As reported representative Gigabyte in the interview with our associates, company is not going to wait until the release of the chipset family intel bearlake and it will introduce the official support to the frequency 1333 MHz FSB in motherboard on the base Of intel p965 express.
We are talking here about five models, produced now: GA -965P-Dq6, GA -965P-Ds4, GA -965P-DS3p, GA -965P-Ds3 and GA -965P-s3. At the end of January will be released the new revision of these motherboard : version 3.3. Obviously, these will be the first devices on the basis Of intel p965 with the native support of processors intel core 2 Duo e6x50, which will work at 1333- MHz FSB and they will be released in the third quarter: E6850 (clock frequency 3 GHz), E6750 (2,66 GHz) and E6550 (2,33 GHz). There is no excat data about the support of future 45- nm processors penryn.
According to the communication of Gigabyte representative, the performance of system with FSB, which works at the frequency 1333 MHz, will be approximately 5% higher than in system with FSB equal to 1066 MHz (with the equal CPU frequencies ). The performance of memory in this case increases by 10%.
If we believe the producer, the cost of motherboard revision 3.3 will not change in comparison with the previous versions.