Gigabyte and Abit P35 boards questions

[Rroff]

My gigabyte P35 DS3R does 500FSB comfortably with both an E6600 and Q6600...

I get bad vdroop on my gigabyte board - the top (senesible) option 1.6v (then jumps to 1.8 with current BIOS ) only gives 1.55volts at full load on the CPU which isn't enough to get much beyond 3.7gig stable with the E6600 and 3.5gig with the Q6600.

EDIT: I say comfortably... I only ran orthos on 2 cores for about an hour with the Q6600 in - whether or not it would run through a full 24 hour priming on all 4 cores or not is another matter.

 

[WJA96]

I'm thinking of getting the X38 DQ6...

WJA96 have you had experience with this mobo?

Nope. I never buy the first of any chipset (the exception was the ASUS P5N-E 650i board) and I tend not to buy the mega-expensive ones as they're shocking value for money. Of course, if Gigabyte want to send me one to test...

 

[BUFF]

Not saying it's impossible but You would have to be very lucky to get 500fsb with a Q6600 on the Abit ip35-e....as the board i tried got absolutely nowhere near.

maybe you were just unlucky with your particular board or perhaps something else (CPU, RAM etc.) was the limiting factor on that board?
Your Gigabyte screenie is only 445fsb too but I'm sure that plenty of people have managed over 500fsb with a quad on 1 of those as well.

 

[vocch]

maybe you were just unlucky with your particular board or perhaps something else (CPU, RAM etc.) was the limiting factor on that board?
Your Gigabyte screenie is only 445fsb too but I'm sure that plenty of people have managed over 500fsb with a quad on 1 of those as well.

Nah m8...i think it was the board as when tried got the same with 8x multi....and i've only seen hight fsb with E chips on Abit ip35-e...if there are any Q6600 + Abit ip35-e that does 500fsb i bet you can count them on 1 hand (rare)....and i think you got mixed up as my Gigabyte is P65 and won't do 400fsb stable...the 445fsb is the Abit.