Gigabyte 975X-DS5 Review (56K friendly!)

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Gigabyte's 975X solution for Conroe has never made it into the market successfully due to a myriad of reasons, including the successfully "QUAD" marketing campaign of their 965 series mainboards and strong competitors in the market. Nevertheless, We have managed to lay our hands on one of these boards, and here we present it to you.

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http://resources.vr-zone.com/floppyi...5/IMG_0645.jpg

http://resources.vr-zone.com/floppyi...5/IMG_0653.jpg

http://resources.vr-zone.com/floppyi...5/IMG_0648.jpg

Benchmark Result Here

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Source is Clear! :fact:

too bad that this board aint in sale

Seems like a cool board, but what's the point if we'll never get to play with it? :(

Nice PCB color and seems to be a good mobo :(

this board allerady exists for a while :

http://hardware.thgweb.de/2006/07/13...or/page18.html

but it seems, that it was changed a bit. for example 3rd pci-e x16

it's a pity we will newer be able to buy it...

Layout is terrrible.

Look at where the 8 pin CPU Power connector is, you'll be routingt cables around the heatsink.

Also, I can see 2 SATA connectors being quite difficult to use with a full length card in the secon pci-e 16x slot.

Also looks like installing ram to slots 1 & 2 would be difficult with a full length card in PCI-E 16x slot 1.

And just look at where you've to route a 4pin molex for using 2 gfx cards??!!!!! Wow, not designed very well.

At least the IDE & Floppy connectors are in a decent position....

Did you know this unborn mobo is Rev0.2 !!! look at PCB revison :

http://resources.vr-zone.com/floppyi...5/IMG_0658.jpg

I think they need a rev. 3

And look where they placed the Molex connector. That's just a joke.

COmmented on that above also. Ridiculous.

could be a nice board for subzero :)

I want it, but would they update the bios just for me?

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Originally Posted by realsmasher

this board allerady exists for a while :

http://hardware.thgweb.de/2006/07/13...or/page18.html

but it seems, that it was changed a bit. for example 3rd pci-e x16

it's a pity we will newer be able to buy it...

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That's the P965-DQ6.

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Originally Posted by Dublin_Gunner

I think they need a rev. 3

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Revision 0.2 . Not Revision 2

i predict this crossfire board is gonna be pretty popular when r600 comes out. the good ole p5wdh deluxe will be its main competition.

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Originally Posted by Lead Head

Revision 0.2 . Not Revision 2

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well they need 0.3 then. No need to nitpick, I'm sure the other intelligent members would have known what I meant.