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How is Doc TY...I heard he is staying away from AD...Anyone know how much he was able to push the 680i with phase cooling...

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While most of the GIGABYTE P965 rev 1.0 / 2.0 boards are also capable of supporting 1333MHz FSB through the latest BIOS update.

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Does it support 1333FSB...with a Bios update?..

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Good Find...$19 for a Cooler Master 500 P/S...Hard to beat...I might just pick one up...

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Gigabyte Site:

The Benefits of the GIGABYTE rev 3.3 Motherboards

Recently, GIGABYTE launched the newly designed rev 3.3 Intel P965-based motherboards. Not only are they the first motherboards on the market to feature native support for 1333MHz FSB, but GIGABYTE has equipped them with several industry leading features that truly make them stand out from the competition. So let's take a closer look at what makes the GIGABYTE rev 3. 3 motherboards tick.

GIGABYTE rev 3.3 Motherboards Supporting 1333MHZ FSB

Model Name
GA-965P-DQ6(rev. 3.3)
GA-965P-DS4(rev. 3.3)
GA-965P-DS3P(rev. 3.3)
GA-965P-DS3(rev. 3.3)
GA-965P-S3(rev. 3.3)

Native Support for 1333MHz FSB

The main feature that GIGABYTE rev 3.3 motherboards provide is that they offer support for the next generation 1333 FSB Intel Core? 2 Duo processors. As 1333MHz FSB is natively supported, no overclocking is need to unlock the performance benefits of these new processors.

While not available on the market quite yet, Intel's next gen Core? 2 Duo processors are set to be an overclockers very best friend, with some pretty impressive performance numbers. While I would love to show you guys the benchmarks, for now, you will just have to take my word.

While most of the GIGABYTE P965 rev 1.0 / 2.0 boards are also capable of supporting 1333MHz FSB through the latest BIOS update, GIGABYTE has made some hardware enhancements that squeeze maximum performance out of these next generation processors. To start, GIGABYTE has optimized the FSB routing design to improve signal quality for not only 1333MHz FSB CPUs, but for Intel quad-core processors as well. By widening the FSB trace routing, FSB impedance has been reduced from 50 ohms to 42 ohms. This impedance means there is less resistance for the electrical signal to travel between the CPU and the FSB, increasing the speed at which the signal travels and improving signal quality.

The GIGABYTE rev 3.3 P965 Series motherboards also feature flexible memory support options in the BIOS, greatly extending the overclocking potential of the boards, especially when using a 1333MHz FSB processor. With memory multiplier settings including x2.0, x2.5, x3.33 and x4.0, users who overclock will be able to see a marked improvement in memory performance, with even slight overclocking reaching a more than 5% increase in performance.

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I was just wondering if you knew what the change was?..that made Rev3 support it while rev1 does not...

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What did you do to get native 1333FSB support on your 965P revision 3.3 boards?

So far only 975X can support 1333FSB. We tried unlocking 1333FSB through BIOS but the end results are not ideal. Therefore, we re-routed the circuitry and added more components. However, 965 still lacks 975x of the dual graphics 2 x PCIe x8 bandwidth.

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Thanks You,
theonejrs and Crowy for the time and Info...looks like a Quad Core is really the only upgrade course for me...as far as CPU's go...

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