X38 Launch & Gigabyte X38-DQ6 Quad Review - PAGE 4
William Henning - Wednesday, October 10th, 2007
The Gigabyte X38-DQ6 Quad is definitely a high-end motherboard.
- Supports 1333MHz AND 1600MHz FSB
- All solid state capacitors and ferrite core chokes
- All-copper Silent Pipe and Crazy Cool cooling solutions
- Supports PCIe 2.0 dual x16 slot AMD CrossFire
- Quad eSATA2, quad bios, quad triple-phase power
- Dual gigabit lan
Whew. You will find a complete copy of its specifications straight off the Gigabyte site below.
The Gigabyte X38-DQ6 is a performance motherboard -- and it defintely looks the part.
The Bundle
What can you say about any motherboard bundle?
Here we have two slot covers with the eSATA connectors, the ATX I/O back plate, four SATA2 cables, an IDE cable, floppy cable, quick assembly guide and driver/utility CD. And a case sticker of course.
Specifications
| Processor |
- Support for an Intel® Core™ 2 Extreme processor/ Intel® Core™ 2 Quad processor/ Intel® Core™ 2 Duo processor/ Intel® Pentium processor Extreme Edition/ Intel® Pentium D processor/ Intel® Pentium 4 processor Extreme Edition/ Intel® Pentium 4 processor in the LGA 775 package
- Support for Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology
- Support 1600/1333/1066/800 MHz FSB
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| Chipset |
- Northbridge: Intel® X38 Express Chipset
- Southbridge: Intel® ICH9R
- T.I IEEE 1394 Controller
- Gigabit Lan Controller
- 8 Channels ALC889A Audio controller
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| Memory |
- 4 x 1.8V DDR2 DIMM sockets supporting up to 8 GB of system memory
- Dual channel memory architecture
- Support for DDR2 1066/800/667 MHz memory modules
* Please refer "Memory Support List" for memory support information. |
| Expansion Slots |
- 2 PCI Express x16 slot (Support PCI Express 2.0)
- 3 PCI Express x1 slots
- 2 PCI slots
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| Form Factor |
- ATX form factor, 305 x 244mm
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| Internal I/O Connectors |
- 1 x 24-pin ATX main power connector
- 1 x 8-pin ATX 12V power connector
- 1 x 4-pin PCIe 12V power connector
- 1 x floppy disk drive connector
- 1 x IDE connector
- 8 x SATA 3Gb/s connectors
- 1 x CPU fan header
- 2 x system fan headers
- 1 x power fan header
- 1 x North Bridge fan header
- 1 x front panel header
- 1 x front panel audio header
- 1 x CD In connector
- 1 x S/PDIF In header
- 1 x S/PDIF Out header
- 2 x USB 2.0/1.1 headers
- 1 x IEEE 1394a headers
- 1 x parallel port header
- 1 x Trusted Platform Module (TPM) header
- 1 x serial port header
- 1 x power LED header
- 1 x chassis intrusion header
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| Rear Panel I/O |
- 1 x PS/2 keyboard port
- 1 x PS/2 mouse port
- 1 x coaxial S/PDIF Out connector
- 1 x optical S/PDIF Out connector
- 8 x USB 2.0/1.1 ports
- 2 x IEEE 1394a ports
- 2 x RJ-45 port
- 6 x audio jacks (Center/Subwoofer Speaker Out/Rear Speaker Out/Side Speaker Out/Line In/Line Out/Microphone)
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| BIOS |
- 2 x 8 Mbit flash
- Use of licensed AWARD BIOS
- Support for Dual BIOSTM
- PnP 1.0a, DMI 2.0, SM BIOS 2.3, ACPI 1.0b
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| Other Features |
- Ultra Durable 2 Motherboard
- All copper Silent Pipe and Crazy Cool
- All Japanese manufactured solid capacitors with SMD (Surface Mount Device)
- Over-clocking Enhanced
- Support for @BIOS
- Support for Download Center
- Support for Q-Flash
- Support for EasyTune
- Support for Xpress Install
- Support for Xpress Recovery2
- Support for Virtual Dual BIOS
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| Remark |
- Due to different Linux support condition provided by chipset vendors, please download Linux driver from chipset vendors' website or 3rd party website.
- Due to most hardware/software vendors no longer offer support for Win9X/ME. If some vendors still has Win9X/ME drivers available, we will publish on website.
- Duo to chipset limitation, Intel ICH9R RAID driver does not support Windows 2000 operating system.
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