4 - Intel

Intel

The Intel booth was just huge, you'll definitely see loads of reports about them at other sites as well. Every market segment was covered, the one thing missing though was the upcoming Nehalem processor on public display. Ah well .. they did show a number of overclocked processors as well .. tssk show-offs.

This for example is an Asus X48 mainboard which had an QX9770 processor overclocked towards 4200 MHz. Look at the dual-cooler there, by the way. Nice!

What? You didn't believe me...? Four GHz is a pretty easy job to do quite honestly.

Also on display this Gigabyte based system with a mainboard close to the GA-X48-DQ6 mainboard we recently reviewed. If I recall correctly is was slightly slower overclocked at 3.8'ish GHz. Which actually matches our experiences as well.

And yeah, a lot of manufacturers make Intel based mainboards :)