1. Supports Intel® Core™ 2 Extreme Quad Core / Core™ 2 Duo / Intel® Pentium® D processor
2. Supports Intel Core™ 2 Duo processors with FSB1333
3. Supports Microsoft Windows VISTA Premium
4. Supports Dual channel DDR2 800 memory
5. Features PCI-E graphics interface
6. Features SATA 3Gb/s interface with RAID function (2 ports with RAID function supported by GIGABYTE SATA2)
7. Intel High Definition 8 Channels Audio
8. Optimized Gigabit LAN connection
9. Industry's leading all solid capacitor motherboard design
Specifications
BIOS:
1. 1 4 Mbit flash ROM
2. Use of licensed AWARD BIOS
3. Supports Virtual Dual BIOS
4. PnP 1.0a, DMI 2.0, SM BIOS 2.3, ACPI 1.0b.
1. 1 24-pin ATX power
2. 1 4-pin ATX 12V power connector
3. 1 floppy connector
4. 1 IDE connector
5. 6 SATA 3Gb/s connectors
6. 1 CPU fan connector
7. 1 system fan connector
8. 1 front panel connector
9. 1 front audio connector
10. 1 CD In connector
11. 3 USB 2.0/1.1 connectors for additional 6 ports by cables
12. 1 SPDIF In connector
13. 1 power LED connector
14. 1 Chassis Intrusion connector
Rear Panel I/O:
1. 1 PS/2 keyboard port
2. 1 PS/2 mouse port
3. 1 SPDIF Out connection (coaxial+optical)
4. 1 parallel port
5. 4 USB 2.0/1.1 ports
6. 1 serial port (COMA)
7. 1 RJ-45 port
8. 6 audio jacks (Line In / Line Out / MIC In/Surround Speaker Out (Rear Speaker Out)/Center/Subwoofer Speaker Out/Side Speaker Out)
1. System voltage detection
2. CPU / System temperature detection
3. CPU / System fan speed detection
4. CPU warning temperature
5. CPU / System fan failure warning
6. CPU Smart Fan Control
1. Supports DDR2 800/667/533 memory
2. Dual Channel architecture support up to 8GB by 4 DIMM slots
* Due to standard PC architecture, a certain amount of memory is reserved for system usage and therefore the actual memory size is less than the stated amount.
System up and running for six months. Motherboard is coupled with an Intel e6420 cpu, 2GB GSkill 6400 DDR2 ram, PNY-Nvidia 7300GT pcie video card, Thermaltake mini-typhoon cpu cooler, Enzotech forged copper northbridge heatsink, two WD SATA hard drives(250,160) and a LiteOn SATA cd/dvd burner. Equipment is installed in a Powmax9 bay ATX case w/450W power supply.
System is overclocked from 2.133Ghz to 2.99Ghz. Cpu temperature runs at 39 degrees C and the systems temperature runs at 42 degrees C. Cpu fan speed runs nominally at 1400rpm
Ambient RT was approximately 30 degrees C at the time of temperature check.
CPU voltage is set at 1.4V
MCH over V is set at 0.2
cpu clock ratio at 8X
cpu host frequency set at 374
pcie fequency set manually at 100
sysmultip(spd) set at 2.0
System is stable under load testing with Super Pi. Auto BIOS reset works well. Have run most major distributions, 32&64 bit, with no problems. Do not have any PATA drives connected.
Connection to some on-board connectors is awkward and the front panel board connectors are not unified for easy connection.
Edit addition 11/08/07- Attached equipment and specific Linux distributions used/tested on GA-965P-DS3 motherboard.
ACCESSORY EQUIPMENT:
Logitech x530 6CH SPKR SYS, Logitech USB wireless mouse, Logitech USB headst w/mic
Canon USB LIDE 60 scanner, Samsung 15 inch LCD moniter(1028x768@60Hz), Realteck PCI NIC (10/100), Energizer UPS, Belkin auto KVM switch, Kingston 1-GB USB stick, SMC USB 802.11b wireless adapter, and an Inexo USB 802.11b wireless adapter.
Distributions (partial list) used and/or tested successfully:
Sabayon 3.4F 32bit & 64bit, Mint 3.0,3.1,4.0b XFCE,Gnome & Kde, Suse 10.3/10.2-64, PClinux 2007 & offshoots, Ubuntu 7.10 G/K/X versions, Slackware 12.0, Vector Gold 5.8, Mepis 6.5, Puppy up to 3.0, Frugal 0.8, Mandriva 2008, Kanotix, Zenwalk 4.8, and Centos 5.0.
Edited 11/13/07-Accessory equipment added:
Inland USB Multi port car reader/writer
ENCORE TV tuner Pro Mdl-ENLTV-RM pci adaptoer with remote
Samsung 2510 mono chrome Laser Printer to replace Epson Stylus color C-82 printer.
Stratitec 4 port minu USB hub
Edited 04/08/08-Changed Monitor, added an additional hard drive and an additional 2Gb of ddr2 memory.
New monitor-Samsung 19" ws mdl 932BW
New Seagate 300GB SATA/300 internal hard drive
2GB more of GSkill PC-6400 DDR2 CLS-5-5-5-15 memory.
All new items work flawlessly with a wide rage of Linux 32/64 bit distributions.
Only nuisance issue to date is with the SATA CD/DVD burner not ejecting after loading most new distributions for testing. Also, cannot get new versions of DSL-XX to boot.
Automatic BIOS rollback works perfectly and restores system to OEM settings after Over Clocking failure.
Edited 09/01/08-Added 500GB WD USB 2.0 hard drive.
The new drive initially caused the system to fail with over-clocking settings and reboot into 'stock' OEM BIOS settings. Problem was solved by "disabling" the legacy USB setting in the BIOS.
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