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 Electronics : Intel DP35DP Media Series P35 ATX DDR2 800 PCIe x161333MHz FSB LGA775 Desktop Board - Retail |
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Rating:  - Raid driver supplied on floppy for a board with NO floppy port
If you are building a system, don't get this board if you are planning to use XP (any flavor) or need/want a floppy drive on the system. Give me a break Intel! This board doesn't support such ancient technology as a floppy disk drive!! What I found really funny is that the board comes with the raid drivers supplied on a floppy. Intel made my system build a little more difficult. 12 USB ports is nice, guess I'll be using a lot a them!
Rating:  - Solid P38 Board for 45nm CPUs
This is a workhorse board for someone not interested in spending $200+ for the X38 chip set and wants the upgrade path to the new e8000 and q9000 CPUs. Yes, over clocking is not a feature but then we are not paying for a board to OC to begin with.
Rating:  - Something you should know before you buy this Mobo...
Before you decide to buy this board and intend to use win XP you should know this:
You will need to install that RAID/SATA driver into the hard disk before you boot to the XP installation, even if you have one hard drive. Otherwise the installation will stop. The problem is that this driver is on the CD that came with the board and on a floppy. You can't use the CD because XP doesn't let you get it from there before installation and you can't use the Floppy because this board doesn't support it. Is so stupid to put the driver on a diskette if the board doesn't even have a floppy connector but you can try a USB floppy to install and use F6 on windows installation to load the drivers. I didn't want to buy a $20 USB floppy just to do that (it is not guaranteed that it will recognize the USB floppy), so I had to create a personalized windows disk by copying my original Windows CD and adding the SATA drivers to it (Slipstream).
If I had known this before I wouldn't bought this board. With other Mobos you don't have to go trough this process.
The reason I'm giving this product 3 stars is that is very stable, it has many features and it's working perfectly after I installed everything. It's not bad if you are setting up a Quad Core or a Core 2 Duo machine and will use Windows Vista.
Note that if you will use Vista you won't have any problems because it will let you load the drivers from the CD during the installation.
Rating:  - Good price motherboard
This motherboard is a great buy for casual users who are not thinking of overclocking or don't mind that only 1.8v memory seems to be the only way to max out your memory, the mother board does work as advertized.
Works great with Core 2 Quad and 4 gig of memory, sound is acceptable.
I found no problem with it, once I upgraded the bios, but I did have some problems with heat and bios malfunctions, once I downloaded and upgraged the bios all the problems where gone.
There is a lot to like about this motherboard, just make sure you use 1.8v memory or you will have plenty of headaches.
Rating: - high stability and quality
This board installed easily and has been very stable with Vista 32 for 3 weeks.It's a great board for such a low price.The quantity of interfaces and ports is completely sufficient for the majority of applications
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