Gigabyte announces GA-965P-DS3

Gigabyte unveiled the newest edition to the DS series, the GA-965P-DS3 motherboard based on the latest Intel P965 Express chipset with support for the powerful and energy efficient Intel Core 2 Duo processor.

Designed using All-Solid Capacitors, this mainboard differentiates itself from other players in the market by providing enhanced durability to ensure longer system operation and added system stability under extreme conditions. The GIGABYTE GA-965P-DS3 allows mainstream users for the first time to take advantage of the overclocking and performance features usually reserved for high-end motherboards and comes equipped with a comprehensive set of overclocking BIOS options and the user-friendly software tools EasyTune5 and M.I.T to allow even novice users the ability to easily enable the highest levels of performance from their systems.

Leveraging the enhanced memory technologies featured in the Intel Core 2 Duo processor such as Intel Smart Memory Access with built-in memory disambiguation and advanced prefetchers as well as the Intel Fast Memory Access technology found in the Intel P965 Express Chipset, the GIGABYTE GA-965P-DS3 is able to support dual-channel DDR2 800MHz memory modules for lighting-quick memory access to significantly increase overall system performance.

Featuring the Intel ICH8 Southbridge, the GIGABYTE GA-965P-DS3 supports up to six SATA 3.0Gbs devices including support for eSATA, delivering external storage performance of up to 37 times that of traditional USB or 1394. Providing a complete storage solution with GIGABYTE SATA2 and PATA controllers to increase fault tolerance, improve data access performance and provide an additional interface for more IDE devices, the GIGABYTE GA-965P-DS3 further ensures important data is protected with support for RAID 0, 1, 0+1 and JBOD.

For the audio enthusiast, the GIGABYTE GA965P-DS3 features Intel High Definition Audio, with heart pounding 7.1 channel surround sound, to deliver the most natural and engrossing multimedia entertainment experience available.

Durability Enhanced
To ensure a longer lifespan for systems in daily operation while boosting system stability under extreme conditions, the GIGABYTE Durability Enhanced platform adopts cutting-edge Conductive Polymer Aluminum Solid Capacitors from the world's leading vendors. This "newest value-added" feature, is a design innovation only from GIGABYTE.

The Speed feature of GA965P-DS3 delivers outstanding performance and over-clocking ability to the desktop platform. This feature provides intelligent over-clocking with a wide range of frequency tuning for CPU/MEMORY/PCI-E bus speed and over-voltage with flexible voltage setting for CPU/ Memory/ PCI-E/Chipset. In addition, the GA-965P-DS3 features a complete range of performance tuning tools, such as C.I.A.2, BIOS Setting Recovery, and the latest Easy Tune 5 from GIGABYTE.

GIGABYTE Smart features make driver management much easier and user friendly with GIGABYTE proprietary software including Download Center, @BIOS, Q-Flash, Xpress Install, Boot menu, and Smart Fan. BIOS.

Safe is a key feature of GA965P-DS3 motherboards with the following elements: excellent hardware design, reinforced BIOS protection through GIGABYTE Virtual Dual BIOS Technology and GIGABYTE BIOS Setting Recovery Technology. Unique system software such as Xpress Recovery 2, PC Health Monitor, HDD S.M.A.R.T., and C.O.M. further strengthen the stability and reliability of your PC!

GA-965P-DS3 Main Specification

1. Supports Intel CoreTM2 Extreme / CoreTM2 Duo / Intel Pentium D processor
2. Intel P965 Express Chipset / Intel ICH8
3. DDR2 800/667/533 memory support
4. Dual Channel architecture support up to 8GB by 4 DIMM slots
5. ATX form factor, 305 x 210mm
6. Gigabit LAN Controller (Marvell 8053)
7. 1 x PCI Express X16 slot
8. 3 x PCI Express X1 slots
9. 3 x PCI slots
10. 6 x Serial ATA 3Gb/s
11. 1 x CD In connector
12. 1 x SPDIF In/ Out interface
13. 10 x USB 2.0/1.1
14. Realtek ALC883 8-Channel Audio Codec