Official Gigabyte DS3 Owners Thread

Ok I have a e6300 overclocked at 2.3ghz atm, on a DS4, with GeiL pc5300 2gig ram and a freezer 7 pro. Here are the temp readings.

CoreTemp: Stock (50idle,60load) Overclocked (60idle, 65Load)
SpeedFan: Stock (39Idle,45Load) Overclocked (45average)
Mobo: Overclocked 45

As you can see with coretemp my cpu is reading quite high (60-65) but with the bios temp and speed fan it is only reading 45, I have been told coretemp is the more accurate. So what is a safe temperature to go up to? Also whats a better cooler than the artic cooling freezer pro 7, because if the temp is infact 60-65 then im not impressed with this cooler and would consider upgrading it before overclocking to say 2.6-2.8ghz.

I have also read that you should up the ram voltage from 1.8to 2.1 straight away, and change the timings to 5-5-5-15. However on the ram sticks it says volts 1.8, so will it not be damaging the Ram by uppin the volts past what it is supposed to handle?

Cheers.

Ben.
 
1.8 is the stock volts. I won't guarantee safety but 2.1 shouldn't kill it.

What volts do you have the CPU on? They are very high temps for that speed. Is your cooler fitted correctly with good thermal paste?

70 is the limit for most CPUs at which stage they shut down before damaging themselves (hopefully).
 
Ok the cpu is on stock volts and i have rechecked over the heatsink and everything is attached correctly. When it was all stock the temps were 50idle and 60 loaded. The only things i have changed is the fsb to 333 and the ram multiplier to 2 and this has resulted in a slight temp increase. Do i need more thermal paste inbetween the cpu chip and the bottom of the heatsink than what comes as standard with the freezer 7 pro? or do i just need a better cooler? or maybe better case cooling (Another fan or somthing?)
 
Yeah have atleast one fan sucking in air from the front and another blowing out the back.

The pre-applied paste should have been enough. It's MX-1 and is pretty much the same as AS5. But it wouldn't hurt to reapply some AS5.

And check that the cpu's IHS is flat. Some ppl are getting ones that are nowhere near flat and are making very bad contact with the heatsink.
 
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I used the vertical line method last time and it didn't make any difference to the temps. But it did save me from having to dirty my credit card.
 
so i should remove the cpu clean it and make sure its flat? then if it is reaply some of this thermal paste in a line on the middle and seee what happens. Suppose it isnt flat, then what? send it back?
 
BenJ said:
so i should remove the cpu clean it and make sure its flat? then if it is reaply some of this thermal paste in a line on the middle and seee what happens. Suppose it isnt flat, then what? send it back?
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if it is not flat you can lap the die(however you will invalidate your warrenty)
i don`t think you can send it back just cos it has a curved die mate
 
BenJ said:
ok thats a bit poor, so what exactly does lap the die mean?
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use wet and dry sand/glass paper to make it flat
not reccomended for noobies tbh dude, as if you screw up you lose everything.
best off returning as defective if it is.
 
LoadsaMoney said:
I was thinking of getting this board along with the E6600, but its only got 1x IDE connector, fat lot of use that is when you've got 2x IDE HD's, and 2x DVD drives connected by IDE. :(
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get the 6300 instead you will get a better clock with the 6300 and save yourself some money too.
 
ilh said:
Finally tried my NR with the F7, and it doesn't work at all now at any voltage.
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ilh

I think you have referred to my previous posts and the G-Skill NR memory. I did get my system running fairly stable using a single 1GB dimm and 2.2v but it still fell over when running memory-intensive programs (games). I would have posted this sooner but have been away and have been trying to resolve it with G-Skill.

Anyway, the upshot is that I have now RMA'd the memory. I do not think there is anything much wrong with the memory but it won't work with the DS3 despite a G-Skill tech. advising on the internet that it does. Also, the memory is rated at 1.9-2.0v but won't boot with less than 2.2v into it. That was enough of a reason for me to RMA it.

I have explained everything to them and only hope that they won't just send it back saying "no fault found". I'd rather they swap it for some HZ or something. I'll let you know what happens.
 
The only thing thats stopped me getting SATA drives was the though of having to fanny about putting the raid drivers on a floppy for em, where as IDE you just plug em in and they are there straight away to use, but my mate says you can just bung SATA drives in like that and set them as emulated PATA, and they will just appear like IDE ones, and be useable straight away with out having to fan on with raid drivers on floppies, will just be like plugging an IDE hard drive in, so if this board has that feature then ill just get a SATA drive and do it that way, then just use the 1x IDE connector for my 2x DVD drives. :)
 
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