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It’s time to have a look at a motherboard from Abit, based on the X38 chipset. This board carries the name ABIT IX38-QuadGT, and stands out from the Abit IP35 Pro with a new chipset and improved cooling. Everything else though is copied from the pre...
Reset button, Passive cooling, Good layout, Approved price, Performance...
Basic bundle, Not that innovative...
All in all this is a nice product to your hands on. The Abit IX38 QuadGT manages to impress but without bringing anything innovative to the scene. The large passive cooling profiles are relatively low and will allow most coolers to be mounted. During t...
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The IX38 QuadGT sells itself as a performance motherboard, with racing car imagery all over the box, but it doesn't offer many features to justify such a claim. Its most interesting trick is the OC Guru utility for Windows, which can automatically appl...
An appealingly upmarket board at a fair price...
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custompc.co.uk Updated: 2011-07-30 01:26:47
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The Quad GT, with its new digital VRMs, great layout and high FSB speeds, gets most things right for an overclockers motherboard. The use of an X38 chipset provides PCI-E 2.0 support, with 16 lanes supplied to two of the three graphics slots for full-...
The Quad GT, with its new digital VRMs, great layout and high FSB speeds, gets most things right for an overclockers motherboard. The use of an X38 chipset provides PCI-E 2.0 support, with 16 lanes supplied to two of the three graphics slots for full-...
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The IX38 QuadGT sells itself as a performance motherboard, with racing car imagery all over the box, but it doesn’t offer many features to justify such a claim. Its most interesting trick is the OC Guru utility for Windows, which can automatically appl...
An appealingly upmarket board at a fair price...
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There is no shortage of "GT" and "GTS" naming conventions for graphics cards and motherboards these days, which, much like sports cars, are supposed to attach a hint of speed and reliability to a particular product. How about a "Grand Touring" version...
Very good performance at its default speed settings; dedicated CMOS, power and reset buttons on the board, ran reliably with a 1520MHz front side bus (supports up to 1600MHz)...
uGuru utility was unstable in Windows, SATA ports might be inconvenient to use in some cases The Final Word This is very much a board for enthusiasts. It produced very good performance at its default settings and it is fairly easy to overclock, but it...
This is very much a board for enthusiasts. It produced very good performance at its default settings and it is fairly easy to overclock, but it didnt overclock as high as some other recent boards weve tried. All up though, its well built, has good f...
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A motherboard is not a motherboard, or is it? How does one manufacturer step out in front of another? Is the reason to buy one brand over another just a matter of the companys reputation, or is performance the determining factor? Many times the manuf...
Stable Voltages, True Dual 16x PCIE 2.0 Slots, External CMOS Clear, Efficient Cooling, Performance...
Hard Wall at 400 FSB (CPU); 500 FSB (Memory)...
With known commodities there are expectations to be met. Did the Abit IX38 Quad Gt meet those expectations? Yes and no. Does it run a super high FSB? Not yet. Does it run super high memory clocks? Not yet. But will it eventually? Probably! After shoot...
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The Abit IX38 Quad GT uses the enthusiast targeted X38 chipset combined with the ICH9R to bring consumers a whole new level of features and support. Among these are obviously the support for Intels newest CPUs based on the 65nm and 45nm fabrication...
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xbitlabs.com Updated: 2011-07-30 01:26:44
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abit mainboards do not need a special introduction. In fact, abit is the first contemporary overclocker brand. The company has gone a long way. They started off with the revolutionary in its principles but primitive in its looks SoftMenu that allowed j...
We were expecting something new and we got it. Unfortunately, new doesn’t always mean “better”. abit IX38 QuadGT mainboard is based on a new Intel X38 Express chipset, but its advantages are not that evident. They may matter more in the...
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3dGameMan.com Updated: 2011-07-30 01:26:49
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Video Review: The Abit Abit IX38 QuadGT Socket 775 Motherboard is based on the Intel X38 Express / ICH9R Chipset and supports the latest 45nm Intel Dual and Quad Core processors. It accepts up to 8GBs of Dual channel DDR2 1066/800/667/533 Un-buffered Non-ECC memory. Has six SATA 3Gigabit/s connectors capable of RAID 0, 1, 5 & 10The board comes with 6 fan headers. This board also uses Solid State Capacitors and has five phase digital Pulse Width Modulation (PWM). This improves performance, increase st...
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digital-daily.com Updated: 2014-01-24 01:37:21
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There are three PCI Express x16 slots on abit IX38 QuadGT. However, because of the chipsets limitations, the full-featured 16 bus lanes are allocated to the first and third (blue) slots only. For the second (black) slot, only 4 lanes are left. However, it...
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In recent times, Abit's QuadGT range has overtaken the company's MAX series as being the most popular with the overclocking community, simply because its combination of features and price strikes chords with the enthusiast crowd. The MAX is obviou...
The Abit IX38 QuadGT is a very solid and stable motherboard that overclocks very well and, as a result, it might appear to be an attractive proposition. Sadly though, it's let down by poor performance, a poor supporting package (which may not be a conc...
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