965p mobo coming from Giagbyte supposed to support quad core kentsfield as well

[Duvie]

http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/06/06/gigabyte_6quad_motherboard/


if this board OCs it may be a sound investment.....

Edit:

Seems like it supports 100fsb to 600fsb...lots of voltages tweaks as well....looking good...

http://www.hardwarezone.com/articles/view.php?id=1956&cid=6&pg=4
http://www.hardwarezone.com/articles/view.php?cid=6&id=1967

chek out updated ocing report...

First attempt only yielded 288fsb...2nd attempt yielded 360 with updated bios....Gigabyte internally says 400fsb is obtainable.....

early but in the right direction especially if significantly less then the 975x premium....

It is already said the memory controller of the 965p is better then the 975x...

 

[twjr]

Just saw this trying to find that other article about cheaper boards. looks good. i think these 965's are going to be good for the conroes. provided they oc......

 

[Duvie]

Originally posted by: twjr
Just saw this trying to find that other article about cheaper boards. looks good. i think these 965's are going to be good for the conroes. provided they oc......

read the links I updated them.....

 

[coldpower27]

Bleh, the problem with Gigabyte boards is they tend to be quite a bit more expensive then offerings from say MSI, Epox, or Foxconn.

 

[twjr]

Originally posted by: Duvie

Originally posted by: twjr
Just saw this trying to find that other article about cheaper boards. looks good. i think these 965's are going to be good for the conroes. provided they oc......

read the links I updated them.....

Read the article looks to be a pretty good deal. so you are not too bothered about it having sli. i guess it is a big saving on the 975x. and it looks to be a good overclocker. seems the better way to go.

One other question, sort of question. I thought multipliers were locked on intel cpus. on that cpu-z sheet in that review it has an x6800 downclocked to about 2.1ghz with the multi set to x6, hows that?

 

[Duvie]

Originally posted by: twjr

Originally posted by: Duvie

Originally posted by: twjr
Just saw this trying to find that other article about cheaper boards. looks good. i think these 965's are going to be good for the conroes. provided they oc......

read the links I updated them.....

Read the article looks to be a pretty good deal. so you are not too bothered about it having sli. i guess it is a big saving on the 975x. and it looks to be a good overclocker. seems the better way to go.

One other question, sort of question. I thought multipliers were locked on intel cpus. on that cpu-z sheet in that review it has an x6800 downclocked to about 2.1ghz with the multi set to x6, hows that?

OK...

I saw that too....

It has 2x pci-e 16 but says nothing about SLI or crossfire....I assume that means potential a physics cards but does not mean SLI....Am I right here, ppl??

However, the 965 family will only support single PCIe x16 GPU configurations,

It is becoming more and more common to find PCI Express motherboards supporting dual graphics cards these days, even if the chipset the board is based on only features a single PCIe x16 interface. The GA-965P-DQ6 is no exception. The board comes with two PCI slots, three PCIe x1 slots and two PCIe x16 with the secondary slot being a shared slot that works in x4 mode. Officially, the P965 doesn't support multi-GPU configurations, but a hacked driver could probably get you a working CrossFire setup. Otherwise, you will still be able to use a dual graphics setup for quad-monitor output.

This was the article above....

 

[Furen]

Freaking gigabyte, Quad DIMM slots!! I'm surprised they didn't throw "Quad-sided PCB" on the list.

360 FSB is not all that great (considering that you start at 266...), I really do hope the low/mid range motherboards can do over 400MHz FSB or my cunning plan to buy an Allendale will be postponed until Q4 (when the 1.6GHz/800FSB part launches) so I can get a good overclock out of the chip.

EDIT: By the way, this motherboard will probably be significantly more expensive than other 965s since it looks to be extremely high-end (I must say those 4 external SATA ports sound lovely).

 

[jlbenedict]

all I know is, I'm excited about the possibilities of actually one day running Kentsfield on my desktop.

 

[broly8877]

All VRM11 compliant boards can run Kentsfield (ie, all that can run c2d)

 

[CyborgNinja117]

Originally posted by: broly8877
All VRM11 compliant boards can run Kentsfield (ie, all that can run c2d)

orly?

 

[broly8877]

yeah, Intel confirmed that

The folks down at Xtremesystems have used a few 975 and one 965 MB, all worked last I checked.

 

[hardwareking]

i'll be skipping air cooling all together.Will be getting an e6300 and a water cooling setup like corsiar nautilus or asetek waterchill etc..
I wanna see how far i can take that thing!!

 

[dguy6789]

Is there any word on the probable cost of this mainboard?

 

[twjr]

Originally posted by: Furen
Freaking gigabyte, Quad DIMM slots!! I'm surprised they didn't throw "Quad-sided PCB" on the list.

360 FSB is not all that great (considering that you start at 266...), I really do hope the low/mid range motherboards can do over 400MHz FSB or my cunning plan to buy an Allendale will be postponed until Q4 (when the 1.6GHz/800FSB part launches) so I can get a good overclock out of the chip.

EDIT: By the way, this motherboard will probably be significantly more expensive than other 965s since it looks to be extremely high-end (I must say those 4 external SATA ports sound lovely).

I think the problem with overclocking is not the boards themselves but the Bios. in the article they even said that they hadn't got the new bios revisions and said it would be capable of doing much better when they were updated. I'm sure by the time that you actually can get a Conroe the bugs will have been ironed out.

 

[MegaWorks]

12-phase power design!!!! :Q

 

[Gary Key]

Originally posted by: dguy6789
Is there any word on the probable cost of this mainboard?

Still trying to get the exact cost, estimated at this time to be around $185, depends on what Asus does with the P5B DH.