Which midrange Core2duo mobo?

Nutbusta · 15 Oct 2006 at 08:56

I'm looking at the Gigabyte range (obviously) and was wondering what the differance between the DS3 and DS4 was apart from the heatpipe?

Do they support SLI/Sfire?

Anyone have any idea how the 2 MSI (975X and 965P) offerings perform?

Any other mobos in the £80-120 bracket I should be considering?

I intend to run with an e6300 (overclocked) and maybe a 7900GTO

dark4orz · 15 Oct 2006 at 09:06

gigabyte ds3 or 4

Nutbusta · 15 Oct 2006 at 09:13

dark4orz said:
gigabyte ds3 or 4

Cool, thats another vote for the hugely populare GB mobos' but whats the difference between them?

Monstermunch · 15 Oct 2006 at 09:42

Very little difference between them....

The DS4 has 2 x PCI-E x 16 slots, even though the 2nd one is apparently on 4 x electronic (so bit of a waste of time tbh) and the DS4 also has a heatpipe cooler on the chipset & an IEEE1394 connection.

Other than that they are identical

Nutbusta · 15 Oct 2006 at 09:45

Monstermunch said:
Very little difference between them....

The DS4 has 2 x PCI-E x 16 slots, even though the 2nd one is apparently on 4 x electronic (so bit of a waste of time tbh) and the DS4 also has a heatpipe cooler on the chipset & an IEEE1394 connection.

Other than that they are identical

Same sort of clocks?

So since I'm never gonna have enough money to run 2 graphics card and I'm not fussed about firewire then I should deffo go with the DS3?

Monstermunch · 15 Oct 2006 at 09:50

Nutbusta said:
Same sort of clocks?

So since I'm never gonna have enough money to run 2 graphics card and I'm not fussed about firewire then I should deffo go with the DS3?

Yes, chipsets are the same...