Performance in Nominal Mode

The first batch of tests was performed with the CPU running in its nominal mode: at 2.66GHz frequency set as 8 x 333MHz.

Memory Subsystem Synthetic Benchmarks

As usual we would like to start with the performance in synthetic benchmarks working with the memory subsystem. This parameter has the biggest influence on the mainboard performance overall for Intel platforms. For our tests we used Lavalys Everest 4.0 utility.

As we can see, Gigabyte P35C-DS3R shows very good results with DDR2 and DDR3 SDRAM at default FSB speed. In the first case it performs as fast as Asus P5K Deluxe, while with the promising DDR3 SDRAM it is considerably faster than Asus P5K3 Deluxe. So, we have every right to state that the universal memory controller onboard of Gigabyte P35C-DS3R doesn’t have any negative effect on its performance.