The Gigabyte P35-DS3R Motherboard Review

Test Setup

Test Platform:

Test Platform
Component	Brand/Model	Live Pricing
Processor	Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 (2.4ghz)	Click Here
Motherboard	Gigabyte P35-DS3R Gigabyte GA-965P DQ6 rev 3.3 eVGA 650i Ultra DFI LanParty UT ICFX3200 EVGA 680i SLI 775 A1 Foxconn 975X7AB ECS PN2 SLI2+ Extreme Asus P5N-E SLI	Click Here Click Here Click Here Click Here Click Here Click Here Click Here Click Here
Video Card	ATI X1900 XTX	Click Here
Memory	Corsair C6400C4 2 GB kit	Click Here
Hard Drive	Western Digital 250GB, 16mb Cache	Click Here
Cooling	Corsair Nautilus	Click Here
Power Supply	PC Power & Cooling 750	Click Here
Operating System	Windows XP Professional w/SP2	Click Here

All tests were run using a clean install of Windows XP Professional with SP2. For our stock speed tests, we ran everything at default timings for the CPU. Our stock speed testing used Corsair DDR2 C6400C4 2 GB kit at 1.9 vDimm at DDR2 800. Timings for our overclocking were left 4-4-4-12 and 1.9v, but the ram divider was set to the lowest possible to take any ram issues out of the CPU overclocking. For the P35-DS3R board, we had to raised the timings to 5-5-5-18 and set the vdimm to 2.4 to be able to run the ram at over ddr1000 speeds. Vcore is set at 1.5v (actual) for overclocking. The video card was left at default timings as well for all tests. For this review, stability was determined by running our battery of tests, plus the ability to complete a SuperPi 32mb test run.