This S11 ready motherboard having NVIDIA nForce 650i chipset supports Intel Core2 Extreme, Core 2 Quad, Core 2 Duo, Pentium D, Pentium 4 and Celeron D processors. This motherboard is meant for budget conscious buyers, especially those on the lookout for high end performance and gaming motherboards.

It features 2 PCI Express x16 slots, 2 PCI Ex¬press xl and three 32-bitPCI v2.3 compliant slots. Apart from these it also has 2 IDE, 4 SATA and 1 onboard Gigabit LAN port. On the back panel one can find 4 USB. 1 serial and 2 PS/2 ports.

We tested it using Intel Core 2 Duo 2.6 GHz processor with 1 GB RAM. Windows XP SP1 and 120 GB HDD. In 3D Mark 05 and 06 thescres were 12,664 3D Marks 6,466 3D Marks, which are even better than the high-end Asus P5K3 (reviewed this month).

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In PC Mark 05 this motherboard crossed Gigabyte P53-DQ6 (re¬viewed this month) with a score of 6,979 PCMarks. In Doom3. it gave a maximum of 198.5FPS which is again a good score. In CINEBENCH 10. when rendering with a single CPU, it gave 2,721 CB-CPU and rendering with two CPUs it gave 5007 CB¬CPU, slightly less than Asus P5K3.

TECH INFO:-
SLI support,
Gigabit Ethernet,
Intel Core 2 Extreme processor.