$100 mobo @ FSB485:)

[icywater]

NO. It is not possible. It's not the same board and it's not going to be tricked into thinking it's the same board. You will get an error saying you have a Bios mismatch and then if you reset CMOS your board will simply no longer function. (You won't be able to get into bios because it's not the correct bios for the board.)

The boards are the same, expect for the solid caps on the DS3 and that is all to it.

Just like the dfi expert board and the dfi venus, people flash venus bios on the dfi expert board and it work fine.

[Z33ky]

Hi Mayberra, welcome to XS

So far, I tried with Super talent 667 1GB kit and it won't post (on and off for a second). With generic Centon 667 1GB and Corsair 6400C3/C4 it works.
Bios F3 got really nice oc options. Probly you can try to boot it with some generic ddr2 mem. and flash bios to F3.
Its a good oc board for the price.

Hi Dumo, thanks for the review! When using the Super Talent memory did you try to see if the board would boot with just one stick? Right now the Super Talent 667 is selling for less than $50 a GB stick and with a voltage boost will do 4-4-4 @ DDR2 800; it would be great if there was a way to get this memory to work with the Gigabyte 965P-S3! Perhaps a recent BIOS fixed this? Thanks in advance!

[Lestat]

NO. It is not possible. It's not the same board and it's not going to be tricked into thinking it's the same board. You will get an error saying you have a Bios mismatch and then if you reset CMOS your board will simply no longer function. (You won't be able to get into bios because it's not the correct bios for the board.)

you will want to educate yourself before you make a statement like that.

the 965 S3 CAN be flashed with the 965 DS3 bios, this is old old news 8 months old news.

the 945 stuff,, i wouldnt try it, nope dont do it.

[spinejam]

my ewiz 2x1gig supertalent 667 DDR2 is running fine on an S3 @ 800mhz 2.1vdimm! (F6 bios)

[Xvys]

Nice o/c for a S3. My Asus P5B vanilla retails for about $10 over the S3, but I can reach 520FSB x 7 = 3640MHz with my E6300 @ 1.44 vCore. So if we are talking FSB per $1, the P5B would probably come out on top. (Although we don't know what FSB I could reach with the 8X multiplier in the E6400).

I could probably increase the FSB with more voltage, but my cooling is not up to scratch with such extreme o/c. The base P5B vanilla with few o/c features is not a handicap. My early production E6300 and Crucial Ballistix PC6400 ram running at 520MHz @ 4-5-5-12 with 2.1 vDimm, pick up the slack.

To reduce core temps for everyday use I have backed off to 470FSB @ 1.32 vCore, with all other setting on Auto. She runs stably and cool at that clock frequency, Cap'n