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Gigabyte GA-P35C-DS3R Motherboard Review

GA-P35C-DS3R is a top mainstream motherboard from Gigabyte based on the Intel P35 chipset supporting both DDR2 and DDR3 memories, targeted to Intel socket 775 processors. Check it out.

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Main Specifications

Contents

  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Introduction (Cont'd)
  • 3. Main Specifications
  • 4. How We Tested
  • 5. Overall Performance
  • 6. Processing Performance
  • 7. 3D Performance: Quake 4
  • 8. Overclocking
  • 9. Conclusions

Gigabyte GA-P35C-DS3R main features are:

  • Socket: 775.
  • Chipset: Intel P35 Express.
  • Super I/O: ITE IT8718F
  • Clock Generator: ICS 9LPRS587EGLF
  • Parallel IDE: One ATA-133 port controlled by a JMicron JMB363 (“Gigabyte SATA 2”) chip.
  • Serial IDE: Six SATA-300 ports controlled by the ICH9R south bridge chip supporting RAID 0,1, 5 and 10 and two SATA-300 ports controlled by a JMicron JMB363 (“Gigabyte SATA 2”) chip supporting RAID 0, 1, JBOD and eSATA.
  • USB: 12 USB 2.0 ports (four soldered on the motherboard and eight available through I/O brackets, which don’t come with the motherboard).
  • FireWire (IEEE 1394a): No.
  • On-board audio: Controlled by the chipset together with Realtek ALC889A codec (7.1+2 channels, 106 dB signal-to-noise ratio, DTS Connect support).
  • On-board video: No.
  • On-board LAN: One Gigabit Ethernet port controlled by a Realtek RTL8111B chip (connected to the PCI Express bus).
  • Buzzer: No.
  • Power supply: ATX12V 2.x (24-pin)
  • Slots: One x16 PCI Express slot, three x1 PCI Express slots and three PCI slots.
  • Memory: Four DDR2-DIMM sockets (up to 8 GB up to DDR2-1066/PC2-8500) and two DDR3-DIMM sockets (up to 4 GB up to DDR3-1066/PC3-8500).
  • Number of CDs that come with this motherboard: One.
  • Programs included: Drivers and utilities.
  • More Information: https://www.gigabyte-usa.com
  • Average price in the US*: USD 150.00

* Researched at Shopping.com on the day we published this review.

Continue: How We Tested

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