GA-965P-DQ6 (rev. 1.0)

This platform supports the latest Intel^® Core™2 Extreme Quad-Core processors. Manufactured using a 65nm silicon technology, Intel's latest high performance CPU delivers the most energy-efficient performance available today. Based on Intel's Micro Architecture, the Intel^® Core™2 Extreme Quad-Core processors with 4 cores and two shared L2 caches provide the best capability-per-watt solutions and are an ideal choice for multi-media enthusiasts and intensive multi-tasking environments. This cutting-edge processor offers significant performance boosts and provides an overall more energy efficient platform.

Windows Vista Premium promises to deliver a streamlined computing experience designed to fundamentally change how users view, find and organize their digital information. With GIGABYTE AM2+/ AM2 solutions enabling support for Vista Premium, GIGABYTE offers a fresh and unique desktop experience that will be more informative, intuitive and completely new....more

To ensure a longer operation life time for systems in daily operation and boost system stability under extreme conditions, this platform adopts cutting-edge Conductive Polymer Aluminum Solid Capacitors from the world's leading vendors. With these high-qualitycomponents , users can take advantage of better electronic conductivity and excellent heat resistance for enhanced system durability.

This revolutionary cooling design combines Crazy Cool and Silent-Pipe technology that includes heat sinks covering MOSFET modules, the north bridge and the south bridge. Additionally, the Crazy Cool enhances heat dissipation of the rear side of CPU and north bridge of the motherboard. Quad Cooling allows users to enjoy longer component lifetime through lower temperatures and absolute silence combined with the ultimate thermal performance on chipsets, CPU power components and the PCB.

Quad BIOS is a feature unique to GIGABYTE that includes DualBIOS™ and Express BIOS Rescue Technology. This combination delivers a safety assurance mechanism that sports a total of 4 copies of BIOS distributed between the Flash ROM, hard-disk and driver CD. This feature helps to reduce the affects of virus attacks or firmware damage and provides multi-layer BIOS protection that assures greater PC platform stability. How does Quad BIOS work?

Four sets of external SATA ports based on the Serial ATA 3Gb/s storage specification allow effortless sharing and transfer of entertainment content and digital media on external devices. Designed for external SATA devices, Quad eSATA 2 delivers enhanced scalability and double the bus bandwidth for high-speed data retrieval and saving On-The-Go.

An exclusive feature found only on GIGABYTE motherboards, this unique design incorporates Virtual 12 Power Phases to deliver steadier power and immediate current support for the CPU during heavy work loads or over-clocking. Additionally, Quad-Triple Phase helps to improve component lifespan system stability by delivering lower component temperature.

Experience the boost in memory performance with advanced DDR2 800 technology. With Quad DDR2 slots, users can experience system performance featuring faster speeds and higher data bandwidth for memory intensive applications.

The revolutionary GIGABYTE Silent-Pipe Technology compliant S-series motherboards feature 0dB soundless heat-pipe thermal cooling solution, and enhances heat dissipation efficiency from the critical Chipsets and CPU power components.

The Speed compliant motherboards of GIGABYTE S-series provide intelligent over-clocking and over-voltage software settings through both hardware and software design.

1. Overclocking : Wide range of frequency tuning for CPU/MEMORY/PCI-E bus speed
2. Overvoltage : Flexible voltage setting for CPU/ Memory/ PCI-E/Chipset
3. Sofeware facility - EasyTune5 & M.I.T. (Motherboard Intelligent Tweaker): Intelligent software interface for user-friendly operation.

The Smart featured motherboards of GIGABYTE S-series provide GIGABYTE proprietary innovative software such as Download Center, @BIOS, Q-Flash, Xpress Install, Boot menu, and Smart Fan. BIOS and driver management now becomes much easier and user friendly through GIGABYTE Smart features!

Download Center
Smart driver selection and download from Gigabyte's website

Xpress Install
Complete drivers installation on one simple click

Smart LAN
BIOS built-in diagnostic program to examine LAN cable connection status


@BIOS / Q-Flash
Smart and automatic BIOS update via internet / BIOS built-in flash utility


Boot Menu
Select boot device without entering BIOS setup

Smart Fan
Make your system cooler and quieter

Safe is the key feature of GIGABYTE S-series motherboards with the following elements: Excellent hardware design, reinforced BIOS protection through GIGABYTE Dual BIOS Plus Technology and GIGABYTE BIOS Setting Recovery Technology. Unique system software such as Xpress Recovery 2, PC Health Monitor, HDD S.M.A.R.T., and C.O.M. further strengthen the stability and reliability of your PC!

