Official Gigabyte DS3 Owners Thread

pieman109 · 30 Aug 2006 at 20:22

Cob said:
Is the ram refusing to run at 2.1v @800Mhz 4-4-4-12?

Ram is at 798mhz 5-6-6-12, 1.8v. As previously stated, I can't get the memory past +3v otherwise I get a failure.

Cob · 30 Aug 2006 at 20:25

You shouldn't need to go past +0.3v.

pieman109 · 30 Aug 2006 at 20:33

jaric said:
Are you dropping the memory multipier down to 2 as you increase the fsb ?

I'm dropping the multi and keeping the memory below 800 at all times other than when I'm at stock.

pieman109 · 30 Aug 2006 at 20:34

colly said:
what slots are you using ?

I'vre tried both sets of dimm slots, no difference.

pieman109 · 30 Aug 2006 at 20:37

Cob said:
You shouldn't need to go past +0.3v.

But I shouldn't have a failure of any description showing up in the bios just by selecting +4v. This might be impacting on the overclock attempt. I've also seen 1.17v for the core in easytune5 when it was set to 1.4v.
I get the impression that either voltages are being reported wrongly or the bpard is severely undervolting.

wellibob · 30 Aug 2006 at 20:57

OOer you are having problems. If it was me, i`d be inclined to test the ram in another board, to see if thats an issue, and then test each component in turn. It may not be practical, but you`ll soon find out.

colly · 30 Aug 2006 at 21:05

well for me i was having problems but cleared the cmos and also chaned the ram slots and all is fine now

pieman109 · 30 Aug 2006 at 21:06

wellibob said:
OOer you are having problems. If it was me, i`d be inclined to test the ram in another board, to see if thats an issue, and then test each component in turn. It may not be practical, but you`ll soon find out.

Not worth it mate, this memory runs at 798mhz @ 1.8v :confused:

, prime stable at 5-6-6-12. Imho its not worth tightening the timings 'cos with ANY overclock the pc just bombs out and is totally useless. besides, I don't have another mobo to try the memory in.
BUT, it runs like stonker with everything at stock.

wellibob · 30 Aug 2006 at 21:15

I assume your not happy with stock settings , so lob the motherboard back at the retailer and get another to try. Its hard to pinpoint any issues unless you have access to other computers/parts.

pieman109 · 30 Aug 2006 at 21:39

Oh I'm happy with the performance so far, but like the majority of ppl here I bought this mobo to overclock, not stay at stock. I like the idea of £600 performance for £130.
Whats bugged me is that no matter what I do, even if I raise the fsb to 285mhz, the pc bombs out. Now ANY cpu would overclock even that amount, its only 19mhz, without any adjustments in the bios. This indicates the mobo to me is faulty.
Think I'll try the asus P5B, I'm getting nowhere with this gigabyte and I doubt that ocuk would allow an rma on this mobo 'cos it runs fine at stock, and testing will show this.

Hugest_UK · 30 Aug 2006 at 21:53

pieman,

dont give up mate. I had similar problems but now am sitting at 3.3Ghz stable. The most important thing I have found with my DS3 is to clear the bios by removing the bios battery after a failed overclock and EVERY bios flash. So if you push it too hard and it fails reset the bios and try again.

I was having exactly the same probs as you as soon as i tried to adjust memory settings from auto to manual the board would fail prime. Then even if i put the memory back to auto and put all other settings back to stock it would still fail prime until i cleared the bios!

My board also says fail on the mem voltage test in bios if you put more than 0.3 through it becuase the board thinks above 2.1 is outside the limits (its a bug). You should only need 0.2 on the voltage for your Geil i have the same memory.

I could not get any manual settings on the memory to work with F4 bios until i did this so try this too might work!:

flash to f4e bios and then set cpu voltage to 1.425 and then set your memory timings to 4-4-4-12 and set the fsb to 400. Worked for me ok at 3.2 on my 6400. Then once id done this and tested stable with prime i flashed back to F4 and for some bizarre reason i could then set manual memory timings and overclock without failing prime. Weird but true. ALWAYS CLEAR THE CMOS AFTER A BIOS FLASH WITH THE DS3!

