Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3P Motherboard

[Kougar]

Reviewer: Mr. Gregg "The Gonz" Gonsowski

Date Published: July 9, 2007

Excerpt: "With the release of the Intel P35 chipset, GIGABYTE tries to set itself apart from the rest of the crowd by offering greater compatibilty for legacy hardware. Can they pull it off?"


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['Amp!']

This board was tested with the F4 BIOS.

[Raptorfury]

nice review . but you should also state that the p35 also supports the 45nm cpus

['Amp!']

Performance
Based on Intel P35 Chipset
Supports Intel Core 2 Extreme, Intel Core 2 Quad, Intel Core 2 Duo, Pentium and upcoming 45nm processors

[y0han]

I'm having a problem with this exact board.

Running CrossFire cards, system boots fine.
Enabling CrossFire in the CCC and running a game, the screen goes completely distorted and spins. If I disable Catalyst AI this problem doesn't happen but CrossFire doesn't seem to be helping anything:

3DMark2001:
Single GPU: 25657 3D Marks
Crossfire GPUs: 25591 3D Marks

Cards: Sapphire X1950 Pro 256Mb
Motherboard: This one.

BIOS is the latest.
Catalysts are the latest.

Sorry if this is in the wrong section I thought it would be most appropriate here :ahhhhh:

Any help is appreciated :smile:

[darkorb]

try 3dmark06 or somthing and see ur score, 01 is really old

[y0han]

try 3dmark06 or somthing and see ur score, 01 is really old

3dMark2006
1x gpu = 4885 3dmarks
2x gpu = 4673 3dmarks

[Kougar]

That is fairly odd. Are you sure both cards are receiving enough power to run correctly when using two of them?

Also one potential reason is the 2nd PCIe 16x slot is only "4x" physically. You may check and see if you can configure it to 4x mode in the drivers, but I would not know how as I do not have a PCIe ATI card to test with.

[Acidtears33]

I would suggest trying each card in the primary slot one at a time.
Make sure both cards are good and running fine and then start swapping them into crossfire mode.

[zachig]

Very nice review. Well done! :icon_tiphat: I would be interested to see now a detailed review on the DFI P35 mobo :grin:...and also XFX P35 review (if there will be any P35 to be released soon by XFX...HOPEFULLY ;-))

[Bio-Hazard]

I bet that you could buy 2 of the Gigabyte boards for the price of one of the DFI boards.........their prices have gotten way out of hand lately.

[zachig]

I bet that you could buy 2 of the Gigabyte boards for the price of one of the DFI boards.........their prices have gotten way out of hand lately.
Yeah, selling the DFI P35 for ~$300 is CRAZY, not talking about their X38, which is not out yet, and probably will cost much more...:frown:

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[Acidtears33]

I don't think you should look at the scores as a percentage. 7.5 paws is a good to very good rating. where saying it only scored 75% puts it as a poor score (using school system as a basis).

There are very few items that scores 9 and above and that's probably the way it should be.

If an item gets a 9+ then you would know it is a really great item. If the reviewers gave out 9's left and right no one would trust their opinion.