Gigabyte 965P-DS3P rev 2.0 motherboard review

System Specs & Memory Performance

The Gigabyte 965P-DS3P was tested with the E6700 processor at 2.66GHz and 3.70GHz. There is also an overclocked E6300 configuration running at 3.50GHz. As you can see the 500MHz FSB Core 2 Duo E6300 running DDR2-1000 memory had a clear advantage in the SiSoft2007 and PCmark2005 testing. The overclocked E6700 configurations were never far behind though they were only running DDR2-925. The standard E6700 configurations produced significantly less bandwidth though the 965P-DS3P was faster than both the ASUS 975X and 965P motherboards.

The MemTach results were interesting as they saw the heavily overclocked E6300 fall behind the overclocked E6700 processors. However, the reason for this is the much larger 4MB L2 cache of the E6700 which gives it a noticeable advantage in MemTach. Nevertheless, the overclocked budget processor (E6300) was still able to whip the floor with the non-overclocked E6700 processor.