DS4 better overclocker than DS3?

mishima · 5 Mar 2007 at 23:05

Hi there,

Thanks for the advice in the other thread on the DS3, me and my brother have been discussing what motherboard to get and he wants to know whether the DS4 is a better overclocker than the DS3. The cooling system on the motherboard seems a lot better and he is wondering if its worth the extra if its going to be a worse overclocker etc.

Your thoughts and advice please,

Much appreciated!

Scoobie Dave · 5 Mar 2007 at 23:58

From what I know I think they overclock the same, if anything the fancy cooler on the DS4 just gets in the way when your fitting your cpu cooler.

furnace · 6 Mar 2007 at 00:01

Naw, there's loadsa clearance on the DS4!

The DS4 is a lovely piece of work

It might be able to run very slightly higher voltages on the chips, but probably nothing worth mentioning... But it looks really pretty

Warpy · 6 Mar 2007 at 01:13

Interesting, so over-clocking with this board is just as good as the DS3?

Scoobie Dave · 6 Mar 2007 at 09:02

Warpy said:
Interesting, so over-clocking with this board is just as good as the DS3?

Yep.

mishima · 6 Mar 2007 at 09:11

Seems to me that the DS4 is pretty much the same board except it has a different cooling solution (heatpipe) and has support for firewire. Thanks for your input guys!

MeatLoaf · 6 Mar 2007 at 10:39

Ive had both and apart from the cooling solution the only real difference is the DS3 lacks firewire

furnace · 6 Mar 2007 at 11:08

Doesnt the DS4 have more SATA ports too?

MeatLoaf · 6 Mar 2007 at 12:06

Mite have, i think the DS4 has 2 extra. Got 8 on my DS4, cant remeber how many the DS3 had

Scoobie Dave · 6 Mar 2007 at 13:21

MeatLoaf said:
Mite have, i think the DS4 has 2 extra. Got 8 on my DS4, cant remeber how many the DS3 had

Just to confirm my DS3 has got 6.

Cuchulain · 6 Mar 2007 at 13:25

furnace said:
Naw, there's loadsa clearance on the DS4!

The DS4 is a lovely piece of work It might be able to run very slightly higher voltages on the chips, but probably nothing worth mentioning... But it looks really pretty

There's not "loads of clearance", not if you're fitting a decent cooler, the fan on my Ninja has to either sit on top of the heatpipe cooler or the ram, neither of which is an ideal solution.

wizardmaxx · 6 Mar 2007 at 13:30

I have the Thermaltake Sonic Tower on a DS4 and with the duct mod I've done cool air is blown over the heatsink, mobo cooling system and memory, so all runs peachy. Have run the cpu at 1.49V so far no problem.

SpudMaster · 6 Mar 2007 at 15:32

ds4 also has an extra pci-e socket and can run crossfire, though i think the second socket only runs at 4x so not great