Cheers,
Hugest

Jobe · 30 Aug 2006 at 21:59

i agree with H uk.

Try upping the fsb way past what you're trying for.
I couldn't get past 315 so i upped it to 350 and bingo.
Haven't tried any higher yet, i'm just happy i'm getting somewhere.

Jobe

pieman109 · 30 Aug 2006 at 22:44

Hugest_UK said:
pieman,

dont give up mate. I had similar problems but now am sitting at 3.3Ghz stable. The most important thing I have found with my DS3 is to clear the bios by removing the bios battery after a failed overclock and EVERY bios flash. So if you push it too hard and it fails reset the bios and try again.

I was having exactly the same probs as you as soon as i tried to adjust memory settings from auto to manual the board would fail prime. Then even if i put the memory back to auto and put all other settings back to stock it would still fail prime until i cleared the bios!

My board also says fail on the mem voltage test in bios if you put more than 0.3 through it becuase the board thinks above 2.1 is outside the limits (its a bug). You should only need 0.2 on the voltage for your Geil i have the same memory.

I could not get any manual settings on the memory to work with F4 bios until i did this so try this too might work!:

flash to f4e bios and then set cpu voltage to 1.425 and then set your memory timings to 4-4-4-12 and set the fsb to 400. Worked for me ok at 3.2 on my 6400. Then once id done this and tested stable with prime i flashed back to F4 and for some bizarre reason i could then set manual memory timings and overclock without failing prime. Weird but true. ALWAYS CLEAR THE CMOS AFTER A BIOS FLASH WITH THE DS3!

Cheers,
Hugest

Ahha, sounds useful, I'll give that lot a whirl tomoz, thanks.

colly · 30 Aug 2006 at 23:52

same here dude dont give up i couldnt even clock mine at all nothing just went into the reboot thing even tried std pci graphix thought that would help
but the way i got it to work was clear the cmos then moved the ram to the red sockets and went up to 400 m8 dual primed it for 15 hrs and its was fine
good luck

CatMangler · 31 Aug 2006 at 12:29

Hmm this sounds useful, I'm also struggling to get mine past 300fsb.

I've only got the stock hsf so I wont be going for 400fsb without additional cooling.

Do ya think 350 would be safe?

Recently I have set everything back to default and it looks like voltages are being reported wrongly by the bios/motherboard.

CPU = 1.33v
12V rail = 0.00v

Will clear cmos and try again

McDaniel · 31 Aug 2006 at 17:14

Ok, been playing today

6400 / DS3 / 2GB Geil 6400 Ram - Stock Cooler.

Currently got it at 3.2GHz, 400*8, Ram 4-4-4-12

45mins into SP2004 and all is well temps not gone over 54Degrees

3D Mark 01 @ Stock was 26,642 with Stock 7600GT

3D Mark 01 @ 3.2GHz with stock 7600GT, 33,694

Should push a bit more when i clock the 7600GT - SP2004 still running now and CPU usage been 100% for the whole time, its looking good

RobK · 31 Aug 2006 at 19:03

Duke said:
Example BIOS Setup

I'm probably going to look stupid here but shouldn't the Precharge delay (tRAS) be set to 15 and the ACT to ACT delay be Auto? I thought 5-5-5-15 timings referred to CAS Latency - RAS to CAS delay - RAS Precharge - Precharge delay?

Cob · 31 Aug 2006 at 21:40

You'd be right.

CatMangler · 1 Sep 2006 at 14:17

pieman109 said:
Ahha, sounds useful, I'll give that lot a whirl tomoz, thanks.

Hows it going Pieman??

Did you manage to oc or have you returned the DS3?

neocon · 1 Sep 2006 at 16:16

Why is my memory running at 667mhz?

When I used EasyTune to change it to 800mhz, I crashed on loading couterstrikesource.