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Intel has put a lot of work into this chipset by the design of it, and with more on the way we can only hope things do get even better.

With the new Northbridge or MCH as Intel now calls them, a new Southbridge or ICH will be put into play. This is set to be the 9th generation of ICH so creatively it’s known as the ICH9. Intel plans to release four different variants, similar in design to that of the current ICH8 series - ICH9, ICH9R, ICH9DH and ICH9DO.One thing that was very limited in this silicon revision was its overclocking. All of the ICH9 series will support PCI Express 2.0 ports allowing for a doubling of bandwidth. One of the other major changes to PCI Express 2.0 is external plug in system, PCI Express 2.0 can be connected to external devices though standard copper cables up to 10 metres away. This will be extremely helpful for laptops who want to plug in an external graphics card, no more MXM modules needed, just a PCI Express 2.0 plug and your off and racing.

By default the motherboard supports 333MHz FSB but we only managed to get it to 350MHz and this wasn’t 100% stable. This wasn’t anything to do with the board itself, as our board was supplied with plenty of overclocking tweaks, just that the chipset is of first silicon and not ready for full release yet. The P35 is based on 65nm process technology and once it’s fully ready for public consumption, we expect it to perform as least as well as Intel P965 in FSB overclocking.

• EDIT:
  ECSP35T-A, G33T-M i Q35T-M Bearlake ploče
  
  Elitegroup Computer Systems, Inc. (ECS), will reveal their first Intel Bearlake-based motherboards at CeBIT 2007. The new P35T-A, G33T-M and Q35T-M motherboards feature the next generation chipsets and all these new motherboard chipsets are validated to perform flawlessly with the latest Intel® Core™2 Duo and Intel® Core™2 Quad processors. The P35T-A is designed for gaming and performance users, the G33T-M and its integrated graphics core is designed for the digital home and the Q35T-M brings more functionality to enterprise and office users.
  
  
  

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