Gigabyte DS3P

Virtually all the problems have been ironed out now since the sticky was created last summer.

It's a cracking board.
 
After 11 revisions of the BIOS, it does a very good job :cool: There have been a few revisions of the board itself, but I don't think they changed much.
 
The DS3P is a very nice board. It overclocks nicly without any BIOS updates, I never actually updated the BIOS.. come to think of it.
 
kingo15 said:
isnt the p board only up to bois f5?
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Yes. The DS3P is at version F5. I am using F4 and have no problems at all. I don't plan on taking the chance in going to the F5 version as there is nothing wrong with the one i have and have an excellent and stable overclock.
 
I wish I got this board and a SATA drive instead of the P5N-E. Had so much trouble with a bad batch of those motherboards. Just want something nice and stable that will overclock well.
 
i updated my bois to the f5 from the f4 because it wont boot with the crucial pc8500 memory in it. update no probs turned out to be one stick of faulty memory. but the ds3p is a cracking board i think i have a standard asus p5b in my 2nd pc and now im used to this one i reckon its a much better board for overclocking.
 
A quick question. Can you run a single graphics card in either of 2 PCI-E slots? Or does it have to be the top one?
 
I have the S3 version and it does have one big drawback - you can't change the FSB:RAM ratio. Which means my E6600 is overclocked to a stupendous 2.43Ghz at present to avoid overstretching my 533Mhz DDR2 RAM. (It BSOD's at anything over about 275 on the FSB, less if stressed by something like FSX). There's not even an option to reduce the multiplier for the RAM below 2x.

I'm only after an o/c to 2.8 or thereabouts which at 3:4 would give a RAM speed of about 466Mhz. Very frustrated and beginning to wish I'd bought an Intel or Asus board instead. Guess I could buy some 800Mhz RAM but I've already incurred wrath of 'er indoors at the money spent so far and the cheapest (Geil) appears to be less than robust with this board.
 
^ What RAM have you got? I don't think it's the S3's fault that your RAM won't go 20MHz past its standard clock. Mostly it's the FSB not the RAM that causes the problem, so your RAM must be another kind of rubbish!
 
Robbie G said:
^ What RAM have you got? I don't think it's the S3's fault that your RAM won't go 20MHz past its standard clock. Mostly it's the FSB not the RAM that causes the problem, so your RAM must be another kind of rubbish!
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Not sure, it's pretty cheapo though having been recovered from a Packard Bell iMedia PC. I can live with my .03Ghz O/C for now, main reason was to point out that the S3 (and its bigger peers) isn't quite as good as some of the praise lavished on it would have one believe.
 
Ram is soooooooooooo cheap, it would be in your favour to upgrade, 2gig of geil for under £60. I prefer the crucial 5300, it's amazing ram for the price, runs @ 980, 4.4.4.10 on stock volts.
 
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