Intel DX38BT X38 Motherboard - TrustedReviews
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"We overclocked manually and found that the DX38BT simply didn't want to play ball with our QX9650. We used the MSI X38 Diamond for comparison and found that it would happily run at 3.51GHz on a 390MHz front side bus but the Intel board would only allow us to raise the clock multiplier by one step. Raising the front side bus by more than a handful of Megahertz was a distinct no-no which rendered the overclocking features a trifle irrelevant.
This sums up the DX38BT in a nutshell. If you're running a Kentsfield processor there's no reason to move to from P965 or P35 to X38 and if you have any plans for a 1,600MHz Penryn processor the Intel DX38BT won't work. If you're happy with a QX9650 at near-stock speeds then the DX38BT is a winner but that feels like a small and exclusive club.
Perhaps that explains why the DX38BT is relatively cheap compared to other X38 models on the market and it even comes with a copy of Ghost Recon Advance Warfighter as an added bonus.
Verdict
Intel has rather shot itself in the foot by giving us a sniff of the 1,600MHz QX9770 processor as it effectively made the DX38BT obsolete before it went on sale. It's a decent bit of kit that looks the part and delivers rock-solid performance but it's time has already passed."
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