Gigabyte GA-MA770-DS3

This is GIGABYfE's next generation, high perform¬ance motherboard based on the new AMD 770 Chipset and also provides support for the new AMD Phenom quad-core processors, with the latest AM2+ platform. It has 4 integrated DDR2 memory DIMMS that support DDR2 1066 memory, which delivers superior performance for the most demanding applications and can support up to 16 GB of system memory. It also has Hyper Transport 3.0 technology, so this motherboard is full of features. The motherboard per¬formed brilliantly in all our tests. In 3D Mark06 it scored 7876 and in PCMark05 a score of 5366 was among the highest; only P35 Platinum came close on performance.

Though its performance in POV Ray wasn't great but a Business Winstone score of 39 is good enough to handle most applications. It has on¬board support for high definition 6 channel audio with S/PDIF. It comes with a single SATA chip with support for RAID 0, 1 and 01. It has 1 PCI Express x16 slot and 2 PCI slots, and a single Gigabit LAN.

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The motherboard is at par with ASUS P5KE WI-FI AP and MSI P6 N DIAMOND in terms of performance and fea¬tures but beat them for price. Overall its performance is at par with that of other boards in this category but with the lowest price in the category, it be¬comes a clear winner with a maximum score of95/100.