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Overclocking

Look, I am not going to beat around the bush.

The Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3 is an EXCELLENT overclocker!

As a matter of fact, it has slightly beaten out our previous champion, the indominatable Asus P5W DH for highest stable overclock!

As you will see from the charts below, we managed to reach a stable maximum speed of 3.64GHz on air cooling! As a matter of fact, 3.72GHz was *almost* stable; a bit better cooling and it would have been the new record.

For these results, we show E6400 best overclocked results on the respective boards, plus the stock Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3 result and the OC'd DS3 result are highlighted.

Ok, first let's take a look at some synthetic benchmark resuls.

RightMark

The Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3 obviously loses in Read bandwidth to the superior memory controller in the 975X boards, but it does do very well for a 965 based motherboard!

Surprisingly, the DS3 has the top Write bandwidth! Well done.

You do get something for your money with the 975 chipset - generally 975X based boards get lower latencies than 965P based boards, although the excellent Abit AB9Pro does VERY well on the latency test.

Pretty good performance for the DS3 for overall bandwidth - but it obviously does not win.

Sandra

We see pretty much the same thing we saw with RightMark; the Gigabyte DS3 does well, and the AB9Pro does even better - especially considering they both beat some 975X based boards!

WinRAR

The Gigabyte 965P-DS3 is right in the middle of the pack here.

Doom 3

In the Doom 3 test, the DS3 is surprisingly close to the top!