Gigabyte GA-P31-DS3L - motherboard - ATX - iP31

Advantages: Dual bios and great stability
Disadvantages: Unnanounced conflicts and required settings

...or advertised by the manufacturer. --------------------------------- Technical Data; Form Factor- 31.1cm x 25.3cm ATX size form factor,4 layers PCB. CPU- AMD Athlon/Duron (K7)Socket A Processor 128 L1 and 256/64K L2 cache on die.Supports 500MHz - 1.2GHz+ and faster. Chipset- VIA KT266 Chipset,consisting of; VT8366 Memory/AGP/PCI Controller(PAC). VT8233 Intergrated Peripheral Controller(PSIPC). Clock Generator- W255/W312/SOP48. 105/110/115/133 MHz system bus speeds. Supports 100-179MHz. 200/266 MHz FSB and DDR bus speeds (PCI 33MHz). Memory- 3x184 pin DDR sockets. Support DDR DRAM PC200/266. Supports up to 3 GB DDR. Supports only 2.5V DDR DIMM. I/O Control- IT8705. Slots- 1 AGP Pro slot supports 4xmode and AGP 2.0 compliant. 5 PCI slot supports 33MHz and PCI 2... Read review

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Advantages: cheap, does the job
Disadvantages: graphics card obscures one of the pci express slots

...Having no idea which Motherboard we needed to buy, we looked on the internet to see what was going for what price. Having used Gigabye Motherboards in the past and never had any trouble with them the wisest thing to do was to keep to Gigabyte. We decided on the Gigabyte GA-945P-DS3 purely on the features it offered. Cost Around £46. For a motherboard this is good. Features Width: 30.5 cm Depth: 19.3 cm Compatible Processors: Pentium 4, Celeron D, Pentium D, Core 2 Duo, Core 2 Extreme 64-bit Processors Compatibility: Built-in Processor Socket: LGA775 Socket Multi-Core Support: Dual-Core FSB Speed: 1066 MHz Max Power Connectors: 4-pin ATX12V connector, 24-pin main power connector SATA 11 with 4 SATA 11 connectors 3 pci slots, 1pci express x 16, 3 pci x 1 takes up to 4 gb of ddr2 memory... Read review

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Advantages: Supports fast CPU's (upto Athlon 3200+), Crammed with features
Disadvantages: None really

...of this is that there are 4 DIMM memory slots, the first orange, the next purple, then orange, then purple. These two colours represent two different channels - DIMM's 1 and 2 are channel A and DIMM's 3 and 4 are channel B. Therefore by plugging the relevant DIMM's into the same colour sockets you can take advantage of the high speed RAM the motherboard offers. The motherboard itself measures 30.5 x 24.4 cm, which is the norm really for ATX style motherboards, suitable for the ATX type PC cases (Towers). I feel that the components on the motherboard are laid out really sensibly. The IDE connectors on the side nearest the optical drives and storage drives, so that the cable for this doesn't have to be too long and therefore restrict airflow inside the PC case, and can be tucked away easily. The jumpers and pins for the case power-on button... Read review

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