Gigabyte DS3 gets kentsfield support

[ncage]

It will have support in bios revision f7 that does not seem to be available yet. Even if you go to the gigabytes homepage its showing kentsfield support. So those of us who were early adopters don't have to worry that kentsfield will only be supported in Rev 2 boards....IM SO HAPPY .

Ncage

Quad-core support added to Gigabyte 965 boards
by Cyril Kowaliski - 12:43 pm, October 9, 2006

A number of Gigabyte motherboards have gained support for Intel's upcoming "Kentsfield" quad-core processors via new BIOS updates. Boards and updated BIOS versions that bring quad-core support are as follows:

Motherboard model
BIOS version
GA-965P-DQ6 F6 or later
GA-965P-DS4 F6 or later
GA-965P-DS3 F7 or later
GA-965P-S3 F6 or later
GA-965G-DS4 F2 or later
GA-965G-DS3 F5 or later
GA-965G-S2 F2 or later

These latest BIOS revisions don't seem to be available for download just yet, but Gigabyte says they'll appear here.

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[MichaelD]

Well, this is good news. I just purchased my board a few days ago; haven't received it yet. I got it from Newegg. I wonder if I got a Rev2 board?

The good thing is that the DS3 has solid caps; hopefully, time will show that solid caps last a good long time. I had two Epox 8RDA+ boards die on my b/c of leaking caps.

 

[Skott]

Definetlely good news. There are alot of DS3 owners out there.