Conclusive thoughts

The first impressions of this board weren't that positive. Not that good software, which looked amateurish. The manual wasn't completely correct as well, and the only 1 device IDE port gave me an overall negative idea, as there board was skimping on features and documentation.

But after some testing the board showed to be very stable with decent performance. The board can keep up at stock speeds with the newer Intel P35 based Asus P5K board. And that board costs almost double!

Overclocking can be frustrating though as the bios acts a bit strange, requiring you to make unnecessary small changes and manual reboot in order to get the board running above specifications. Let’s hope a BIOS update can iron out these bugs. If you put in some time there is a reward at the end, a stable overclock of 400Mhz from a budget P965 board is not bad at all! Combined with a Core 2 Duo CPU which are known to be highly overclockable you get quite a bit of free performance.

Jetway 966PDAG-PB Recommended for:


PRO
Great performance
Decent overclocking
Sharp price (<70 euro)

CON
BIOS issues make overclocking harder than it should be.
Software and manual amateurish look, needs refinement.
Only 4 HDD/optical devices possible.

The board can be had for less than 70 euro at Dollarshops.eu. Big thanks for Leon from dollarshops who was so kind to lend us this board for a test drive, and for his enormous patience !