P35 DS3

[roncpem]

Anyone have one of these yet? I see them available at Club It. Was wondering how they are. Thanks.

 

[SuperFly03]

P35 DS6

I realize it isn't what you asked about, but you can get a general idea of performance from this review.

 

[roncpem]

Thanks. It helps.

 

[SuperFly03]

You're welcome.

 

[Canuck1]

I am curious about the P35 DS3P.

Anybody have comments about it?

 

[thetallone]

i got the p35c-dsr and so far its running stable... i havnt messed around with the bios yet but its running quite well for stock detection settings.

 

[vonhell]

my brother bought a PC 2 weeks ago, I chose the parts and amongst them P35-DS3

gonna go to work soon so it will be quick

on the plus side:
+ great manual
+ easy to use bios
+ stable (his E4300 is @ 2.4 and undervolted from 1.325 to 1.225)
+ has RAID (although not Intel's but proprietary Gigabyte RAID controller)
+ price
+ 6 phase voltage regulator
+ good design

cons:
- stupid naming scheme in BIOS, instead of setting 1.9V for RAM you set +.1 (since 1.8 is standard spec). same applies to FSB, PCI-E. CPU voltage is controlled in traditional way
- lack of ICH9R (but, as mentioned above, you still can use RAID)
- lacks 2 SATA ports from DS3R (has 6 of them although photo on one of Gigabyte's sites suggests it has 8 of them - photos on polish and english sites are different)
--- only 2 of the USB ports are USB 2.0
--- there are ONLY 2 !! SATA cables in the box and no MOLEX->SATA power adapters whatsover...

the DS3R in my country was only like 4$ more so I'd go for it. Unfortunately, was out of stock at time of purchase