Official Gigabyte DS3 Owners Thread

Cob said:
Yeah one stick will be fine.

But some pc6400 would get your e6300 over 3Ghz and it would blow your P4 out of the water.
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So, at 3.0Ghz ( Lets say I settle there cos its a rounded off figure ) that would be an equivalent P4 speed of..... ( Fill in the blank )

I mean... At 4.3Ghz ( 240x18 ) , this seems to a sweet spot for my P4. I got 30Sec 1MB SuperPI there, and at 4.4 ( 245 ) it would not get any better than 32??? - Best I have acheived at the moment on this PC, has been 29, so as you can see... Im not really seeing all that much benefit from clocking it any higher than a stock 4.3 unless I really go for it. Its currently at 262x18 and running nicely with no issues other than heat and Im only hitting 29, but only one second on a full 400MHZ overclock says there is somethign missing there?

I am wondering if the RAM could be the problem, but also with better RAM, and the Conroe being the CPU, would I also suffer that as well?
 
FatRakoon said:
I mean... At 4.3Ghz ( 240x18 ) , this seems to a sweet spot for my P4. I got 30Sec 1MB SuperPI
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If you go by SuperPI, my old Opteron 146 @ 3.0GHz did it in 29 sec and the Conroe 6600 I have now @ stock does it in 20 sec :)..
 
FatRakoon said:
So, at 3.0Ghz ( Lets say I settle there cos its a rounded off figure ) that would be an equivalent P4 speed of..... ( Fill in the blank )

I mean... At 4.3Ghz ( 240x18 ) , this seems to a sweet spot for my P4. I got 30Sec 1MB SuperPI there, and at 4.4 ( 245 ) it would not get any better than 32??? - Best I have acheived at the moment on this PC, has been 29, so as you can see... Im not really seeing all that much benefit from clocking it any higher than a stock 4.3 unless I really go for it. Its currently at 262x18 and running nicely with no issues other than heat and Im only hitting 29, but only one second on a full 400MHZ overclock says there is somethign missing there?

I am wondering if the RAM could be the problem, but also with better RAM, and the Conroe being the CPU, would I also suffer that as well?
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You P4 is probably "Thermal Throttling" which is an Intel feature - when a chip hit 70 degrees it designed to start up all those power saving features. Killing heat but also performance.

Google and download Throttlewatch and then run prime95 at the same time to check this.

My Allendale (in spec) does 1m SuperPI in 18 seconds so it's probably a fair bit quicker than your P4.

BTW, the Geil ram I bought is now on this weeks specials and very reasonable.
 
Nutbusta said:
You P4 is probably "Thermal Throttling" which is an Intel feature - when a chip hit 70 degrees it designed to start up all those power saving features. Killing heat but also performance.
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Of course it is.
I had thought of it, but was putting it down to ram first because its only rated to 400... DDR2 @ 400 ? I never knew it existed, I only bought it cos I thought it was cheap DDR, however, its going to 533 anyway, ( Well, 265 FSB actually. ) so its doing its job I s'pose?


Nutbusta said:
My Allendale (in spec) does 1m SuperPI in 18 seconds so it's probably a fair bit quicker than your P4.
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Hmm. Almost as quick as my ZX80

Seriously, so a Conroe at 3.2 is roughly about 50% quicker than a [email protected]

( Roughly )

Nutbusta said:
BTW, the Geil ram I bought is now on this weeks specials and very reasonable.
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I was looking at that... Wondering if I should just grab it right away or not?

The thing is, that I have seen so many things on T.W.O in OCUK in the past, and I have jumped at it, only to find that very same thing on normal sale a week later at even less!!!
 
FatRakoon said:
Of course it is.
I had thought of it, but was putting it down to ram first because its only rated to 400... DDR2 @ 400 ? I never knew it existed, I only bought it cos I thought it was cheap DDR, however, its going to 533 anyway, ( Well, 265 FSB actually. ) so its doing its job I s'pose?

Hmm. Almost as quick as my ZX80

Seriously, so a Conroe at 3.2 is roughly about 50% quicker than a [email protected]

( Roughly )
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You really want to make sure it's not throttling. I'd deffo reckomend that you try throttlewatch!

Wow, ZX80? Passively cooled powerhouse :D

Well looks lie 50% faster in SuperPI but remeber it has 2 cores too so you kinda could draw the concludion that its 3 times as fast.

Ran PCMark05 this morning:
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Hows that compare?
 
