GIGABYTE GA-P35-DS4 Motherboard Review


Introduction:
Currently, is the leader in all solid capacitor motherboards. They also use twice as many Phase Power components. So what does this all mean? Well, how about a motherboard that is more efficient and runs almost twice as cool as standard motherboards using older technology? The is that motherboard, with all the new solid state hardware - not to mention an impressive heatpipe cooling system incorporating a giant copper backplate for that additional cooling.
The is a feature-packed motherboard handling the newer 1333FSB processors, DDR2 RAM speeds up to 1066Dual and up to six SATAII connections. The dual BIOS will allow for safe recovery if something drastic should happen to the main BIOS. There's also 8 channel HD Audio and many other features.
About the Company:
GIGABYTE, one of the most well-known IT brands in the industry, started as a motherboard technology research laboratory with the passion of a new young engineers two decades ago. With the vision and insight to the market, GIGABYTE has become one of the worlds largest motherboard manufactures. On top of motherboards and graphics accelerators, GIGABYTE has further expanded its product portfolio to included notebook and desktop PC's, digital home entertainment appliances, networking servers, communications, mobile and handheld devices. GIGABYTE has risen from and eight-man office to a world-class enterprise in the IT industry.
Specifications:
Form Factor
ATX form factor, 305 x 244mm
BIOS
Supports DualBIOS Plus
2 x 8 Mbit flash ROM
Use of licensed AWARD BIOS
PnP 1.0a, DMI 2.0, SM BIOS 2.3, ACPI 1.0b.
Chipset
Northbridge: Intel® P35 Express Chipset
Southbridge: Intel® ICH9R
T.I IEEE 1394 Controller
Gigabit Lan Controller
8 Channels ALC889A Audio controller
Processor
Supports Intel® Core™2 Extreme Quad-Core / Core™2 Duo / Intel® Pentium® Extreme/ Intel® Pentium® D processors
Supports1333/1066/800 MHz FSB
Internal I/O Connectors
8 Serial ATA 3Gb/s connectors
1 UDMA ATA 133/100/66/33 connector
1 FDD connector
2 IEEE 1394 connectors
4 USB 2.0/1.1 connectors (supports 8 ports)
1 audio pin header (supports 8-Channel)
1 S/PDIF In pin header
Rear Panel I/O
4 USB 2.0/1.1 ports
2 SPDIF Out port (coaxial+ optical)
1 IEEE 1394 port
1 LPT Port
1 COM Port
1 RJ45 port
6 audio jacks
PS/2 Keyboard/Mouse
Expansion Slots
2 PCI Express X16 slot(x16, x4)
3 PCI Express X1 slots
2 PCI slots
Memory
Supports DDR2 1066*/800/667 memory
Dual Channel architecture supports up to 8GB by 4 DIMM slots * Please refer "Memory Support List" for memory support information.
Unique Features
Ultra Durable 2 Motherboard
All Copper Silent Pipe
All Japanese manufactured solid
Over-clocking Enhanced
Remark
Due to different Linux support condition provided by chipset vendors, please download Linux driver from chipset vendors' website or 3rd party website.
Due to most hardware/software vendors no longer offer support for Win9X/ME. If some vendors still has Win9X/ME drivers available, we will publish on website.
Duo to chipset limitation, Intel ICH9R RAID driver does not support Windows 2000 operating system.

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