Well, it's been maybe a month since Intel released its X48 motherboard chipset as its top-of-the-line, flag ship chipset. Starting out, predictably, at pretty high prices ranging anywhere from $250 to $340 depending on whether the motherboard uses DDR2 or DDR3, the X48's have gradually settled in as a favorable motherboard chipset. And as DDR3 RAM prices continue to plummet, the X48's abundance in future machines grow at a slow but sure rate.
The Intel X38 motherboards are also continually growing in popularity as prices continue to decrease at a pleasant rate. The X38's can now be recommended even for people with budgets between low- and mid-budgets, somewhere in the vicinity of $800 to $950. X38's still support DDR2, so that is one of its reasons for its popularity. The other reason is the fore-mentioned growing popularity of DDR3 RAM. Many X38's also support DDR3 RAM, so it is more likely to gain more popularity through DDR3 RAM.
Now, that leaves us with the old but trusty P35's. You now might wonder: Are they still valuable? Will they still be used as abundantly as they used to be before the release of the X38 and X48 Intel Chipset Motherboards?
Well, they will still be valuable, but will be targeted naturally at more low-budget computer builders. As X38's and X48's become more abundant, the prices of the P35 motherboards will also decrease, because there are now newer, better chipsets. The P35 will continue to exist as an excellent chipset with excellent features, but will now retire to the lower-budget field. That does not necessarily mean it has lost its overall value. It simply has inherently shifted its position in the market.
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