Gigabyte GA-965P DS3 - revisions?

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Guys,

Wondering if someone can answer me a quick question? Maybe someone who works at OCUK might stumble upon this?

Has anyone recently bought the Gigabyte GA-965P DS3 from OCUK? And if so, what revision are they currently stocking...Rev 1 or Rev 2???

I emailed the customer services to ask what revision they had in stock but they replied and said they couldn't guarantee which revision I would receive if I ordered.

I wasnt asking for them to give me a "You'll definatley get a revision 2" answer...just a "Looks like the stock we have is revision 2" would have done

Lazy methinks :( Don't these guys want my money??

I'd appreciate it if anyone can chime in (specially if you've recently bought this board from this site)

Cheers guys :)
 
Got one about a month ago and it was a rev 3.3. The rev 3.3 has been around for quite a while so I would be surprised if you got a rev 1.0 or 2.0
 
jaric said:
Got one about a month ago and it was a rev 3.3. The rev 3.3 has been around for quite a while so I would be surprised if you got a rev 1.0 or 2.0
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Jaric,

I am thinking about buying the exact same Mobo, Ram and CPU as you and trying a little overclocking.

What cooling are you using and was it easy to get that CD2 to the speeds in your sig? Wouldn't mind picking your brains on that if I go through with this purchase :cool:

I also have an X1800XT (Which I'll be replacing a little later on)
 
obiwanquinobi` said:
Jaric,

I am thinking about buying the exact same Mobo, Ram and CPU as you and trying a little overclocking.

What cooling are you using and was it easy to get that CD2 to the speeds in your sig? Wouldn't mind picking your brains on that if I go through with this purchase :cool:

I also have an X1800XT (Which I'll be replacing a little later on)
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Was able to hit about 3Ghz fairly easily at stock volts but needed a bit of tweaking to get the extra 300Mhz or so. Had to loosen the RAM timings to 5-5-5-15 and bump up the vcore to 1.4v in BIOS, which gives about 1.36v idle and 1.34v under load.
The CPU, NB & X1800XT are all watercooled but quite a few people have got 3Ghz+ with a decent air cooler.

There's some useful info in the Official Gigabyte DS3 Owners Thread here ,which is worth a read through if you havent already.
 
OK guys,

Another question? (Using this thread rather than create another)

What's the onboard sound like on the DS3?

I have an Audigy 2 ZS and don't really care for it much to be honest...if the Onboard sound is as good or better, I'll use it!! Just wondering what sort of performance hit I should expect by using the onboard as opposed to the Audigy 2?

Using onboard will also save me a PCI slot and save some clutter in the case too...

Thoughts anyone?
 
As far as I'm aware this board is the same as the S3 just different capacitors. If so, and the sound being the same, then the onboard sound is very very good. However though, I'd imagine the Audigy 2 to be a little better, being proper dedicated sound hardware. I still love the onboard though, got it ran through my amp and getting a very clear quadrophonic setup :)
 
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