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Review: Gigabyte GA-965P-DQ6 Intel P965 mainboard

by Tarinder Sandhu on 24 July 2006, 08:23

Tags: Gigabyte (TPE:2376)

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Specifications

Specification

Board feature Implementation
Name Gigabyte GA-965P-DQ6
Chipset Intel P965 northbridge and Intel ICH8R southbridge
CPU support All LGA775 processors
Including Intel Core 2 Duo/Extreme
RAM DDR2 400/533/667/800
8GiB total, 4 slots
Graphics Support PCI Express:
2 physical PEG x16 slots (no multi-GPU support. x16 and x4 support, respectively)
PCI Express3 x PCIe x1
PCI Conventional2 x PCI
NetworkingMarvell 88E8053 PCIe Gigabit
FireWire 3x FW400; two on-board headers and one on I/O
AudioRealtek ALC888DD; HD Audio, 10-channel (7.1+2)
Jack-sensing, optical TosLink and coaxial digital out
USBICH8R southbridge
10 ports USB2.0; 4 on I/O panel + 3x 2-port headers
Disks8 SATA300, RAID0,1,0+1,5. 2 ATA133

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