Official GIGA P35-S3/DS3/DS3R/DS3P/DS4/DQ6 bios/info thread

These motherboards will be launching very soon, you can even find F2 bios for some of the boards online. With this thread we'll try and help those having issues.

We'll cover driver and bios updates incl. betas, reviews and general tips and help. Please join us :)

http://62.109.81.232/cgi-bin/sbb/sbb...rum=23&show=35

http://www.hardwarezone.com.au/revie...246&cid=6&pg=1

http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:d...lnk&cd=5&gl=ie

http://www.hwupgrade.it/articoli/skm...earlake_3.html

http://extremeoverclock.org/gigabyte...-may-2007.html

http://www.itharem.com/modules.php?n...howpage&pid=93

Official F2 bios for the P35-DS4:

http://tw.giga-byte.com/Support/Moth...S&FileID=12686

P35-DQ6:

http://drivers.softpedia.com/get/BIO...-BIOS-F2.shtml

P35-DS3P:

http://drivers.softpedia.com/get/BIO...-BIOS-F2.shtml

There will be a number of variants of each board, the P35-DQ6 will come in there flavours, one supports DDR2 memory while the other supports DDR3...a third board will support both DDR2 and DDR3 on a single board.

Each variant will be labeled.

Gigabyte P35T-DS4...supports DDR3 only:

http://product.pcpop.com/000045126/Index.html

Thanks for the info Richard, is there a firm release date for the new boards?

Nice idea Richard Tanx but when we can see new babas?!

I preordered the P35-DQ6...same price as the 965P-DQ6, due date is May but no exact date as yet. I'll keep the thread updated if i see boards starting to sell.

I've already seen three PCB designs for the P35-DQ6, Gigabyte seem to be revising the heatsinks on the back of the PCB, the so called "crazycool".

so what are the performance advantages gona be over the P965 DS3 rev3.3 i have now?

We're all waiting for benchmarks to determine that. It terms of board changes...the audio codec has been updated to the brand new Realtek ALC889A which has a 106dB S/N ratio and supports DTS connect, the onboard LAN chip has been changed to a Realtek RTL8111B, apparently the Jmicron controller has been updated to the JMB373 but not 100% sure as yet.

Other revisions include tweaks to the PCB.

P35-dq6, notice the different designs.

P35T-DQ6, only supports DDR3 memory...notice the different colored memory slots:

P35-DS4, supports only DDR2 memory:

P35t-ds3p:

P35-ds3r:

P35-DS3P...different heatsink design to the DDR3 only model:

P35C-DS3R, as you can see it has six DIMM slots. Supports both DDR2 and DDR3 memory, from the image it seems it supports 4GB of DDR2 memory and 2GB of DDR3 memory. 4 slots for DDR2 and 2 slots for DDR3:

still using old PS2 and serial ports lol :)

P35C-DS3R should be Great Budget! like 965P-S3
also update Topic Name PLZ

mosfet mounting holes!! that means with these boards we can throw some of those sexy sexy thermalright mosfet coolers on there :D

nice nice nice

gigacrap's got lot of choice for us :D

DS3s were a good start i must say :toast:

how soon is real soon?

mid-may
late-may
early-june

do we know when nda expires?

someone said 25 May i think for NDA

Some new news, but June?????....bloody hell.

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=7099

My eyes -- what's up w/ that Toy'R'Us color scheme ??

A retail version of the GA-P35-DQ6, GA-P35-DS3P, GA-P35-DS3R AND GA-G33-DS3R:

http://forums.vr-zone.com/showthread...74#post3644374

Some more juicy PR info from Gigabyte:

http://forums.vr-zone.com/showthread.php?t=148176

http://forums.vr-zone.com/showthread.php?t=147901