I've seen that quite a few of you have the DS3 or DS3R version working ok - but I haven't seen anyone with the DS3L who's posted. Does anyone know if works as well as the DS3/R versions.Thanks all.* I've checked on the HCL and can't see it on there.Oops - my mistake. I've just rechecked the HCL and I've found it.Anybody who has one, it would be nice to hear how you did it, problems encountered etc.. as I'm thinking of purchasing one of these for a new quadcore build.

From what I have found all of the DS3(x) boards are the same from a chipset point of view, except that they differ in features a little. For example the DS3 doesn't have SATA Raid while DS3R does, DS3P has extra PCIe slot and -1 PCI slot. Some have FW, some don't. I think the DS3L has half of the Sata ports missing (L for light?).

What you could do is go to a site like Scan and select all of the P35 boards (I did it for you, here), then click compare. This is what I am doing currently, trying to decide on a DS3 board for a Q6600. I think I will go with the DS3R (although apparently Sata Raid does not currently work so it may be a moot point).

Warning: There are different versions of photos of these boards on different websites. I have seen the same board being shown with rear mounted LPT ports, and some without (they have more rear USB ports instead). I think it's a difference between V1 and V2 boards. I haven't gotten to the bottom of this yet.

BTW - I'm currently downloading and examining all of the manuals for each of these boards from Gigabyte. That should clear stuff up a bit.

Edit: I have just noticed that the DS3L boards have the ALC888 audio chip, rather than the ALC889A of the others. May be no big deal?

Do you know what's the difference between both audio chipset is?

teh 888 will work as well, its jsut a difference between chipsetnumbers.. a DS3L mobo will work fine as well, it has less fancy things as teh ds4 or ds3p,r etc..

Ok - thanks for the info guys.