Official Gigabyte DS3 Owners Thread

Built my new rig yesterday, flashed straight to F5 and overclocked to 3.1Ghz in 3 steps, no problems at all, booted first time after the initial build. I am surprised how easy it has been so far, might try gfoing faster but dont think i really need to. Memory is at 4-4-4-12
 
ukmets said:
Built my new rig yesterday, flashed straight to F5 and overclocked to 3.1Ghz in 3 steps, no problems at all, booted first time after the initial build. I am surprised how easy it has been so far, might try gfoing faster but dont think i really need to. Memory is at 4-4-4-12
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Hi could you please give me some info. I have the same setup except for my E6600.

Are you haveing any DMA trouble on your dvd drive with this baord! whats DMA mode is it running in and what do you have your IDE controller set to in the bios.

thanks
 
ukmets said:
Built my new rig yesterday, flashed straight to F5 and overclocked to 3.1Ghz in 3 steps, no problems at all, booted first time after the initial build. I am surprised how easy it has been so far, might try gfoing faster but dont think i really need to. Memory is at 4-4-4-12
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Do prime (Orthos ;) ) it for at least 12 hours (Pref 24), I thought the same but found I kept failing at 21 hours, backed off to 3Ghz and so far have been 32 hours prime stable :D
 
jaydelux said:
Hi could you please give me some info. I have the same setup except for my E6600.

Are you haveing any DMA trouble on your dvd drive with this baord! whats DMA mode is it running in and what do you have your IDE controller set to in the bios.

thanks
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i left the ide setting in bios as IDE since i do not use raid. my primary ide channel is running in UDMA 5, i only have my dvd drive connected via ide.
 
hi im currently at 3GHz stock volts on cpu, manually input 4-4-4-12 and upped ram volts +0.3 = 2.1v, and am about to start priming using orthos, i have a couple of questions though if i may
1. there are 5 other options with ram timings and i wondered if these need altering from the default auto setting these are,
ACT-ACT delay=auto
Rank write to READ delay=auto
write to pre delay=auto
Refresh to ACT delay=0
Read to precharge delay=auto
2. also there are overvolts settings on FSB etc, as mentioned all ive added to atm is the ram
3. i assume i leave the system memory multiplyer at 2 and lock the pci-e at 100?
using F5 bios
any other advice will be welcome and ill let you know how the priming goes
cheers folks
 
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foamfollower said:
hi im currently at 3GHz stock volts on cpu, manually input 4-4-4-12 and upped ram volts +0.3 = 2.1v, and am about to start priming using orthos, i have a couple of questions though if i may
1. there are 5 other options with ram timings and i wondered if these need altering from the default auto setting these are,
ACT-ACT delay=auto
Rank write to READ delay=auto
write to pre delay=auto
Refresh to ACT delay=0
Read to precharge delay=auto
2. also there are overvolts settings on FSB etc, as mentioned all ive added to atm is the ram
3. i assume i leave the system memory multiplyer at 2 and lock the pci-e at 100?
using F5 bios
any other advice will be welcome and ill let you know how the priming goes
cheers folks
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I used the info given on the first page of this post and everything works really well.
 
ukmets said:
i left the ide setting in bios as IDE since i do not use raid. my primary ide channel is running in UDMA 5, i only have my dvd drive connected via ide.
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yeah i did that and i didnt get UDMA mode atall, i have to select raid eventhough am not using raid. my HDD is sata and my DVD is on ide, its working ok now tho with the raid setting, now its on detected at ultra DMA mode 5
 
Hi all

I just built an E6600, DS3 with Geil 2*1Gb kit set at 2.1V and 4-4-4-12 in the BIOS. But CPU-Z reports 3-4-4-12.

Anyone else seen this? Currently running memtest to see how it goes.

cheers
 
labrat said:
Hi all

I just built an E6600, DS3 with Geil 2*1Gb kit set at 2.1V and 4-4-4-12 in the BIOS. But CPU-Z reports 3-4-4-12.

Anyone else seen this? Currently running memtest to see how it goes.

cheers
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What BIOS version are you running? Update to version F5 if you already haven't and maybe that will fix your problem.

a lot of earlier BIOS revisions were causing memory problems...
 
Using F3 at the moment. I'm pretty wary of BIOS flashes. How good is the QFlash feature? And how good is F5?

It appears stable after some stress testing. I'll leave it for the moment but when I start overclocking I'll probably need to relax timings anyway.

cheers
 
labrat said:
Using F3 at the moment. I'm pretty wary of BIOS flashes. How good is the QFlash feature? And how good is F5?

It appears stable after some stress testing. I'll leave it for the moment but when I start overclocking I'll probably need to relax timings anyway.

cheers
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You can flash within Windows with the @BIOS utility supplied with the DS3 on CD.

I think the memory related issues are fixed in version F4 upwards, along with better stability / overclocking results etc.
 
I've been trying some overclocking.
I tried 7 x 300 and that was fine. Played CSS for an hour no problem.

I just tried 7 x 350 and the computer would not boot. The cpu fan just spun! The bios reverted to stock speed (7 x266).

I decided to try 7 x 333. The computer booted fine. But then rebooted 5 minutes later. I had time to get some screen dumps from cpuz and speedfan, though.

Any advice as to why this is happening?







 
I've tried this.

Go into the Advanced BIOS Features section and set the following to Disabled:
- Limit CPUID Max. to 3
- CPU Enhanced Halt (C1E)
- CPU Thermal Monitor 2(TM2)
- CPU EIST Function

Is this safe to do?
 
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