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Gigabyte ga p35 ds3l manual Continue GIGABYTE GA-P35-DS3L (rev. 1.0) Management Guide: Today, after a three-month hiatus, we are resuming testing of motherboards on the Intel P35 Express chipset. The fact is not surprising, despite the fact that at the moment it is not difficult to buy a motherboard on Intel X38 Express, and some manufacturers even promise us fees on the X48 no later than a month, already in late December. A review of the Asus P5E motherboard showed that the Intel X38 logic set does not have much merit compared to the P35, but the high selling price of the chipset automatically increases the cost of motherboards based on it. Exploring the possibilities of motherboards on the Intel X48 chipset is still ahead of us, but judging by the haste of the announcement and preliminary information, it is basically only a fix for X38 errors and is unlikely to be cheaper. Meanwhile, the price aspect plays an important role in the choice of platform. Even AMD proponents recognize the merits of Core-based CPU, but remind that the total cost of the system is usually higher for Intel processors. Typically, LGA775 motherboards with good overclother capabilities are significantly more expensive than socket AM2 overclocker boards. The purpose of our article today is to find out what the low- cost Motherboard Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L, based on the Intel P35 Express chipset, which today is only slightly more than $100, is capable of. Originally, this chapter was intended to briefly talk about Gigabyte's parent boards, based on the Intel P35 Express chipset, but in the company currently has 14 such boards. In fact, this considerable number should be increased by 2-3 times, as many boards are issued in several modifications, and it is obvious that even a superficial consideration of their capabilities goes beyond the scope of this article. Alternatively, you can learn the basics of Gigabyte motherboard labelling. Principles on which the board gets its name are quite clear and transparent, already by the name of the model you can make a general idea of its functions, but in an explicit form it is not told anywhere. Let's fix this unfortunate gaffe. The name of any Gigabyte motherboard begins with a pair of letters GA, followed by the name of the chipset through the hyphen, in our case P35. Gigabyte's marketing department has decided that the boards currently under consideration are S Series, meaning they are smart, speed, and safe. Three words on the letter S can be replaced by a combination of S3 and one of the simplest Gigabyte motherboards called THE GA-P35-S3. If only solid capacitors are used in the production of the motherboard, it receives an additional letter D from the word durable before the title of the series. An example is the GA-P35-DS3, which differs from the previous board only by the type of capacitors. However, even in the GA-P35-S3 in the processor power scheme, as the most responsible, capacitors with solid electrolyte are used, despite the absence of a D in the name. Motherboards, whose chipset is cooled by heat tubes (Silent-Pipe), receive an additional word on the letter S and win the right no longer S3, but S4. However, if the thermal tubes are used only to cool the northern bridge, and not the entire chipset, the fee still belongs to the S3 group. An example is GA-P35-DS3P. By the way, the P in the name GA-P35-DS3P, apparently, appeared from the word pair, such boards are equipped with two slots PCI Express x16. They belong to the top of the S3 group and use southern bridges with the ability to create RAID-massives, as well as motherboards with the R letter at the end of the name. The example is GA-P35-DS3R. It is known that the Intel P35 Express chipset is capable of working with both DDR2 memory and DDR3, and Gigabyte motherboards, which are given the opportunity to work with these two types of memory, after the name of the chipset receive an additional C letter, presumably from the word combo. The example is GA-P35C-DS3. Boards working with the new DDR3 memory are allocated to a special group, which after the name of the chipset receives the letter T from the word three. An example is GA-P35T-DS3P. Of course, such a system of names can not fully reflect the diversity of models of motherboards. It does not take into account the presence of additional controllers, such as IEE1394, the number of Serial ATA connectors, the set of connectors on the back, but still is much more informative than the accepted designation systems of most other motherboard manufacturers. A general idea of the possibilities of the board can be made by its name. Today we will look at one of the simplest Motherboards Gigabyte, based on the Intel P35 Express chipset - GA-P35-DS3L. The letter L most likely denotes the word Lite (facilitated, simplified). Motherboard Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L Oddly enough, but first The new Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L (rev. 1.0) can be frustrating. Going to one of gigabyte's sites, he learns that there is the same fee, but already in the audit 2.0! Did he buy an outdated iron? Yes, it is, but we're all in the same position. Buying the newest motherboard, graphics card or processor, we buy a product developed a year ago, at least. By the time it has appeared on the market, it is already obsolete, as new models have been prepared for production for a long time, and even newer ones are being developed. This is an endless process, so let's not be in vain upset, but rather see how the motherboards Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L different revisions differ. Differences need to be looked for long and carefully. Both audits support the 12 USB ports that the Intel P35 Express chipset provides, but only four are displayed on the back of the first version of the board, and the second has six ports, that's the difference. It turns out that there is no reason to be upset, let's start considering the fee. The packaging and completeness of the Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L motherboard comes in a small box, standard for the entire series. On the back are the components of the Speed, Smart and Safe S3 series, and the front has a sticker with the name of a particular model and its features. Do not expect from the younger model of rich completeness, but still invested in the box a lot. The motherboard is accompanied by a pair of yellow Serial ATA cables with connector fixers, blue FDD and IDE plumes with silver Gigabyte logos, a back plug (I/O Shield), a driver CD, and utilities, an English-language user manual, a color poster in several languages, a guide to installing an Intel box cooler and a pair of branded silver-blue stickers with Gigabyte logos on one substrate. Design and opportunities for announcements and advertising Beginning to study the motherboard, pertaining to the very beginning of the line, subconsciously preparing for the worst. In these cases, it is usually customary to save on textolite and the desire of developers to fit everything necessary on a reduced area sometimes leads to funny, but more often to sad results. It is assumed that for the sake of a low price the buyer should turn a blind eye to all the shortcomings. However, to the credit of the developers, the motherboard Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L looks even very good, its wiring is done in a scheme close to the classic. Even those Gigabyte motherboards that don't have the D before the series name use solid electrolyte capacitors in the processor power scheme. What can we say about our Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L, which does not have conventional electrolytic capacitors at all. Gigabyte, by the way, considers itself a leader in the production of motherboards based on solid state capacitors. Gigabyte developers no longer repeat the previous mistake, when on the back of the processor socket LGA775 made numerous contacts. When installing a cooler that has a metal backplate, there was a closure that knocked the system down. The Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L has a clean and smooth surface on the back of the processor socket, just on the line connecting the fasteners For the cooler, you can see the protruding contacts, but they are unlikely to interfere with the installation of the backplate. The North Bridge of the chipset is cooled by a large aluminum radiator. Despite its dimensions, its temperature during the tests was very high. For a less hot south bridge ICH9 is quite a small radiator. In the south bridge area, there is a single conspicuous lack of the Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L motherboard, a very low-lying IDE that provides the JMicron 368 controller. The plume that stretches across the entire system block to the optical drive, which is usually located at the top, does not look very aesthetically pleasing and interferes with the movement of air flows. If you also have a hard drive with a Parallel ATA interface, connecting both it and CD or DVD-ROM will not be an easy task. However, over time, this problem will be less and less important, thanks to the disappearance of IDE HDD and the proliferation of optical drives with the SATA interface. Reducing the number of SATA connectors to four is hardly a serious drawback of the Motherboard Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L, not many users use more than four HDDs.

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