More info on P35

[cb62fcni]

http://www.anandtech.com/tradeshows/showdoc.aspx?i=2980&p=2

Looks like their NDA's don't expire until the 21st of May. This may or may not be the release date. The boards are looking sweet though, and MSI decided not to go with their sky blue/powder pink DIMM sockets, thankfully. All Anand will say is that they were "surprised" by P35's performance. Personally, I am guessing they were surprised in a bad way. The 965 was a darn good performer, so expecting that level of performance and NOT getting it would be surprising. I could be wrong of course. Anyone else got info?

 

[cb62fcni]

More news:

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=7131

 

[Jake_Barnes]

With Intel not setting a time schedule with motherboard makers about the sale of Bearlake chipset (P35)-supporting motherboards, the top four motherboard makers in Taiwan – Asustek, Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS), Gigabyte Technology and Micro-Star International (MSI) – all have their products ready to go, which should help the makers have a good start once the product is officially launched, and overall shipments should remain relatively flat sequentially in the second quarter, ahead of seasonality, industry players noted.

Bearlake to keep Asustek mobo shipments steady in 2Q
© DIGITIMES Inc

 

[MonocleCat]

Anyone think these will be shipping by june?

 

[cb62fcni]

Nice find. Looks like availability in June is likely. Any word on DDR3 availability?

 

[metrazol]

hehe. I can see the questions being asked already.

"Dawww, I have an MSI P35 Platinum. I have a 1 GB stick of DDR2-667 and another 1 GB stick of DDR3-1066..."

 

[Jake_Barnes]

ClubIT is selling these boards now:

GIGABYTE GA-P35-DQ6

$269.99 is more than I'm willing to pay.

 

[cb62fcni]

If the DQ6 is 270, then I imagine the DS3 will probably be around 160 or 170. Sound about right?