Asus P5K consumes 20/30 more W in idle and load?!?!
This is damn too much for having nothing different.
And Asus boards use 8-phase voltage regulators!!!

Why?

"Gigabyte P35C-DS3R mainboard proved an extremely strong product. Although it is relatively inexpensive, the board can boast not only simultaneous support of DDR2 and DDR3 SDRAM."

When using the 'not only ' syntax, you need to follow up with a 'but also [[] ]' string, where [] denotes optional arguments. Sorry, otherwise it's a good review ;)

Great article I deside to buy this board because this article :)

Thanks on this .

Hi,
Good article, however:
1. The closest competitors to the Gigabyte P35-DS3R are Asus P5KC and MSI P35 Neo Combo (why didn't you test them too?), rather than two Asus boards presented in article, which are tuned for overclockers.
2. Each Asus board from article costs much more than Gigabyte combo. The closest competitor for the Asus duet would be probably MSI P35 Platinum Combo.
3. If the Gigabyte combo eats more than 20W less than Asus, then maybe some wider comparison of power eaten by different motherboards with different chipsets would be interesting?

Bios in the gigabyte intel p35/g33 mobos is really disapointing i am working with 3 news and same issues lack of voltage control etc. Really too bad - these are nice mobos - gigabyte really blew it.

Good article that came at the right time, because I am thinking of it for my new system and comparing with Asus P5KC. One difference with them is P5KC use ICH9 while this one use ICH9R, and the former does not support AHCI. The two Asus mobos included in the article both use ICH9R (i.e. support AHCI). Any idea how would the result be if P5KC with AHCI is used for the comparison?

One factor for considering this mobo is the "C" which support both DDR2 and DDR3. However, based on the tests in the article, DDR3 doesn't gain much performance advantage over DDR2 (some even worst than DDR2). So, this gives no reason to switch in future, and hence no reason to use this mobo. Did I miss anything here?

Sorry, typo.

My first question should be: Any idea how would the result be if P5KC withOUT AHCI is used for the comparison?

I like where he tests the power the boards use.

Any idea where the front panel wire for firewire can plug into on this board?

I have this motherboard and I have a lot of problems with overclocking. If I put CPU host clock control to enabled my computer is restarting at booting and sets that back to disabled. I have Intel q9300, but same thing was happening with Intel e6300. Tried my quad on friend's ASRock P45XE-R. CPU was overclockable to 3.15 GHz with no problems and with no rising any voltage.It could've gone even hihger.