It didn't seem that long ago when Intel unleashed their enthusiast X38 chipset. In just a few short months, we now have the X48 trickling into the market. What has changed between the two? Not a whole lot as it turns out. All of the X38 features have carried over to the X48. The only real change that will affect the end user is the official support for the 400/1600MHz system bus. DDR3 will also get a bump to this speed and newer modules with XMP requiring 1.8v will also be supported. Sure, the X38 was capable of all of this in some motherboards (
http://www.viperlair.com/reviews/cpu.../index.shtml#), but the ability to manage this relied on the board vendors as well as the ingenuity of the user.
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*Review: Viperlair (
http://www.viperlair.com/reviews/cpu.../index.shtml)*
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