Chipsets : Intel X38 Express Chipset

The New X38 Express Chipset by Intel is a definitely a replacement to the old 975X. It is the new high end chipset by Intel that was released last September 23, 2007.

X38 Express offers a LGA775 platform for Intel processors. It holds a great support for the new Bearlake line of processors that will be released later on this year and early months next year. That includes Intel's Core 2 Extreme and Quad-cores. X38 Express has a PCIe 2.0 standard and supports a full speed processing of 2 ATI Crossfire Cards. X38 Express greatly supports DDR3 and DDR2 (as shown on the diagram).

Today, this is what Intel has to offer to us but it wont stop there. There are more better chipsets to come from Intel. Too bad, I'm a Nvidia Lover and might not like the Crossfire Platform. But it is rumored that it will have SLi Support for Nvidia SLi Cards. So far so good for Intel. DDR3 is growing more popularly now a days so I wont expect that this will be a High-End for Intel.