ok the blitz has a problem... the second pciex slot is PCIE 1.0 and not 1.1 and therefore u can only use PCIE 2.0 cards on the first pciex and not the second hence.. geee kindda stupid... but they had their reason cause of the crosslink which was brilliant idea ...

x38 performance .. hmm so far nothing great.. it has a difficult task of beating the blitz.
and yes the intel what ever profile thingy is on the x38 mobos...
the maximus supposedly has a x48 chipset on it also which is supposedly a higher bin/handpicked x38.
also x38 runs full 16x electrical pcie's.. so its pros for card.. cons for southbridge.. heato.


i think by now u would have known this is not going to happen..
only way is a hybrid mobo with mcp72 etc.
the octa core is just a workstation mobo's and usually they have a funny chipset and nvidia gives out special drivers for tesla and quadro that doesnt limit them to chipset mobo..

well so far the x38 has been out clocking the p35 by about 4~5 mhz.. and after more tweaking this would probably increase... and iinm pcie 2.0 is fully backwards compatible .so no problems there..

bro leaked drivers lolz.. at least we knw its possible.. and it oculd be for all we knw.. but its be a big oportunity.. though i doubt that will happen anytime soon  from nvidia side of things. they are launching their new chipset

haha i meant in the future.. some one who has accest o the quatro sli machines.. maybe they are enthusiast and leaked a driver or two out..

so does this mean x38 chipset is ready for sli? btw got any spec for maximus formula?

actually im quite curious as to whether they solved the sata probslems plaguing the P35 boards...not saying all boards but seen enuf to make me think twice...another thing is whether the sata ports can be individually set to either RAID/AHCI or IDE...that would really help ppl running raid plus adding in a sata ODD

Yo cables, nonid so worried lar. Asus all along very stable 1. Coz they never use reference designs. That's how they avoided the HDD corruption probs that afflicted all other n680i mobos last time oso.  Anyway, u got too many HDDs ler. Faster take out 1 of the Raptor 150 n sell to me. 

well so far the x38 has been out clocking the p35 by about 4~5 mhz.. and after more tweaking this would probably increase... and iinm pcie 2.0 is fully backwards compatible .so no problems there..

bro leaked drivers lolz.. at least we knw its possible.. and it oculd be for all we knw.. but its be a big oportunity.. though i doubt that will happen anytime soon  from nvidia side of things. they are launching their new chipset

does this mean pcie 2.0 compatible only with 1.1 and not 1.0?

Nvidia probably won't allow anything on non-nvidia chipset unless Intel agreed to include at least one core logic on the system. Basically X38 with Nvidia mcp on the same board just like what we see on skulltrail previously showed on IDF. Apparently, there is no technical reason why X38 cannot support SLI on its on without nvidia MCP.  It is more on the Nvidia side to say yay or nay.
The initial release of X38 based motherboard with no official SLI support. The later version of it which include nforce mcp that will support SLI.

well if using mcp i think it still will... nvida and crossfire cabpable.. and if the performance is solid.. that would probably be one of the best mobos evermade

the mobo is sexy,but i think a lot of ppl cant afford to pay for the price

can see that X38 is very hot chipset,all the NB got watercooled or else cooled by giant heat sink.