Recently, Intel company presented the chipset x48 for high end desktop solutions, but the majority of overclockers prefers either to be satisfied with the existing chipsets (with lower price) or to wait until the appearances Of Intel p45. The important update In p45 will become the support of PCI express 2.0 and the ability to work in crossFire regime according to : PCI express x8 + PCI express x8. Compatibility with DDR-3 and DDR- 2 memory will be preserved. As show first tests, Motherboards on base of chipset Intel p45 are capable of overclocking rather well 45 nm processors.
But here for some reason Intel decided to delay the announcement Of Intel p45 . Some motherboard producers report that the announcement Of Intel p45 was reported from May to the middle of June.
It is asserted that the delay is caused by certain problems with the compatibility of chipset and graphic card with PCI express x16 interface . To eliminate the problem Intel require from 2 to 4 weeks . This Chipset will be announced at the beginning of June in Computex 2008, but mass deliveries will start some time later.