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

[Richard Dower]

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

[Richard Dower]

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

[Richard Dower]

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.

[Richard Dower]

Gigabyte P35T-DS4...supports DDR3 only:

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

[Darkoz]

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

[HamidFULL]

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

[Richard Dower]

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".

[Spawne32]

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

[Richard Dower]

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.

[Richard Dower]

P35-dq6, notice the different designs.

[Richard Dower]

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

[Richard Dower]

P35-DS4, supports only DDR2 memory:

[Richard Dower]

P35t-ds3p:

[Richard Dower]

P35-ds3r:

[Richard Dower]

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

[Richard Dower]

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:

[eXceeded]

still using old PS2 and serial ports lol

[HamidFULL]

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

[Spawne32]

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

[dinos22]

nice nice nice

gigacrap's got lot of choice for us

DS3s were a good start i must say

[emp3r0r]

how soon is real soon?

mid-may
late-may
early-june

do we know when nda expires?

[dinos22]

someone said 25 May i think for NDA

[Richard Dower]

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

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

[Grendel66]

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

[Richard Dower]

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