Dual BIOS Plus
BIOS crash free protection with Dual BIOS and Xpress BIOS Rescue

BIOS Settings Recovery
Recoverable Safe and frequently used CMOS settings


HDD S.M.A.R.T.
Hard drive "Self Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology" support

C.O.M. (Corporate Online Manager)
System administration utility for local area network

Xpress Recovery 2
Quick system image backup and restore

PC Health Monitor
System health monitor via BIOS and EasyTune utility

Leading the silicon process technology from 90nm to 65nm, the Intel new-generation CPU transistors deliver more energy-efficient performance than anyone. Based on the Intel's next generation Micro Architecture, the Intel Core ™2 Duo processor with two cores and shared L2 caches provides the best capability-per-watt solutions. The cutting-edge processor the significant performance boosts and better energy efficient platform

The next-generation Intel^® P965 Express chipset brings crossing-aged improvement on performance with supporting of various innovation technology including the latest Core™2 Duo processor, dual-channel DDR2 memory with Intel Fast Memory Access technology, PCI-Express graphics interface, and Microsoft next-generation Vista operation system as well.

Intel Fast Memory Access
Intel Fast Memory Access technology optimizes system performance by maximizing memory bandwidth and reducing the latency of the memory accesses. ...more

Experience the advanced technology of DDR2 800 memory by overclocking, featuring faster speeds and higher data bandwidth, which delivers superior performance for the most demanding applications.
* Please refer "Memory Support List" for memory support information

SATA 3Gb/s저장 인터페이스의 전송폭이 초당1.5Gb에서 초당3Gb로 향상되었다. SATA 3Gb/s는 SATA속도를 두배로 향상시켰고 또한 훨씬 전송폭의 활용이 효율적이고 데이터 백업 및 저장 능력이 강화되었다.

Intel^® Matrix Storage Technology, can deliver up to 80% faster storage performance with PCs equipped with two hard drives using RAID 0 data striping. Using RAID 1 data mirroring can protect against a hard drive failure by mirroring all data among two hard drives. In addition RAID 5 offers the fault-tolerant capability to automatically back up your most important files, while also providing faster disk access and adding storage capacity.

기가바이트(Gigabit)LAN은 기존의 초고속 네트워크를 제공하여 연결 대역폭을 최고 1,000 Mbps까지 지원하고 광대역을 제공할 때 네트워크 연결을 최적화해준다. 또한 네트워크를 연결할 때 사용자가 동영상 또는 음악을 제공하는 홈페이지를 브라우징해도 막히거나 끊김 현상이 전혀 없다.

This motherboard with IEEE1394 FireWire interface from Texas Instruments (TI). With the transfer speed up to 400Mb/s, the new generation IEEE1394 interface further enhances PC connectivity with consumer electronics audio/video.

Intel^® High Definition Audio enables 8 channel premium digital sound in the PC for an immersive surround sound experience. In addition, Intel HD Audio delivers multiple audio channels in your PC so you can listen to two different streams simultaneously in two separate rooms

Dolby and DTS support delivers heart pounding 8 channel surround effects and delivers the most natural and engrossing multimedia entertainment experience possible for games, DVD movies, music, and TV.

As a member of the global community to look after the environment, Gigabyte complies with the European Union's Restriction of use of certain Hazardous Substances (RoHS) directive which limits the use of lead, mercury, cadmium and other hazardous substances in electronic products. From components and material selection to production processes, make up of accessories, packaging/color boxes etc; GIGABYTE has carefully examined and designed this product to be 100% RoHS compliant. GIGABYTE will continue to develop RoHS compliant PC components and commit valuable resources to promoting and advancing RoHS directive goals and objectives.

With support for ATI CrossFire, GIGABYTE pushes the envelope once again by delivering highly optimized performance and flexibility demanded by power users and extreme gaming enthusiasts. Designed to provide unmatched multi-GPU support with dual PCI Express connectivity, the GA-965G-DS4 allows users to take advantage of the ultra smooth 3D rendering, blazing-fast frame rates and enhanced visual quality possible with a dual graphics card solution.

Attention: When attempting to enable ATI Crossfire Technology on this board.In case of unable to get Crossfire Technology working normally, please make sure to use ATI graphic cards that have hardware Crossfire bridge.(Please refer to ATI official website for more Crossfire Technology supporting details: http://ati.amd.com/technology/crossfire/charts.html)