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Gigabyte 965P-DS3

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PCQ Bureau
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This motherboard supports Core2 Extreme Quad Core. It has FSB support of

1066/800/533 MHz and has 4 DDR II DIMM memory slots that support up to 8 GB of

memory. It has onboard Realtek ALC833 audio chip which supports high definition

audio. Along with these things, it has 1 PCI Express x16 slots, 3 PCI Express x1

slots and 3 PCI slots, and also has SATA II interface with RAID support. Plus it

has 3 USB connectors. However, it does not have onboard graphics, so you will

have to buy that separately. But it also gives you the freedom to choose any

graphics card and enjoy gaming. It seems that no onboard graphics is deliberate

and the motheboard is primarily targeted at the gamers only.

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We have tested this motherboard with 1 GB RAM, 120 GB HDD, Intel Core 2 Duo

1.8 GHz and with Nvidia GeForce 6600 GT graphics card. After running different

benchmarks on this system the result was satisfactory. It scored 3149 on PCMark

06 and on 3DMark 05, it scored 1942 3DMarks. Well, let's have a look on other

benchmarks to see its dual core performance; it scored 266 CB-CPU on single core

and 497 CB-CPU on dual core usage on CINEBENCH 9.5. And in the POV Ray test, it

scored 92.73 PPS.

Bottom Line: Overall a good board, but without graphics. While, some

other boards in its class offer the same.

Price: Rs 9,000 (3 yrs

warranty)



Key Specs: Vista ready, dual core support, RoHS compliant,
Socket 775



Contact: Gigabyte Technology India, Mumbai


Tel: 26526696, E-mail: sales@gigabyte.in


Website: www.gigabyte.in


SMS Buy 130489 to 6677



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