I'm now fairly certain I won't get my grubby hands on an Asus P4G8X until January 2003. I've e-mailed quite a few suppliers and no-one has an ETA for this board and no info on it either. The major trade-only supplier I use (Ingram Micro UK) doesn't have it in their listings and they tend to have things listed weeks before actually selling them. There is no sign of this board at all in the UK and that makes me think it's not going to be here anytime soon.
Even in the US it's only being listed by Myinfinity and they are clearly playing the 'get a ton of pre-orders' game. What Myinfinity are doing is putting the P4G8X in their listings to get plenty of pre-orders and then putting their ETA date back a few days at a time so no-one gets upset and keep waiting instead. The fact that no-one else is listing the board looks like a clear sign that it's not due out anytime soon.
More worrying is that fact that they're not on sale in the far-east yet! They always get the new stuff well ahead of the US and Europe and I haven't seen a thing about availability there. Asus say the board is shipping, but where?? I've e-mailed pretty much every listed Asus e-mail address in the world but haven't received a single response yet (surprise, surprise).
Looks like ditto for Gigabyte. A forum member at OCUK got an e-mail from Gigabyte UK saying that they were planning on mass-producing their GB board in January 2003. Since Gigabyte UK don't make the boards they're probably talking about Gigabyte in general. The 2 French vendors who are listing the GA-8INXP must be 'doing a Myinfinity'.
Do you guys share my pessimism or do you think I'm a freakin' nut? No Granite Bay and no beer make Coz go crazy.
(hehe, I posted this same incoherent rant over at the overclockers.com forum).