If you opt to run dual AMD videocards in Crossfire be aware that one PCI Express x1 slot will cease to function. Additionally, while the blue PCI Express slot will receive 16 PCIe lanes, the second orange slot will receive just 4 PCIe lanes.

On the bottom right hand corner of the Gigabyte GA-P35-DS4 we find eight Serial ATA II slots (six orange slots from Intel ICH9R Southbridge, two purple from the Gigabyte Serial ATA II controller). Various RAID Modes are supported between them. Next to the Serial ATA slots are four USB headers (in yellow) and at the lower left hand corner of the picture we see the two internal IEEE 1394 headers, and one IDE.

The Gigabyte GA-P35-DS4 has four DDR2 memory slots which can be installed with up to 8GB of DDR2 1066/800/667 MHz memory. Memory can run in a dual channel configuration. The main ATX, floppy and auxiliary power connectors are all located right here.

The Intel P35 Express and ICH9R Southbridge generate quite a bit of heat. Gigabyte cools the chipsets with an elaborate cooling solution called SilentPipe. The Southbridge and Northbridge heatsinks conduct heat through the heatpipes to the heatsinks around the LGA775 CPU socket.

Directly behind the Intel P35 Express and ICH9R Southbridge are heatsinks. When working as intended, this lowers the overall motherboard temperature.

Up next, PCSTATS will try its hand overclocking this Intel P35 'Bearlake" motherboard. This is going to be good... so click "next"!