MotherBoards.org Updated:
2011-08-10 02:42:32
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With the recent launch of the Intel Core i7 CPUs, and the X58 chipset, one may wonder what the need for a P45 chipset based motherboard is today. The transition to a new chipset and CPU is generally more expensive than buying the previous generation CP...
The GIGABYTE GA-EP45-DS3R board is an interesting motherboard in this day and age of economic crisis. While the Core i7 and the like outperform the P45 and X48 motherboards with the Core 2 Duo and AMD Phenom II CPUs by a wide margin, the COO (Cost Of O...
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tbreak.com Updated:
2011-08-10 02:42:35
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With juicy features packed on high end motherboards, everyone wants a piece of that pie, although not everyone can afford it. There’s a large chunk of end users today that want to see some of those features brought to a budget motherboard. Enter Gigaby...
After getting into it, we really aren’t sure if we have just tested a high end or budget motherboard. The high end BIOS features, full solid capacitors and the dual PCI-e slots with ATi CrossFire capability were among the features that confused us...
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Not everyone needs, or can afford, a super high end motherboard. Most people can get by just fine with a midrange board that offers decent overclocking capabilities. This is why Gigabyte offered us the GA-EP45-DS3R for review, and we graciously accept...
Gigabyte had a goal, to build an energy efficient midrange motherboard, and I think they very much succeeded with the GA-EP45-DS3R. There are a lot of boards in the DS series offered by Gigabyte, varying in feature set and price range, but for the pri...
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amdzone.com Updated:
2011-08-10 02:42:41
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Intel released their X38 chipset last year and X48 chipset earlier in 2008 but both of these chipsets were very expensive and also did not see a die shrink from the 90nm manufacturing process. Luckily not long ago they've updated their main...
Overall Gigabyte have done a great job with the new Intel P45 chipset and we feel that is offers a lot of value for a lot less money than the X38 and X48 chipsets. Honestly we'd probably look at the P45 before them as the chipset should offer less powe...
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Gigabyte has come up in the world, emerging as a top-tier contender rather an also-ran. Today HardwareLogic looks at one of the companys newest mid-range offerings, the GA-EP45-DS3R...
Gigabyte proves that a mid-range board can hang with its high end brethren. Intel gets some of the credit for its P45 Express chipset, but Gigabytes implementation in the GA-EP45-DS3R earns much more praise that boos and hisses. A well organized lay...
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s have ranged from the X38, X48 and the P45. Compound that with the fact that both DDR2 and DDR3 flavors generally exist for each, and you have a large number of models making their way to the market. The P45 can be considered the spiritual successor t...
The GA-EP45-DS3R from GIGABYTE is a mainstream motherboard loaded with features and performance for the price. Be sure to use our pricing engine to find the best prices on Intel motherboards and anything else you might need: Return to Motherboard Home...
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insidehw.com Updated:
2011-08-10 02:42:59
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This time we have tested a middle-lower class motherboard but nevertheless an interesting model, Gigabyte GA-EP45-DS3R. Gigabyte was always, at least when it’s comes to DS3 series of motherboards, known for simplicity and real good production quality...
We used Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 processor for evaluation of overclock possibilities and we managed to achieve incredible 558MHz for FSB. Yes, you read it correctly, 558MHz, so because of that we think that this is the best possible shopping for users wi...
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Gigabyte has built a good reputation for its fully-featured motherboards. In fact is one of the first ever manufacturers presenting motherboards with energy saving features, a highly discussed issue that recently fired up a series of controversial anno...
The Gigabyte EP45-DS3R is the first motherboard we test equipped with the latest Intel P45 chipset. Actually the motherboard has been quite a while here waiting for testing, but its early version of the BIOS did not allow us to perform the tests. The...
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Starting off on our trek through our first two P45 boards to hit our labs, we start on the EP45-DS3R. It is GIGABYTE’s mainstream version of the P45 and as always the board is based around the same blue coloured full size ATX 24x30cm PCB.GIGABYTE ha...
Intel’s P45 Express chipset hasn’t officially hit the market yet (it will launch shortly at Computex in Taipei), this is why we haven’t been able to give a huge amount of detailed features on the P45 Northbridge or its ICH10R companion c...
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I'll happily admit that I prefer not to drop more than £100 on a motherboard. Like many of you, I find the features of super expensive boards become ever more obscure and diminishing in value - do I need four Ethernet ports and 6-squillion front s...
The DS3R was designed as an inexpensive essentials board and it exceeds its quota. While we cannot recommend the board for Multi-GPU purposes that doesn't mean you can't use a good single card or a GX2/X2 or the second slot for another Nvidia card for...
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virtual-hideout.net Updated:
2014-03-31 01:37:15
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As far as I can remember, there havent been quite as many success stories from enthusiasts as there have been with motherboards sporting the Intel P35 Chipset. It has been a nice jump for regular users, but especially for extreme users that like to...
Considering how enormously out of control gas prices and other energy costs have been these days, its becoming more apparent we all need to find other routes to cut our own costs and save money. With just the small tests performed here, you can sort...
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