"Dave" said:
Nobody interested about the new board ?
I can find an Intel D975XBX for sale, but neither the Asus board
nor the Giga-byte.com.tw one seem to be available.
http://www.geizhals.at/a177408.html
Drooling is reserved for the early adopters, like in this thread.
These guys have more money to burn than your average USENET
participant. And Intel doesn't currently have a lot of mindshare,
except perhaps inside a Dell box.
http://www.abxzone.com/forums/showthread.php?t=98282&page=11&highlight=975x
Another place to look would be here:
http://xtremesystems.org/forums/search.php
"Wheres the 975 Boards??" - mentions January 2006...
http://xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=83243&highlight=975x
Even theinq has its own article.
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=28412
If a clearly better Intel processor happens along, and the power
dissipation is competitive, there might be more interest. Intel
shoots themselves in the foot, when they introduce so many different
versions of stuff. Marketing requires identity, and a prospective
home builder won't want to spend the time sifting through all
the variants. I mean, who would want to spend $500 on a processor,
and then discover they forgot to order the EM64T version, or
the version that supports virtualization, or the one with some
kind of enhanced cooling option or whatever.
Also, motherboard owners like to think their socket will be
good for more than one version of processor. Otherwise, the
processor might as well be soldered to the board :-( If Intel
cannot provide a clear story on sockets, that is another
disincentive.
I've got more Intel boards here than AMD, but I'm in no rush to
buy Intel right now. I am tempted to buy AMD, and really like
my previous purchase, the 3200+ Barton box. It is the quietest
computer I own.
Paul
