The Gigabyte GA_P35_DQ6 Thread

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Well, just bought this board as I was very disappointed with my EVGA 680i and my quad core problems.

My main concern with this board was whether my Tuniq Tower would fit around the heat pipes and heatsinks on the gigabyte board.

Here are my findings.

Here's a close up pic of the board. Not bad, lots of connectors, notabably USB and SATA in abundance !

http://www.ollyk.com/mobo/1.jpg


Here it is up against my EVGA 680i:


http://www.ollyk.com/mobo/2.jpg

The back of the board. Note that this heatsink needs to be removed if your fitting anything other than the standard intel cooler :


http://www.ollyk.com/mobo/3.jpg

Here's a trial fit of the Tuniq to the board (ouch, tight !)


http://www.ollyk.com/mobo/4.jpg


Closer inspection reveals the bottom of the fan in the Tuniq hitting one of the heatsinks on the mobo:


http://www.ollyk.com/mobo/5.jpg

http://www.ollyk.com/mobo/6.jpg

Not too much of a problem though, I just slid the fan up until there was a slight gap.

Also worth noting, the thumbscrews to attach the heatsink are quite hard to get to with the Tuniq in place and the heatsinks on the mobo:

http://www.ollyk.com/mobo/7.jpg

http://www.ollyk.com/mobo/8.jpg

Here's 2 shots of the Tuniq with the fan slid up a little, giving enough room for it to fit properly:

http://www.ollyk.com/mobo/9.jpg

http://www.ollyk.com/mobo/10.jpg

Here's something I've never seen before, like a triple stacked jumper block, for the front panel audio, obviously needed to be raised for easy access to it behind the heatsink ! :

http://www.ollyk.com/mobo/11.jpg

Quick shot of the board in my case :

http://www.ollyk.com/mobo/12.jpg

And a quick shot of the outside of my case, all put back !

http://www.ollyk.com/mobo/13.jpg


I hope you find it useful, currently I have my QX6700 at 3gig, 300FSB and x10 multi, will play around later.
 
Looks nice mate! That is quite a rig... only got one DVD drive in my case! :cool:

Love the lian li! Similar to a UFO... awesome!

Just got a P35 DS3P. Very impressed with it.

Looks very similar to the DQ6 - just seems to be missing a lot of the heatpipe cooling yours has! :p

What temps you getting?

gt
 
Thanks for that, love the case :),
Looking to change my motherboard to one of these shortly.

Rob
 
im not entirely sure regarding temps. lavasys EVEREST which I used on both boards, for the EVGA i was getting 40 idle, this board 50-55 idle. Not sure if its reporting it correctly or if I havent done the thermal paste properly ( i REALLY dont want to take the mobo out again !)

So im just downloading EasyTune for gigabyte boards to see what that tells me, because going straight into the BIOS after a reboot, the CPU temp there tells me 40.

But, yeah, seems like a great board, no problems so far. FSB now at 340, mutli down to 9
 
Olly said:
im not entirely sure regarding temps. lavasys EVEREST which I used on both boards, for the EVGA i was getting 40 idle, this board 50-55 idle. Not sure if its reporting it correctly or if I havent done the thermal paste properly ( i REALLY dont want to take the mobo out again !)

So im just downloading EasyTune for gigabyte boards to see what that tells me, because going straight into the BIOS after a reboot, the CPU temp there tells me 40.

But, yeah, seems like a great board, no problems so far. FSB now at 340, mutli down to 9
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Try using TAT. :)

Seems to be the most accurate core temp reader.

gt
 
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Got mine sitting here, but it's going to have to wait for a week or two before I finish the build.

Jokester
 
jokester, nice, didnt know you could get aftermarket heatsinks for it !

thanks for the link, doesnt want to run on my machine though, im using vista ultimate 64 bit, maybe thats why ?

it installs, I can run, i see the windows for a split second then it closes.
 
I was going to compare aftermarket heatsinks to the standard sinks on the PK5, at the moment, I've got nothing that fits the SB and the mounting holes for the MOSFETs are too close together for HR-09s, so I think I'll just epoxy them on. The holes for the NB are an odd distance but the HR-05 mount is sufficently far off the board that you can angle the pushpins through the holes.

Jokester
 
Jokester said:
The holes for the NB are an odd distance but the HR-05 mount is sufficently far off the board that you can angle the pushpins through the holes.

Jokester
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Jokester,

Looks good. So similar to the DS3P like i said earlier.

The Noctua NC-U6 would be ideal for that as the pushpin mounts can be twisted to fit any distance (within reason) from the northbridge. Very flexible and surprisingly secure too! I have one to go on mine when i upgrade to C2Q.

Deffo worth a look. :)

Will be interesting to see how you get on with the install fella!

gt
 
cool

update, still cant get TAT to run. downloaded a plugin for rivatuner and it matches everest, saying 55 degress idle on core 1 :(
 
Hey guys finally I see some "action":






Im on the stock cooler (with a few mods to make it quieter & safer) because my xp-120 didnt fit contrary to this artical:
http://www.legionhardware.com/document.php?id=643&p=2

This is a random overclock, I didnt want to go mad only having a stock cooler. Can anyone make sence of these temps? I set the bios to alarm over 70'c and I got an alarm when core temp 0.95 went over 70'c. Also in the first overclock I had the voltage options set to AUTO and it bumped the CPU voltage up to 1.4v with a lot higher temperatures.

Ill go for more if the temperature is ok. What do u think?
 
Hi m8, according to speed fan : load 1.3v idle 1.3v; and it is moving since on auto it went to 1.4v (in the first overclock). This is with 1.325v set in the bios (set it to the default of the CPU).



Edit more like 1.38v idle 1.36 load. Running orthos at 3.15Ghz
 
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ok, i've just done the orthos thing, left it for ten minutes, never went over 70 degrees under load, currently idling at 50. cant complain. Dropped vcore to 1.3 manual overide.

seems to be stable at 3.1gig, fsb 345, 9x mutli
 
update:

Im now getting blue screens after the vista splash screen.

seems to be either my x-fi card, I se creative have put some 64 bit drivers up with a date of the 30th may, I wonder if there is a problem with these.
 
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