ASUS Prepares X38 Express Motherboard

It was revealed last week that Intel’s X38 chipset would be dropping next month, and DailyTech once again has the scoop on ASUS’ first entry, the P5E3. We’ve taken a look at many ASUS P5 boards and have been left impressed, so we expect no less of the P5E3 once we receive it in our labs. This version of the board requires DDR3, but it’s expected that ASUS and others will release X38 boards with DDR2 support, although it won’t be by Intel’s direction.

ASUS opted to implement two PCIe x16 slots for ATI CrossFire multi-GPU support. Unlike some other X38 Express based boards with three PCIe x16 slots, the ASUS P5E3 Deluxe is unable to take advantage of three-way or even four-way ATI CrossFire configurations. However, in exchange for less PCIe x16 slots, the ASUS P5E3 Deluxe has three standard PCI slots. The P5E3 Deluxe also has two PCIe x1 slots.

Source: DailyTech