Compatible Conroe motherboard on the basis of i975X, in shops are practically not present, and motherboard constructed on new chipset Intel P965, are absent at all. However gradually the situation starts to change for the better. The message today has arrived, that the first motherboard on the basis of Intel P965 has appeared. in shops
The first motherboard on the basis of Intel P965, accessible in a retail network the product of company Gigabyte, GA-965P-DS3

This motherboard has lead some experiments on Kentsfield overclocking . and during tests Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3 has shown the ability to stable functioning on FSB frequencies up to 360 MHz, . For overclocker it is not a lot from motherboard , especially considering low multipliers of processors Intel Core 2 Duo.
As for Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3 characteristics in the majority they are determined by chipset Intel P965. properties . The motherboard supports processors with bus frequency of 1066/800/533 MHz and DDR2 SDRAM with frequencies up to 800 MHz. the southbridge used is from new microcircuit ICH8 , therefore for realization of interface Parallel ATA Gigabyte has an external controller with mysterious marks В« Gigabyte SATAII В».
Detailed characteristics Gigabyte, GA-965P-DS3 it is possible to look on site Gigabyte, this payment it is for about $170. However it is cost it is strongly overestimated, in the USA, for example, orders for the specified product are accepted at the price range of $120.
Also we notice, that the Japanese shops have started to accept applications for purchase of one more motherboard on Intel P965, MSI P965 Neo-F, promising its delivery next week. The price of this mothebroard is promised at level of $140.
To put it briefly, the situation with absence of motherboard under Conroe, , moves from the dead point.