Testbed and Methods

The main goal of this test session is to determine the performance of Gigabyte P35C-DS3R mainboard against the competing solutions. And taking into account that it supports both: DDR2 and DDR3 memory, we are going to check out its performance with both types of memory. Therefore, we will compare the results of Gigabyte P35C-DS3R against those of Asus solutions supporting DDR2 (Asus P5K Deluxe) and DDR3 (Asus P5K3 Deluxe), that we have already tested before.

Our test platforms were built with the following hardware components:

• CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 ((LGA775, 2.66GHz, 1333MHz FSB, 4MB L2, Conroe).
• Mainboards:
• ASUS P5K Deluxe (LGA775, Intel P35, DDR2 SDRAM);
• ASUS P5K3 Deluxe (LGA775, Intel P35, DDR3 SDRAM);
• Gigabyte P35C-DS3R (LGA775, Intel P35, DDR2/DDR3 SDRAM).
• Memory:
• Corsair Dominator TWIN2X2048-10000C5D, working as DDR2-1066 5-5-5-15;
• Kingston KHX11000D3LLK2/2G, working as DDR3-1333 7-7-7-20.
• Graphics card: OCZ GeForce 8800GTX (PCI-E x16).
• HDD: Western Digital WD1500AHFD (SATA150).
• OS: Microsoft Windows Vista x86.