Gigabyte GA 965P-DS3P

[Darg]

I wonder if it's possible to go a cheap route and use a garden fountain system with deionised water pouring over the components... Would be interesting to try

 

[WJA96]

I wonder if it's possible to go a cheap route and use a garden fountain system with deionised water pouring over the components... Would be interesting to try

What ever happened to the guys with the dual PIII system in the bath full of baby oil? That worked really well I seem to remember!

 

[pastymuncher]

What waterblock you gonna use?

I was going to get a Maze4 chipset but one of the guys on here said the XSPC X20 chipset blocks are quite good. As i found one a tenner cheaper than the DD i have gone for one of those. If it's no good i can always change it. Apparently the EK NF4 blocks fit these boards but you may have to fiddle with the orientation of the block. I just wanted a block with very little restriction as i will also be adding an EK 8800gts block to fit my new EVGA card. I will still have three blocks in the loop as i will be taking out my pair of MP-1's. Should be all reconfigured by Tuesday next week. Hopefully.

 

[Darg]

What ever happened to the guys with the dual PIII system in the bath full of baby oil? That worked really well I seem to remember!

Yea I was thinking of that video as I posted actually. Would sure be handy.. Deep fried crispy chicken while playing wwiio. mmm. Damnit now I'm hungry.

 

[knyght_byte]

hiya guys,

scuse my first post being a little short on info, but first time away from a Dell PC

Just got a new setup, Antec Sonata II with its 450watt PSU (have removed the strange plastic pipe assembly inside as it wont fit over my CPU cooler), E6300 (B2), DS3 mobo, 2Gb (4x512) Geil 6400 RAM (basically see the overclockers bundle package), Samsung 250Gb HDD (8mb cache, 7,200rpm), Artic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro cooler, and a dual layer DVD-/+RW......oh and Gainward 8800GTS 640mb.....on WinXP

stock speeds i'm getting approx 41c on the cores idle and around 48 load (iirc)

have installed Easytune5 and hit the CIA2 tab and chose Racing.....

CPU speed goes up to 2163....temp idle at 41c'ish still due to EIST etc being enabled, however load goes up to around 55c on each core when using TAT to stress......

does that sound ok? as in not likely to damage the PC..heh....i've got a fan arriving tomorrow for the front of the case so hopefully will draw in a bit more cool air......what would be a danger point for overclocking this? ie if temp hits 60c do i start to worry?...heh....basically i'd like to get up to around 2.6ghz, i'll be happy enough with that.....

is it possible i havnt seated the Freezer 7 Pro properly? it had thermal stuff already on its base so i didnt use the Artic Silver i bought, should i remove the Freezer 7, clean the two sides and use the Artic Silver?

scuse all the questions...heh, all help appreciated and happy to return the favour in regards to AV equipment where my main hobby lies

(should mention perhaps that my room has an ambient temp of around 28-30c due to my Projector, PC and Denon AV amp plus MF A5 stereo amp all being on....lol.....just in case that might not help me with internal temps as the PC will be pulling in relatively warm air)

 

[Darg]

A lot of conroe cpus come with a concave heatspreader. Basically that means it doesn't get a good contact with your HSF and thus results in higher temperatures. This could be the case here. I would take out your cpu and clean off the gunk from the Arctic Freezer. Then take a razer blade or another sharp straight edge and place it on the cpu heatspreader. If you notice a gap between the blade and the cpu in the middle then it is concaved.

To fix this you will have to lap your CPU, basically sand it down with fine sandpaper until the top is perfectly flat. This isn't as hard to do as it sounds but you still have to be careful as always with such an expensive piece of equipment

Do a search and you'll find many lapping guides for conroe cpus around and on these forums. All you'll need is some 800 and 1200 grain sandpaper and a flat surface.

Once you have that done then put the arctic freezer back on with some AS5. That should do the trick nicely. Remember if you're pushing the 6300 past 2.7 or so you'll have to bump up the cpu voltage to around 1.4-1.5 and also bump up the northbridge volts by 0.1 or so.

 

[knyght_byte]

A lot of conroe cpus come with a concave heatspreader. Basically that means it doesn't get a good contact with your HSF and thus results in higher temperatures. This could be the case here. I would take out your cpu and clean off the gunk from the Arctic Freezer. Then take a razer blade or another sharp straight edge and place it on the cpu heatspreader. If you notice a gap between the blade and the cpu in the middle then it is concaved.

To fix this you will have to lap your CPU, basically sand it down with fine sandpaper until the top is perfectly flat. This isn't as hard to do as it sounds but you still have to be careful as always with such an expensive piece of equipment

Do a search and you'll find many lapping guides for conroe cpus around and on these forums. All you'll need is some 800 and 1200 grain sandpaper and a flat surface.

Once you have that done then put the arctic freezer back on with some AS5. That should do the trick nicely. Remember if you're pushing the 6300 past 2.7 or so you'll have to bump up the cpu voltage to around 1.4-1.5 and also bump up the northbridge volts by 0.1 or so.

cheers....was wondering what lapping was as i'd seen people mention it...lol

beginning to wish i'd gone for the 6600 after all now...

sandpaper shouldnt be a problem, dad used to sell the stuff as a tool wholesaler, he had just about every grain going...lhopefully he bought some home before he packed up the business

by heatspreader, i take it you mean the back of the CPU basically?

thing is, compared what i see a lot of people state, my temps dont sound massively high.....but it all goes manky soon as i get much past 2ghz....temps are around 54 at 2.1ghz since i altered the fan settings...

ah well, cheers for the info, i'll play STALKER for a week first, then give this lapping thing a go...lol

 

[Darg]

You probably have to raise the voltage before your CPU will go higher. It's odd that it can't get higher on stock volts but it could be one of the ones that use 1.28V on stock. Still though it should go higher.

More volts = more heat though so I would lap your cpu before trying to increase the voltage.

For overclocking I would not use easytune or any windows based programs. The DS3 has a very understandable BIOS and there are many many guides around to help you overclock. Check page 1 of the Gigabyte DS3 owners thread. Reset your BIOS before changing anything and then follow the instructions exactly.

Again, do not use windows based programs to overclock. That could be a large part of your problem.

 

[knyght_byte]

well i reseated the cooler today as i noticed one of the pointy feet hadnt gone thru

however now properly seated.....temps are same (and thats with a 120mm fan at the front of the case now pulling air in )

not sure i want to risk the lapping thing yet......cant afford to replace the parts in the PC should i screw it up and stuff melts...lol

ah well.....i'll have to settle with stock for now......its fast enough i guess for now...(the 8800GTS helps here..lol).....i can only use 1280x720 anyhow as i'm using my Projector as a monitor.....mebbe later in the year i'll give the lapping a go when i can afford to replace anything if i do bugger it up

cheers anyhow

 

[CompMan]

Gotta say your cpu temps are amazing if true. So full load your cpu is mid 30's? What cooling are you using?

Try coretemp 0.95 was known issue with 0.94 reporting low temps for 4300
also i think tat is correct