Conclusion

Gigabyte GA-965P-S3 mainboard is not free from a few drawbacks that we have already mentioned in the article. Among them are some issues with the BIOS, not quite informative PC Health Status page, not very convenient restarting in case of over-overclocking, very few fan connectors on the PCB. Moreover, some of these issues will show only if you have been using this mainboard for a while. For example, I couldn’t boot from USB-flash in any of the available modes. However, these drawbacks are not that critical and are compensated by the relatively low price of the solution (Gigabyte GA-965P-S3 mainboard is currently selling for around $150) and unprecedented overclocking potential.

Gigabyte GA-965P-S3 mainboard is the first real step towards popularization of Core 2 Duo processors, after the actual launch of these processors, of course. We highly recommend overclocking fans to pay due attention to it. As for the worsening of the overclocking potential once you reflash the new F6 BIOS version, you can always try the other versions as well as wait for the new corrected BIOS modifications that will surely come out. I am sure that Gigabyte engineers are aware of all the issues and, judging by the number of already released versions, are working hard on eliminating them.