Gigabyte P35-DQ6 (Intel P35)
Expansion options
Gigabyte P35-DQ6 uses the south bridge ICH9R with a radiator. Therefore, the board supports six SerialATA II ports (yellow connectors) and allows merging hard disks into RAID arrays of levels 0,1,5, and 10 (MatrixRAID).
Besides, two more SerialATA II devices can be plugged in to the Gigabyte SATA2 controller (a JMB363 chip made by JMicron). The same chip provides support for an additional ParallelATA line.
matching connectors colored lilac
Therefore, as many as 10 hard disks (8 SATA + 2 PATA) altogether can be plugged in to Gigabyte P35-DQ6.
Then, there are twelve USB2.0 ports onboard. Four ports of them are on the rear panel, with 8 more plugged in with brackets (the board comes bundled with 2 brackets for 4 ports). Besides, Gigabyte P35-DQ6 supports the IEEE1394 ("Firewire"). For that, there is a Texas Instruments' TSB43AB23 controller onboard.
Therefore, the board offers support for 3 Firewire ports: one positioned on the rear panel, with the other two plugged in with brackets (missing in the package bundle).
Then, Gigabyte P35-DQ6 offers 8-channel Intel High Definition Audio, with ALC889A used as the codec.
A few words on the network support: there is a high-speed LAN controller - Realtek RTL8111B (Gigabit Ethernet):
The board's rear panel is of customary configuration.
Note that instead of one of the COM ports there are the following ports brought over to the rear panel: optical and coaxial SP-DIF outputs.
Traditionally, a jumpers layout diagram:
Gigabyte P35-DQ6 completely lacks any jumpers, and to reset the CMOS settings a 2-pin CLR_CMOS connector positioned near the battery is used.
Now on to the BIOS settings.
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