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In our tests, the performance of this
board is pretty good if you were to run in the official DDR333 mode. Although it can run with our Corsair at DDR400
(unofficial mode), the performance level actually dropped as we have to
run it at CAS 2.5 3-3-6. This does not mean that DDR400 is poorer in
performance. In fact, if we were to compare DDR333 and DDR400 at both
CAS 2.5, 3-3-6, we should see a bigger difference in results. You can
actually see that the memory benchmarks differs on DDR333 and DDR400.
The 8SG667 seems to lack some of the
neat features like RAID, LAN, Serial ATA, 1394. In fact, I was surprised
that there isn't a LAN port on board. This is probably removed to lower
the costs.
Overclocking wise, we only managed to
run our processor P4 2.4B at 150Mhz FSB when we fix our AGP/PCI at
66/33. The overclocking features is quite impressive! If you are those
who love to tweak the system, do check out Gallery Page 4 for more
details about the various options available. Gallery
4 is here. FSB 100~355mhz at 1mhz, multiple async modes to select
from, fix PCI/AGP mode.
Installation is very straightforward.
Just like most of the Gigabyte boards, I like the AGP retention unit.
The only dislike is that the DIMM slots are too close to the AGP slot.
When you need to place or remove DIMMs, you would have to remove the AGP
card.
Documentation is concise and easy to
understand. Somehow I dislike the idea as there are no jumpers for Clear
CMOS. You might need to find a safety pin to short it to clear CMOS if
you happen to overclock your CPU too high a FSB.
Retail price : USD 108*
* pricing based on pricewatch.com
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