Official Gigabyte DS3 Owners Thread

p4radox said:
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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hi mate, thanks for the reply.

my problem is, i am not running a conroe in there. i'm running a PD 805.

also, if i take a working windows drive from another pc then it boots fine off that, minus the activation stuff.

i'm going to RMA the mobo i think
 
tomos said:
hi mate, thanks for the reply.

my problem is, i am not running a conroe in there. i'm running a PD 805.

also, if i take a working windows drive from another pc then it boots fine off that, minus the activation stuff.

i'm going to RMA the mobo i think
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Just as an off-chance, you have set the BIOS to setup defaults yes?

What about trying different CD/DVD Drive then?
 
I Dont know?

Dont see why not?

I am considering, that as 2 of the DS3's SATA ports are really IDE ports in disguise, that surely a Standard CD/DVD/RW should actually work in it... If used with a Serillel adapter anyway... And I have a few of those...

Just not ready to risk it thats all.
 
I'm thinking of buying one of these 2 boards Gigabyte GA_965P_DS3 or Gigabyte GA_965P_DS4 whats the difference between the 2 boards?
Is the DS4 just a new updated version?

Thanks
 
DS3 wont run SLi as it only has the one PCI-E, ill be getting the DS3 as well next week along with the E6400 i think, its only about £30 more than the 6300 so ill probably go for it instead of £30 is what, price of a game these days. :D

I think you have to flash the BIOS to the latest straight away. :)
 
LoadsaMoney said:
DS3 wont run SLi as it only has the one PCI-E, ill be getting the DS3 as well next week along with the E6400 i think, its only about £30 more than the 6300 so ill probably go for it instead of £30 is what, price of a game these days. :D

I think you have to flash the BIOS to the latest straight away. :)
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Thanks for the reply. The card I am planning to buy is a 7950 GX2, which is 2 GPU's on one card, as I realise the DS3 doesnt have 2 PCI-e slots ! Would this not work on the DS3 ? Rumour has it that BIOS f5 supports this ? Can anyone confirm ?

If not, which motherboard would be recommended which will do 400fsb, and utilise SLI for a single slot card ?
 
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Hi,

My stock vcore, normal stock voltage is showing as 1.225v with the e6300 on the ds3. All other posts seem to indicate that stock voltage is 1.325v. I can raise the vcore in bios but does anyone know why the vcore is reading so low? could the cpu/board be faulty? (running with latest bios f7) thanks
 
Hi guys,

Can anyone tell me how much will I be able to overclock using DS3, E6300 and my G.Skill 2GB DDR2 667MHz (PC2-5400) 4-4-4-12 running on Arctic Cooling? Could I get 2.5GHz? :)

Thanks!
 
Hi to Andarial,

the Vcore is showing as 1.225v in both the bios (under Normal Vcore temp?) and in Easytune. I can raise the voltage in the bios but wondering whether the board/cpu are faulty?
 
strid1 said:
Hi to Andarial,

the Vcore is showing as 1.225v in both the bios (under Normal Vcore temp?) and in Easytune. I can raise the voltage in the bios but wondering whether the board/cpu are faulty?
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More likely it's Intel Speedstep technology at work... google it.
 
darude said:
Hi guys,

Can anyone tell me how much will I be able to overclock using DS3, E6300 and my G.Skill 2GB DDR2 667MHz (PC2-5400) 4-4-4-12 running on Arctic Cooling? Could I get 2.5GHz? :)

Thanks!
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2.3 you'll get.

That wont be quicker than your 805D however... It will still be a long way off.

Stock conroes are very lame... Even basic-overclocked ones. Its only when you get into serious overclicking when they really show their true stuff, but at 2.3 its not going to be a real monster... Not really.
 
Richdog said:
More likely it's Intel Speedstep technology at work... google it.
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Hi, disabled these options in the bios. I know a number of people refer to the stock vcore as 1.325v and there is a default voltage on the box. Mine is an OEM chip so no sticker etc. Do different chips have varying default voltages?
 
@Strid
in the bios and using easytune my temps show as around 37 ish idle.but when i use core temp it shows as much higher at around 48
so if there is that much difference in temps i am wondering if the reported volts could be different too?
my 6600 is showing as 1.34 @ stock in easy tunes at this moment
 
hi, yeah think there's a lot of variation in temps/voltages between different apps. It just seems unusual that cpu vid id(fixed value?) and normal cpu vcore show as 1.225v when all other posts seem to refer to the default voltage for the 6300 as 1.325v? The 1.225v shows both in bios and easytune. Any other suggestions :(
 
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