Gigabyte GA 965P DS4 Question

Mista.Gee · 5 Jan 2007 at 13:02

I've just been given a Gigabyte GA 965P DS4 brand new still sealed in the box not even touched. I was thinking of building another core 2 duo system on this motherboard but i need to know is it any good?

vanandjuanunited · 5 Jan 2007 at 13:03

either readthe sticky or google is your friend.

Cuchulain · 5 Jan 2007 at 13:05

geepee said:
I've just been given a Gigabyte GA 965P DS4 brand new still sealed in the box not even touched. I was thinking of building another core 2 duo system on this motherboard but i need to know is it any good?

It's a very good board, I have no trouble with it at all and it's great for overclocking.

Mista.Gee · 5 Jan 2007 at 13:26

Thinking about using an E6300 and 2x1GB Corsair Value Select DDR2 PC-5300 667 good choice do you think. I noticed the sticky and i'll google up on it later tonight really looking forward to building another core 2 duo system.

Cuchulain · 5 Jan 2007 at 13:27

geepee said:
Thinking about using an E6300 and 2x1GB Corsair Value Select DDR2 PC-5300 667 good choice do you think. I noticed the sticky and i'll google up on it later tonight really looking forward to building another core 2 duo system.

Never used that memory, the Geil I'm using works perfectly though.

WJA96 · 5 Jan 2007 at 13:50

The OcUK PC6400 Value RAM is cheaper and faster. You need fast RAM as there is no divider under 2 on the DS4, so the faster the memory the better.

Mista.Gee · 5 Jan 2007 at 14:12

What you suggest on a good brand memory as i thought the Corsair Value Select DDR2 PC-5300 would have been O.K?

WJA96 · 5 Jan 2007 at 14:28

OK - Once you get to work with the DS4 you'll understand better, but if you want to overclock the E6300 then you'll start off at 266MHZ/1066MHz for the processor and 266MHz/533MHz for the RAM.

If you want to increase the FSB of the processor to 300/1200MHz then the RAM needs to be capable of 300/600MHz. As every E6300 ever made will run at FSB400/1600 then you need RAM that will run at 400/800, and preferably clock a bit beyond that.

If you're never going to overclock, then the Corsair will be fine, but the OcUK Value RAM is Elixir RAM (pretty decent) and it outperforms more expensive 'branded' RAM quite significantly. As FSB's climb higher all the time (333/1333 is the new target FSB for stock Intel processors) you will find PC4200 and PC5300 RAM increasingly hard to sell (like PC2100 vs. PC3200 RAM for AMD systems) and that is why I would recommend the OcUK Value RAM. If you really want to spend a load of money on a branded product then the OCZ Platinum is on special this week and you can't really go wrong with Corsair XMS2 which is £30 more than the significantly worse specification Corsair Value RAM or £40 more than the similarly specified OcUK Value RAM. Whatever you buy though, I would buy at least PC6400 RAM.

Mista.Gee · 5 Jan 2007 at 14:32

The Corsair XMS2 sounds quite decent, although i'm not an overclocker but maybe worth the extra to get decent memory. I'm also thinking of picking up Vista Premium soon so this i hope will be good to go.

arfur · 5 Jan 2007 at 14:59

I use Geil 6400 on mine and it runs at 3.2Gig no probs, cooling is excellent on it as well