BIOS for DS3 (not DS3P) for OCing

FrenchTart · 8 May 2007 at 15:28

Hi there.

I've not messed with my oc for a few months now...

Originally, I switched to a 4300 from a 6400 (I thought the extra multi might help, and it cost negative money to do so, so heyho) and though I can hit roughly the same clock speed on the processor (~3.2ghz), I can't seem to get the thing to work at 400 FSB (dropped the multi back down....oh the irony).

Now, at the same time as switching, I also moved to Crucial Anniversary ram and *may* have updated my BIOS. Like I said, it's been a few months

Anyhow, I've finally got a little time to play with it and try to sort the problem. I was wondering if anyone had any recommendations for a BIOS version to use as I've seen mixed reports about the later versions that are available. Some say that F8 is better for oc'ing than F10 or whatever....

Any help will be muchly appreciated

Cob · 8 May 2007 at 15:32

I've found F10 to be the best. F8 gave me boot problems.

Some people swear by F5, but it's not suitable for those of us with Micron D9 based memory.

gt_junkie · 8 May 2007 at 15:32

I had a DS3 revision 1 with the F10 bios.

I used a low multiplier on my e6600 so i wasn't overclocking it and had very very loose timings on my GEIL pc2 6400.

In the end i got the FSB to 470 with very little effort.

Just watch that northbridge as it gets hot! :eek:

gt

FrenchTart · 8 May 2007 at 15:36

Indeed. The NB gets rather toasty

I swapped out the HS for the thermalright NB-cooler a while back. Doesn't seem to have done much but heyho, looks nice I guess....

IIRC, the Crucial Anniversary stuff is Micron D9 chips, is it not? Guess I'll steer clear of F5 then

What's comical is that previously I did have the FSB at 400, or about 450/460 when I played with some other setting. I've no idea what I messed up in order to leave it stuck at about 360 :/ (it wasn't when I swapped then NB heatsink)

I guess it's been too long since I've looked at it - really need to remind myself just what on earth I've set it all to

Cob · 8 May 2007 at 15:50

Yip the Crucial Anny is D9.

And tbh 400x7 should present no problems to a e6300. Their main issues usually involve memory not being fast enough to keep up, and you won't have that problem with the Anny stuff.

FrenchTart · 8 May 2007 at 15:57

Indeed. That's the odd thing.

On my 6400, 400x8 worked fine.
(sorry, typo earlier - it was a 6400, not a 6300)

On the 4300, 360something x 9 works.
Dropping the multi to 8 and trying 400 FSB doesn't work :?

As said, though, there's loads of extra variables that I introduced so I've probably messed something up somewhere.

gt_junkie · 8 May 2007 at 16:30

The only advice i could give is not to overvolt everything to try to increase stability!

I initially made that mistake and couldn't get past 420mhz fsb.

When i tried for 470 i reset everything to stock and only upped my Northbridge voltage by 0.1v and took my geil to 2.3v.

gt

FrenchTart · 8 May 2007 at 16:34

Good plan. Could well be my problem

I'll post back with my results once I get a chance to give this all a good going-over, so to speak.