THe 965 Gigabyte board will outperform the 650i by quite a bit. You would have to get a 680i Nvidia chipset to be close to the performance the 965 chipset will provide with the C2D. The Nvidia boards can be more sensitive and quirky to RAM than the 965 boards.
What? Thats just stupid.
P965 is a dated chipset. The only thing it still has is overclocking ability, wich might match the 650i, but performance wise and compatibility, it doesnt come close the 680i, which is much closer the P35 and X38.
My suggestions are hardly stupid, it is your inability to read and comprehend technical information and then you make uneducated, blatantly stupid outrageous comments to every member of the forum you reply to. It's not worth my time to correct all the bogus comments you have made in just last the 48 hours on this forum. Watch what you say before you reply to forum members. You are costing people with your dumb comments in the RAM section. The 680i just keeps up with comparible Intel chipsets. The Intel 965 is hardly a piece of crap or hunk of junk or whatever you are saying. Those kinds of comments to people asking for help are just not needed. Your not worth the time replying to Track. I hope you get that cleared up sometime soon.
The only person making bogus comments is you. Or at least thats how it seems due to the fact that I keep having to correct them.
P965 is not a "piece of junk", as u say. But it is not even as good as 975X, and that is not as good as 680i SLi.
So since the performance of P965 is nothing to write home about, the only thing it can still do is overclock, and since the 650i SLi can get to a 500Mhz FSB, it is actually better than it.
If u want to be an Intel fanboy, how about picking on the new P35 chipset wich actually IS very slightly better performing than 680i SLi.