I know its old news but I haven't seen much talk of the Intel 'Bear Lake' chipset that's supposedly debuting in the next 3-6 months. All I can say is *DROOL* Anyone else ready to snap this up when it debuts? Now that Intel is in the 'enthusiast' market with their D975XBX2 and I absolutely love mine (absolutely hated Intel boards prior except for end users since they're rock-solid but don't overclock or do anything fun) I can't wait to see specs for the BearLake based 'extreme edition' motherboard Intel has in the works.
QUOTE from another site: "Intel 'Bear Lake' aka X38 is the enthusiast top notch chipset scheduled for a Q3 2007 introduction. This is intended to replace the 975X chipset. It served us well but it lived too long. It cannot support DDR 2 memory at 1066, and we see that as a problem for enthusiasts. It supports PCIe 2.0, 2x16 PCIe graphic slots, DDR 3 memory at 1333 and a Quad core support. The high end chipset supports DDR 3 memory only so Intel wants to start the migration to DDR 3 only. It works matched with ICH9, ICH9R or ICH9DH"
QUOTE from another site: "Intel 'Bear Lake' aka X38 is the enthusiast top notch chipset scheduled for a Q3 2007 introduction. This is intended to replace the 975X chipset. It served us well but it lived too long. It cannot support DDR 2 memory at 1066, and we see that as a problem for enthusiasts. It supports PCIe 2.0, 2x16 PCIe graphic slots, DDR 3 memory at 1333 and a Quad core support. The high end chipset supports DDR 3 memory only so Intel wants to start the migration to DDR 3 only. It works matched with ICH9, ICH9R or ICH9DH"
probably not.
