Official Gigabyte DS3 Owners Thread

God damn my rig is sweet now... :D

Just fitted 2x SATA DVD drives and now im almost legacy free besides one IDE HD which I use for backup.

All i'm missing now is a good cooler, i'm thinking Thermalright Si-128 as reviews seem great, I had the Si-120 so know how well it performs with low rpm fans, and it cools a lot of the mobo. 3.6ghz here I come. :)
 
Richdog said:
God damn my rig is sweet now... :D

Just fitted 2x SATA DVD drives and now im almost legacy free besides one IDE HD which I use for backup.

All i'm missing now is a good cooler, i'm thinking Thermalright Si-128 as reviews seem great, I had the Si-120 so know how well it performs with low rpm fans, and it cools a lot of the mobo. 3.6ghz here I come. :)
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whta sata dvd drives did you get?
 
Hey guys, got my DS3 on the way tomorrow. Just wondering how many 3 pin fan connectors it has on the board? I can only seem to spot one for the CPU. Might have to invest in a fan controller
 
thought i'd post this here for people in the know about this mobo.

i am starting to think that my mobo is borked.

its doing weird things. i'm trying to install windows on it but even tho the drives i've used have fat 32 or ntfs partitions on it, the installation of XP doesnt recognise it as valid for windows. the same is true even after deleting the partition and creating a new one. windows sees it, lets me pick it to install but then says its not valid

this is for a partition that had XP on it on a diff PC. tried on pata and sata drives that are fine in other pcs and have had windows on them at various points. tried diff sata/ide cables and still the same

tried the same cd i always used to install XP and even downloaded one in case mine went weird - still the same.

also, it wont let me update the bios either. tried through the bios - it finds the file on my floppy drive but says its the wrong size. when i try through a boot cd going to dos it just opens the program, goes through the motions and nothing happens.

the bios is still F5 when all is done.

i've tried this with the bios on a floppy and a cd. both checked and read fine, no errors on either. for some reason the mobo just wont update it.

any chance my mobo is borked?

i'm going to try and force an image of another pc onto it via acronis true image and see what happens..
 
What about this bundle here 2nd one down, the E6400, DS3 and the 2Gb Corsair, is that Ram any good.

Thanks. :)

Just seen the Freezer 7 pro for the Conroe's, i think ill get that instead of the Ninja as its only about £17, and the Ninjas £35, and i know how good the freezers are as ive got the 64 pro at the minute on my 3500+, and the 7 pro for the Conroes will just be the same one, but with the fitting on it for the Intel boards instead. :)
 
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i decided in the end to put a copy of windows that is already installed on a different pc with acronis true image onto a spare drive and see if it worked.

this let me into windows and i tried to flash the bios there again - same thing again. it simply doesnt update it.

i have reset the bios settings to optimized defaults as well as fail safe defaults and cant see a reason why it would fail.

all the drives i use are fine on other PCs, my memory passes memtest fine so its not a ram fault, the power supply is a 580w tagan so more than enough for a barebones setup and the processor is also ok as it was tested in my other intel setup (intel motherboard - d975xbx) and all is fine.

the only thing i can think of is the motherboard is faulty in some bizarre way
 
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roakes said:
Hey guys, got my DS3 on the way tomorrow. Just wondering how many 3 pin fan connectors it has on the board? I can only seem to spot one for the CPU. Might have to invest in a fan controller
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NONE!

They are 4-pin fan connectors.

One at the top ( CPU ) and one on the far left about half way down ( Case )

Unless I missed out there, but mine has just the 2 connectors and they are both 4-pin.
 
LoadsaMoney said:
Just seen the Freezer 7 pro for the Conroe's, i think ill get that instead of the Ninja as its only about £17, and the Ninjas £35, and i know how good the freezers are as ive got the 64 pro at the minute on my 3500+, and the 7 pro for the Conroes will just be the same one, but with the fitting on it for the Intel boards instead. :)
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Its similar in that the fan is plonked on the side, but the AMD6 one is square while the Intel one is wider and flatter..And of course the connections are different.

Acatually, if you ask me , the intel one also seem a little bit more fragile actually, perhaps the fins are a little thinner maybe? ( Not compared them next to each other like, but I can do if you want? )

In terms of performance, its a billion times bettert han the stock junk I was using... Previously I was going up to 45 in a few minutes of idling and then edging up towards about 55 after abotu 15 minutes of sitting there doing nowt ( Poor case though ) and now I dont go over 40 even after a sesh on UT2K4, so the figures speak for themselves.
 
Is anyone using a DS3 with 4 X 512Mb sticks of memory? Just wondering how it performs if you are? Just waiting for PSU before building mine up.
 
FatRakoon said:
Its similar in that the fan is plonked on the side, but the AMD6 one is square while the Intel one is wider and flatter..And of course the connections are different.

Acatually, if you ask me , the intel one also seem a little bit more fragile actually, perhaps the fins are a little thinner maybe? ( Not compared them next to each other like, but I can do if you want? )

In terms of performance, its a billion times bettert han the stock junk I was using... Previously I was going up to 45 in a few minutes of idling and then edging up towards about 55 after abotu 15 minutes of sitting there doing nowt ( Poor case though ) and now I dont go over 40 even after a sesh on UT2K4, so the figures speak for themselves.
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Thanks for that, must admit id rather stay with the Freezer, as as i said i know how well it performs as ive got the 64 version, and what a cracking cooler that is. :)
 
LoadsaMoney said:
Thanks for that, must admit id rather stay with the Freezer, as as i said i know how well it performs as ive got the 64 version, and what a cracking cooler that is. :)
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Yeah, its the Freezer64's performance that made me go for it on the Intel too!

Admittedly, the intel one feels a lot more flimsy, the way it holds onto the board does not feel the best ( Kept flicking off when I was tryign to attach it ) however, the performance of it speaks for itself... Especially given its price.
 
tomos said:
i decided in the end to put a copy of windows that is already installed on a different pc with acronis true image onto a spare drive and see if it worked.

this let me into windows and i tried to flash the bios there again - same thing again. it simply doesnt update it.

i have reset the bios settings to optimized defaults as well as fail safe defaults and cant see a reason why it would fail.

all the drives i use are fine on other PCs, my memory passes memtest fine so its not a ram fault, the power supply is a 580w tagan so more than enough for a barebones setup and the processor is also ok as it was tested in my other intel setup (intel motherboard - d975xbx) and all is fine.

the only thing i can think of is the motherboard is faulty in some bizarre way
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I was trying to fix a mates new DS3 system. It was stable in BIOS, but when XP was installing, it would enter an endless reboot cycle half way through installation.

I replaced ram, gpu, psu, hdd and XP disk, and nothing would make it work. The motherboard is now on it's 2nd RMA - the first time it was "fully working", but I learned it had only been tested with a Celeron and a P4. I think there are some DS3s that won't work with Conroe.
 
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