When I was working on P5B Deluxe boards, which also supposedly sports 8-phase power, I noticed that they used the Analog Devices ADP3198 synchronous buck controller. However, I've a funny feeling that it might not be so, despite the number of MOSFET "sets" and inductors.
#Intel q35 express chipset family uses series#
The current Q series may not be familiar to some readers.
All of these new chipset launches are considered by Intel to be the transition to 3 series chipsets, which will pave the way for Intel's move to the 45nm CPU architecture. There will also be a new value G31 chipset that replaces the current 946GZ and the 946GC.
#Intel q35 express chipset family uses full#
The G35 will likely be of interest to mainstream readers, and we plan full coverage of that launch. Still to come sometime in the 3rd quarter is the introduction of the X38 chipset, which replaces 975x, and the launch of G35, which will replace G965.
The official product launch will not happen until Computex which begins on June 4th. The Performance launch is today, May 21st, when reviewers can first talk about performance of the new boards. The P35/G33 OEM launch was scheduled for May 9th, which was the time OEMs were to receive those new chipsets. With the incredible confusion surrounding today's introductions, perhaps it is worthwhile to talk about what was supposed to happen in the series 3 Chipset launch. We will talk briefly about what is new, but reserve board testing to the new P35 Express chipset motherboards that will be of greatest interest to our readers. Since the 945G replacement will mostly be of interest to OEMs like Dell and HP, we will not be evaluating the G33 chipset in this launch review. Today is also the technology launch for the new Intel G33 Express chipset, a graphics chipset that replaces the 945G. Instead the decision was made to refine P965, improve a number of items in that existing chipset, and couple the new P35 Northbridge with a new spin on the Intel ICH Southbridge family to be known as ICH9/R. However, Intel could have pushed P965 to officially support 1333 MHz for both FSB and memory speeds and called it a day with a suffix. In the broad scope of events that would be a natural handle for the P35 introduction. The introduction of the new P35 chipset today will likely be remembered as the time when Intel fully embraces the 1333 FSB.