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Gigabyte 6Quad GA-P35-DQ6 Review
Gigabyte 6Quad GA-P35-DQ6 Bundle Introduction
6Quad GA-P35-DQ6 Features
Gigabyte GA-P35-DQ6 Layout
Gigabyte 6Quad GA-P35-DQ6 Bundle
BIOS and Overclocking
Test Setup and Performance
3Dmark 05 and 3Dmark 06
Aquamark 03
CPUBench2003 and CrystalMARK2004
Pifast
Sandra XI
SPECviewperf 10
SYSmark 2007
Conclusion
  Written by: Elric Phares 01/23/2008
  Edited by: Chris Gump
  • Gigabyte GA-P35-DQ6 motherboard
  • Motherboard driver CD
  • User's Manual
  • Quick Installation Guide
  • Intel LGA-775 CPU Installation Guide
  • One IDE Cable and one floppy cable
  • Four SATA 3Gb/s cables
  • Two Esata brackets
  • Easy Tune5
  • PC Health
  • Yahoo Toolbar
  • Two screw nuts

The bundle is important as it determines what you get "out of the box" without additional purchase. As an enthusiast motherboard with a premium price tag, the Gigabyte board comes Two 2 -port USB brackets are included bringing the total in the bundle to 8. The inclusion of 8 SATA cables and the two brackets for external SATA with four additional SATA cables means that the user won't need to purchase them separately, as many boards require. Rounding out the drive cables are a IDE cable and a FDD cable.

Manuals are generally useful; if you need to know a specific answer to Frequently Asked Questions and indicate to the new user what they're getting, what features the board has and a overview of the various BIOS settings on the board. This manual also includes instructions on how to remove that heatsink on the rear of the board, allowing after-market cooling solutions to be used with their specialized backplates.

Gigabyte includes a well laid out poster going over how to install computer hardware with this board. For the Novice, this is a godsend. For the professional this is not necessary. The driver CD contains the drivers to get started with, a DVD Player and Norton's Internet Security OEM, which provides anti-virus software and a software Firewall. One issue I have with any Driver CD for motherboards is the inclusion of total junk software. In this case, Gigabyte includes Yahoo Toolbar, which is cool if you use Yahoo, but totally useless to anyone with half a clue as to computers.

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