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We Stumbled across an interesting report about the GA-P35-DS3 not passing EMI compliance.  We happen to have one in our labs, but it has no effect on anything else. Notga-p35c-ds3r.jpg that we would expect anomalies with the levels still fairly low. Newer boards are emerging that are packed to the brim with features and bandwidth, companies might have to start considering these tests more as a design obstacle when enough EMI is generated to possibly start affecting other components in the case.  Not to mention pacemakers and other medical devices are susceptible

THESE DAYS, Electro Magnetic Interference (EMI) compliance is required for nearly all electronic stuff sold in the EU, US and most of Asia. This encompasses various US, FCC and CE tests, among others. So, the user's assumption would be that all such products do pass the tests.

Well, not always - Taiwan's ETC (Electronic Testing Center) labs sometimes comes across major brand products which don't exactly pass some of the EMI tests.

A fairly recent example is Gigabyte's GA-P35-DS3 mainboard, based on the Intel's P35 chipset, one of which may have been lying in waste, dropped on the floor of Taiwan's spanking new 300 km/h Shinkansen high speed train somewhere between Taipei and Kaohsiung...

Theinquirer Reports 


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