Gigabyte P35C-DS3R Intel p35 DDR2/DDR3 mainboard review intro

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Gigabyte P35C-DS3R is Gigabyte's hybrid product based on the Intel P35/ICH9R chipset. The brand new motherboard support for Intel upcoming 45nm Core 2 multi-core processors. The P35C-DS3R supports support COMBO memory DIMM slots -both DDR2 and DDR3 for great flexibility. With Dual Channel DDR3 1066 and Dual Channel DDR2 1066 for outstanding system performance can be attained as you can scale from DDR2-1066 to the future DDR3-1600 or higher in the future.

The board features Ultra Durable 2, a feature that highlights the High Quality CPU Power design with Ferrite core chokes, Low RDS (on) MOSFET and Solid Capacitors. These durable Capacitors take advantage of Japanese manufactured solid capacitors for enhanced system durability.

http://www.ocworkbench.com/2007/giga...5C-DS3R/g1.htm

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A nice little cheaper version of it's big brother, the Gigabyte P35C-DS3R mobo I definitively like the design. 6 phase Vcore is not the 12 phase of the Gigabyte P35C-DS3R, but it is still way better that most other companies do
The DDR2/3 combination is brilliant and I bet we see almost similar performance with the tests - once they are done and online

PS. anyone is haing any idea, if Conroe can survive 2.0Vcore? I dubt that, since my Opty died right away when I set 2.0Vcore by accident... And my Opty 148 default Vcore is 1.40V. Conroe are 1.35 (IIRC?) or lower, so... Anyone have any idea, how far the Conroe can go with voltages? I using 2.0Vcore like a normal Vcore for AXP when overclocking badly, but... this is a old sturdy CPU