Right now, the Intel P35 chipset is probably the favored choice for a Core 2 motherboard platform (SLI fans apart). But with so many of them available, which one do you buy? Tom’s Wardware tries to give you some guidance by testing three boards from some of the most reputed manufacturers.

It's shocking to see the results, because they don't deviate more than 1% from one another. 3D games, 3D Studio Max, WinRAR, PCMark, Lame, XviD, H.264, Cinebench... all of them show almost identical numbers. Only DivX 6.6 gets to a 2%, which is still between the margin of error for any benchmark.

If you want to look for differences, you'll have to look at power consumption or overcloking. Not both aspects, though, because the stands reverse for each one.

Looks like buying decisions will have to be based on personal preferences, price or availability, which never were a bad basis anyhow.

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