 Supertuned P35 vs SuperTalent-ed X38 chipsets INTEL HAS now shipped two major high end DDR3-based chipsets: the P35 earlier this year and, most recently, the X38. While the latter is claimed to be the ultimate top end, with components tuned and optimised even further, the only real difference most users see is having two full PCI-E x16 - version 2 at that - slots vs one x16 and one x4 slot in the P35. This makes the new chipset a far better choice for multi GPU or I/O intensive situations. However, the claim of X38 having better DDR3 memory performance - while logical, since it natively supports DDR3-1333 - should be put to the test....

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