This high-end garners' board is based on the all new Intel P 3 5/ICH9R chipset, which allows an FSB of 1. 3 GHz. This chip set has support for DDR 3 RAM, but this board doesn't come with this featuure. The board also supports 45 nm CPUs, and comes with 4 memory slots that support up to 8 GB DDR2 RAM. Like other boards in its price range, this also has a heat¬pipe running from North to South bridge, for better cooling. Apart from 6 SATA II ports, it also has 2 GSATA II (Gigabyte SATA) connectors, which support RAID 0, 1 and JBOD.

This motherboard was a good performer. We tested it with an Intel Core 2 Duo 2.6 GHz, 1 GB DDR2 RAM, and Radeon X19 50 series graphics card. It gave good performance in all the benchmarks, but the results were slightly lower than the Asus P 5K3 motherboard (also reviewed this month). In 3D Mark 05 and 06, its scores were 12306 and 6021. respectively. In PC Mark 2005, it scored 6006 PCMarks. In Doom 3, it scored 196 fps, while in CINEBENCH 10 it clocked 3785 CB-CPU.

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TECH INFO:-

New P35/1CH 9R chipset,
ATI CrossFire and 45 nm CPU support,
2 PCI,
2 PCI-E x16,
& 3 x1 slots,
6 SATA II ports,
RAID 0,1,5, & 10;
12 USB,
2 FireWire,
& GbE port.