14 DAY TRIAL // During the Intel Developer Forum that took place a few days ago, the largest processor manufacturing company in the whole world announced that its upcoming high performance aimed desktop chipset will suffer a slight delay and will only be launched on the 10th of October. The Intel X39 core logic chip will arrive with all the bells and whistles that are to be expected for a chipset aimed at the enthusiast desktop computer market like high frequency running frontside bus, PCI Express 2.0 support and DDR3 memory compatibility.
Like all high-end desktop chipsets, the X38 too comes with some overclocking friendly features and more importantly it was specially designed for overclocking as it comes with a software application written by Intel that should make all modifications very easy. ''Intel has developed a new chipset of platform technology called X38. [?] It will launch October 10th. We are shipping production parts to our customers today in anticipation of that launch,'' said Pat Gelsinger, chief technology officer at Intel Corp, who was cited by the news site xbitlabs.
According to the same site and a number of Intel previous reports, the X38 desktop chipset will pack all the latest technologies and innovations that Intel managed to integrate and develop in 2007, as it will natively support dual channel PC3-10600 memory modules running at 1333MHz that use the Intel Fast Memory technology, PCI Express 2.0 system bus that supports multi graphics cards setups as well as high overclocking flexibility which is derived from the presence of the extreme memory profiles (XMP for short) technology.
''Intel X38 has unlocked bus ratios, so they can crank [the speed] up. It has easy memory overclocking capability. We have doubled the bandwidth of the PCI Express Bus to graphics on the chipset. And we're incorporating [?] a new software tuning utility that allows you to tune directly to the BIOS to get the optimal system performance, so that you can win game benchmarks,'' Mr. Gelsinger said.
While the X38 mainboard chipset is expected to offer the very high computing performance available to date for the gaming and enthusiast communities, Intel already plans a replacement for this chip that will come in the form of the X48 chipset. Rather than being a completely new product, the X48 will be a revamped and enhanced version of the X38 core logic chip that will offer support for 1600MHz processor system bus as well as natively support for DDR3 memory modules running at 1600MHz and those features come on top of the list of features that are already available on the X38.