DDR3 on Gigabyte P35C-DS3R

synixx · 7 Mar 2009 at 11:36

I'm thinking of jumping on the DDR3 deal on this week only offer considering I have DDR3 support on my mobo, but i've heard that with DDR3 overclocks are restricted by quite a bit.

Can anybody with this mobo and DDR3 share their experiences?

synixx · 7 Mar 2009 at 22:54

anybody?

expresas · 8 Mar 2009 at 08:02

i have same question, waiting for an answer too. thanks.

Wolf11 · 8 Mar 2009 at 15:11

expresas said:
i have same question, waiting for an answer too. thanks.

Ditto

alex24 · 8 Mar 2009 at 15:35

Another here!

Only thing is, there are just 2 slots compared to DDR2s 4 slots, so above 4GB will be impossible, but it's not really needed just yet.

Frozen_Texas · 13 Mar 2009 at 12:06

imho it's not worth doing, p35 is relatively old. btw you will not get much performance because of this change. stay with ddr2 when you have this mobo.

if you really want ddr3 then go to i7

SlyReaper · 13 Mar 2009 at 12:26

Here I am!

Yep, I went from DDR2-800 to DDR3-1333. Boot up times are slightly improved and I get a couple of extra FPS in games. The downside is my system has become somewhat unstable at my overclock. My CPU no longer likes staying at 3GHz, and occasionally resets at boot-up. This might be because my motherboard was cheap second hand stock and might have a borky DDR3 memory controller. Whatever, it works. Just.

alex24 · 13 Mar 2009 at 16:59

The GA-P35C-DS3R and other GB mobos from that age suffer a rebooting/black screen problem on even slight overclocks on some configurations. I've had problems since I added another 2 sticks to make 4GB. Only a complete reset of the BIOS (by taking out the battery) solved the problem, for now.

silent · 30 Mar 2009 at 16:22

i have this ddr3 combo and Q8200 cpu and 4 gig of corsair 1333mhz ram. my overclock won't settle at any o/c above 375 fsb x 7.

apparently my i should get higher but could it be a mobo problem - gb P35C DS3R rev 2.0?