Motherboards
Gigabyte GA-P31-DS3L
| Manufacturer: | Price: |
| £49.93 inc VAT |
| Reviewer: | Review Date: |
| James Gorbold | Nov 2007 |
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| Speed | 37/45 | 82% |
| Features | 21/30 | 70% |
| Value | 24/25 | 96% |
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Rating: 85%
Review Title: Great base for a budget rig.
Comment by Seven_Guy at 11:13am 29th December 2007
Verdict: At less than £50 you can\\\'t go wrong.
I bought this motherboard off the back of the review in CPC recently. It forms the basis of a budget overclocking rig that I put together having promised myself a new PC after moving house and funds not quite stretching to the Q6600 beasty I *really* wanted to build. This was my first foray into the world of real overclocking and the GA-P31 DS3L has been great all the way. Once I discovered Ctrl-F1 to open up all of the advanced settings in the BIOS getting my budget E2140 processor to 2.66GHz (FSB 333Mhz) was a doddle. Yes, this board supports the 1333Mhz FSB processors. Things slowed down a bit thereafter. The CPC review claims they got a maximum FSB of 480Mhz but I struggled to pass 340Mhz (the board just wouldn\\\'t POST) regardless of other settings (voltages, multipliers, timings, you name it). Out of ideas, I broke what I understand to be the cardinal rule and started to increase to PCI-e bus speed having previously left it \\
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