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x38 Chipset

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Two quick questions:

1) Does the x38 chipset support the 45nm CPUs coming out in 08? Something like this motherboard? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131219
yes it does so does P35 boards... NV680i only supoort 45nm dual cores though.

2) With the motherboard I linked above, I see the PCI Express ports are 2.0 16x. What is the 2.0 about?

Thanks
its a new pcie spec that adds a bit more power and bandwidth to PCIE.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI_Express
 
1. Yes.

2. Just the new spec, not really a big deal. It is backwards compatible with the old tech. Not even close to being needed right now.
 
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