Intel Update: Conroe!

nikebee · 27 Jul 2006 at 10:58

thefish said:
the board has two bios so if you mess up settings you have the option of booting from the other bios

i'm pretty sure the DS3 doesn't use a dual bios method like most Gigabyte boards do. it usual a virtual bios as a backup rather than a second physical bios chip.

uvarvu · 27 Jul 2006 at 11:09

My x6800 shipped on monday 17th, still waiting for it at the moment.
Needless to say a refund has been requested.

The Asgard · 27 Jul 2006 at 11:14

Just recieved my X6300 dispatch note

Many thanks OcUK for getting the chip out to me.

Roll on Tommorrow

Ozymandias · 27 Jul 2006 at 11:16

nikebee said:
i'm pretty sure the DS3 doesn't use a dual bios method like most Gigabyte boards do. it usual a virtual bios as a backup rather than a second physical bios chip.

Yes, it's the DS4 that has the dual bios

killer_uk · 27 Jul 2006 at 11:23

Ozymandias said:
Yes, it's the DS4 that has the dual bios

It sure has, seems like a great board at the moment as well.

djay · 27 Jul 2006 at 11:34

ozzy said:
Yea I'm rocking a Celly 326.. runs my 7950XXX fine.. erm... not.

I bought the exact same cpu just so i could flash my Asus P5W DH ready for me E6600 that as we all know has not materialised. I must say though im quite impressed with it. I have it running currently on a 200fsb for 3.8ghz

using an arctic cooler, its converting an avi to mpeg at the mo and it's hovering around 67c. That is at 1.5v, although the asus vdroop prob makes it 1.45 under load. I must say im pretty new to the Intel side again so not sure what is the standard clock for these. But for a £30 cpu, a 1.3ghz overclock is not too shabby so far.

Let the Celly 326 clocking wars begin!!

Tooks · 27 Jul 2006 at 11:36

Darn it!! I tried to resist this Conroe malarky, as I felt my D940 was only a little slower than the E6300....

But, that's with the E6300 at stock vs my OC'd 940, so I couldn't resist and have just ordered one for some overclocking action this weekend!!

I've already got a DS3 board, so I'll let you know how it goes!

trojan698 · 27 Jul 2006 at 11:37

Ozymandias said:
Yes, it's the DS4 that has the dual bios

So does the DS3

Hidden Hippo · 27 Jul 2006 at 11:55

I still don't really get what the dual bios does. Would someone care to explain? Tooks, if you would say how that board goes we'd all be greateful I expect. Thanks.

ozzy · 27 Jul 2006 at 11:56

djay said:
I bought the exact same cpu just so i could flash my Asus P5W DH ready for me E6600 that as we all know has not materialised. I must say though im quite impressed with it. I have it running currently on a 200fsb for 3.8ghz using an arctic cooler, its converting an avi to mpeg at the mo and it's hovering around 67c. That is at 1.5v, although the asus vdroop prob makes it 1.45 under load. I must say im pretty new to the Intel side again so not sure what is the standard clock for these. But for a £30 cpu, a 1.3ghz overclock is not too shabby so far.

Let the Celly 326 clocking wars begin!!

Hehehe yea mine is sitting at 3.2, it was running at 3.8 but its so hot in here I dont want to melt my P5W-DH lol

But yea, for a cheapo chip its ok..

Stelly · 27 Jul 2006 at 11:59

trojan698 said:
So does the DS3

Sort of

Stelly

djay · 27 Jul 2006 at 12:07

Hidden Hippo said:
I still don't really get what the dual bios does. Would someone care to explain? Tooks, if you would say how that board goes we'd all be greateful I expect. Thanks.

Dual Bios is essentially 2 bios chips on one motherboard IIRC. Basically you are safe if one bios corrupts or you suffer a bad flash, power cut whilst updating the bios etc. You can still boot from the second chip and reflash the corrupted bios.

mearle73 · 27 Jul 2006 at 12:10

Theres only one bios chip on my ds3 the back up for it,is stored on the hard drive as an image file,this is no way as good a set up as the gigabyte boards that have 2 bios chips.

Stelly · 27 Jul 2006 at 12:12

mearle73 said:
Theres only one bios chip on my ds3 the back up for it,is stored on the hard drive as an image file,this is no way as good a set up as the gigabyte boards that have 2 bios chips.

The DS4 has dual BIOS for certian

Stelly

The Asgard · 27 Jul 2006 at 12:41

Stelly said:
The DS4 has dual BIOS for certian

Stelly

Confirmed with my DS4

Stelly · 27 Jul 2006 at 12:47

The Asgard said:
Confirmed with my DS4

Me too

Stelly

casw1000 · 27 Jul 2006 at 12:50

Here's looking forward to the weekend

I just changed my order from an E6400 to a 6300OEM.

Have fun to all those who get their orders by the weekend.

-casw1000

dafloppyone · 27 Jul 2006 at 12:51

bah evil mobo guys hijacking the thread!!!!

AWAY DEMONS!!!

allwood · 27 Jul 2006 at 12:53

Gigabyte have used dual bio's for quite sometime, i have 2 systems that use gigabtye motherboards one is over 4 years old with a 1ghz athlon that has dual bios and another with an 1700 xp which also has it, i've always found the higher end gigabtye boards excelent for overclocking. I've got by ds4 sitting itching for my e6300 which should hopefully arrive tommorrow.

cliffy · 27 Jul 2006 at 13:08

still no shipping confirmation, Hoping i get it soon i got half a day at work tomorrow!