Gigabyte GA 965P DS3

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What do you think? What I think is that while this board does great when you want FSB and just plan on doing reasonable 3.5GHz air-cooling overclocks on the E6300, E6400 Allendales; this is probably not the board for pushing the CPU clock speeds to close in on 4GHz for Core 2 Duos, especially when you're on the 4MB Cache Conroes of E6600, E6700, X6800. The modest 3 phase power seems to be the limiting factor in this area. For such extravagant plans it's probably a safer bet to hit on it's 6 phase or 12 phase powered "elder brothers" of DS4 and DQ6.

[...]I was glad to test out the board myself to verify the raves on it. On the one hand, I quickly picked out why it was so appealing for many: Straight-forward easy overclocking just about anyone can enjoy with a little read up and effort. And we're not talking about small headroom but more like easy way over 400MHz FSB deals. On the other hand I did come to find that the 3 phase-power can be a rather limiting factor when it comes to extreme overclocking. The performance of this board is pretty good as well, lagging behind very slightly in graphics performance when going up against a much more premium motherboard, yet holding it's own in 2D performance. But the most appealing aspect of it would be the price- USD$150 (SGD$250) for a good motherboard supporting the latest chipset and latest processor is defintiely a good deal. For that alone would warrant a recommendation, but top it off with great and easy overclocking capabilities definitely motivates me enough to search for that dusty BestBuy medal to pin on this piece of hardware.