Official Gigabyte DS3 Owners Thread

Servo · 7 Aug 2006 at 20:25

It was this one mate, and there ain't much in it, using the water cooling and this.

Zalman CNPS9500-LED Aero Flower (Socket 939/754/478/775) CPU Cooler (HS-015-ZA)

Psypher5 · 7 Aug 2006 at 20:28

Thanks again for the info

gam3r · 7 Aug 2006 at 20:31

Servo said:
Using geil value 2 x1 gig 5300, and it does the above on Air, just moved over to water today.

I'm thinking of getting that ram seeing as my geil isnt compatible with my motherboard. Would you recommend it?

clone · 7 Aug 2006 at 20:38

Why is my x6800 @ 11 x is it not ment to go to 13x?
Motherboard DS_3 :confused:

janesssssy · 8 Aug 2006 at 21:11

A message to all those clearing the bios with taking the battery out :rolleyes:

There are two small pins above the battery, pinch a jumper from somewhere (not the motherboard) and short the two pins.

Jobs a good'un.

Duke let us know how your OC is going

sgoaty · 8 Aug 2006 at 21:13

janesssssy said:
A message to all those clearing the bios with taking the battery out

There are two small pins above the battery, pinch a jumper from somewhere (not the motherboard) and short the two pins.

Jobs a good'un.

Duke let us know how your OC is going

Or poke the two pins in the middle with a screwdriver

easyrider · 8 Aug 2006 at 21:13

What ram do I get for the DS3.I am looking to build a second rig as a server but unsure on the ram for this mobo.

There seems to be some compatibilty issues with this mobo.

I know that are a lot of DS3 owners so tell me what ram you are using.

Thanks Easy

janesssssy · 8 Aug 2006 at 21:16

sgoaty said:
Or poke the two pins in the middle with a screwdriver

stupid me, yeah or that

sgoaty · 8 Aug 2006 at 21:40

easyrider said:
What ram do I get for the DS3.I am looking to build a second rig as a server but unsure on the ram for this mobo.

There seems to be some compatibilty issues with this mobo.

I know that are a lot of DS3 owners so tell me what ram you are using.

Thanks Easy

Im using the HZ but i know of people using the LA with no issues (and good clocks) iy yends to be ram with a cas of 5 that causes problems

fenderbass86 · 8 Aug 2006 at 21:57

Im using the Corsair XMS2 6400C5.

wellibob · 8 Aug 2006 at 22:04

Fender chap, what clocks you getting with the cas 5 corsair, thanks.

fenderbass86 · 8 Aug 2006 at 22:41

I don't know yet, i'm still trying to set up my stupid ntl broadband. Once i've got everything sorted the next thing to do is benchmark, overclock, benchmark.

Duke · 9 Aug 2006 at 07:49

janesssssy said:
Duke let us know how your OC is going

Hi mate. Would have given it another try but was asleep by 8.30pm.. wasn't feeling too good.

easyrider said:
What ram do I get for the DS3.I am looking to build a second rig as a server but unsure on the ram for this mobo.

There seems to be some compatibilty issues with this mobo.

I know that are a lot of DS3 owners so tell me what ram you are using.

I'm using G.Skill 2GB DDR2 HZ PC2-6400 (2x1GB) CAS4 Dual Channel Kit (F2-6400PHU2-2GBHZ) (MY-013-GS) although the price seems to flutuate. I paid about £15 less than that.
It seems to work pretty well. The only odd thing is that at stock it runs in a divider, but I expect that to be fixed by Gigabyte sometime.

gam3r · 9 Aug 2006 at 10:18

Looks like my RMA went through today

Now i shall order my DS3 again hopefully and it should be ok..

Ugiol · 9 Aug 2006 at 10:52

Is the fact that I still have my ram at 1.8v and at cas3 the reason i would fail prime straight away with everything on stock? Im running the g.skill 6400 hz ram in conjunction with the e6600. Apart from that my system seems stable performing well in all benchmarks I have tried thus far. However the failure in prime is rather annoying.

Socaddict · 9 Aug 2006 at 11:59

got my order dispatched. will have my DS3 tomorrow. hmmm, should I take friday off work...

clone · 9 Aug 2006 at 16:02

Ugiol said:
Is the fact that I still have my ram at 1.8v and at cas3 the reason i would fail prime straight away with everything on stock? Im running the g.skill 6400 hz ram in conjunction with the e6600. Apart from that my system seems stable performing well in all benchmarks I have tried thus far. However the failure in prime is rather annoying.

Same problem with me with the ram not running at the right setting,was reading the other day that this boards reads the ram voltage wrong as well,needs a new bios update soon.

Jobe · 9 Aug 2006 at 17:26

6600 running at 1600

ok guys
cpuz is reporting my chip running at 1600mhz. in the bios splash screen it says it's running at 9 * 66 ??
When i go into the other bios page (forget it's name) it says i'm running at-:
multi 9
cpu host clock control [disabled]
cpu host frequency (fsb i guess) 66

is this right or is it the thing where it scales how much processing power it needs.

Also tried [enabling] cpu clock control and setting fsb to 266 but it still booted at 1600.

Any advice appreciated

Regards
Jobe

Socaddict · 9 Aug 2006 at 17:30

you've got speend step enable. it lowers the multi when the cpu is not loaded.

LordShadow · 9 Aug 2006 at 17:31

hey,

The only reason it runs 1600 is Intels speedstep technology. This makes the CPU run at a 6 multi when the load is low. Try putting the system under load and then looking at CPU-Z. should be 2400Mhz.

EDIT - Beat me too it.