Yeah, I downloaded throttlewatch a short while ago... Will try it out when Im on the P4 later. Thanks for the headsup on that.

Passively cooled ZX80?
Nah mate, I have had to install Water cooling cos I got that to 1.1Mhz @ 9.5v hehe

Conroe=Dual core = x3 faster

Yeah, also, I got to admit, that this HT of the P4s is one of the biggest piles of crud I have ever seen really... It says its dual core when its quite honestly not.

Have you tried to SuperPI when you are folding on one of these?

You can halve your SuperPI values for a start.

Last night, I decided to fold on this PC, I did the usuals, and there it was taking up 50% ( as it should on a dualcore & HT CPU ) and I ram SuperPI for a laugh ( I knew what would happen ) and I got over a minute

Killed off Folding and re-ran it and got 30 seconds again!!!

I have killed off HT anyway... I know I lose out on some apps, but to be honest, with HT disabled, Folding is much better for it, as is SuperPI results too! - with HT off, I get a 31Seconds superPI when also folding.

Those of you who have a HT CPU, give that a try.
 
FatRakoon said:
I have killed off HT anyway... I know I lose out on some apps, but to be honest, with HT disabled, Folding is much better for it, as is SuperPI results too! - with HT off, I get a 31Seconds superPI when also folding.

Those of you who have a HT CPU, give that a try.
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Now that really does suprise me. I would have thought that perticulare circumstance HT would deffo help performance.
 
Nutbusta said:
Now that really does suprise me. I would have thought that perticulare circumstance HT would deffo help performance.
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Well, yes, but read my own quote you quoted me on!

I said that I know I lose out on some apps, and I do.

But HT really isnt all its cracked up to be...

If you run 2 apps that are nto really doing all that much, then you get a great little boost.

If you run 2 apps that are doing a fair bit, then it seems that instead, they are both being crippled... Kind of like its only giving the CPU half its MHZ to each app.

I know this sounds fine, but Folding takes up only unused CPU time, but with HT it also seems to think that there is still that other core's 50% and so it still takes up the 50%... Sort of disabling the true power of the CPU.

Its hard to describe, but if anyone here has a HT CPU, please give it a go and you will see what I mean?

I will have another look in a short while, and I will force both FOLDING and SUPERPI to use the same core, and on seperate cores, and with HT disabled, and I will run the PC at stock and see what happens? )
 
Set my CPU fan to QST with PWM on an Arctic Pro 70 and under load on my 805D I'm getting about 53c It's around 45c with no load

With all the fans set at max it barely breaks 30c

This is with the 805D clocked to 3.3GHz so 166 x 20
 
I set my rig up and everything was fine for the last week, until last night. It BSOD so I checked everything was seated correctly. Now all I get is a fast beeping sound coming from the motherboard. The PSU also starts, stops and starts etc.

I have checked all my connection, I'm suspecting a RAM issue, any idea's!!!
 
-|ScottFree|- said:
I set my rig up and everything was fine for the last week, until last night. It BSOD so I checked everything was seated correctly. Now all I get is a fast beeping sound coming from the motherboard. The PSU also starts, stops and starts etc.

I have checked all my connection, I'm suspecting a RAM issue, any idea's!!!
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Still at overclocked speed? or you can't get into BIOS at all?
 
On closer inspection I have found what seems to be a metallic looking object in one of the RAM slots that I haven't used. I have been using the yellow slots for my Ram. The orange slots also look like they have been tampered with, I can see gold flecks when I look at the slots from the side, its almost like something has popped out from the side.. :confused:

I am in the process of RMA'ing the board, I will have to buy another when I order the 8800 tomorrow night!!! just hope I can get a replacement to sell on and get some money back!!
 
Hi, I am new to the world of overclocking. I am quite new to this forum and you guys have been a great help for me in overclocking my new pc.

I have the e6300 running at 2.8GHz, Zalman CNPS9500 cooler, Gigabyte DS3 mobo and OCZ DDR2 2x1GB PC2-6400 Gold GX XTC Dual Channel Kit
(part number: OCZ2G8002GK) with 5-5-5-12 timings.

Does anyone have any experience with the ram kit I have? (I noticed most poeple here use g.skill or corsair) At the BIOS I am running at 400FSB 7x multiplier and my ram frequency is at 800MHz. Is this safe or can I go further? I also want to go 3GHz or more, how should I adjust my voltage?

And lastly, I installed speedfan to check temps and fanspeed but its giving me none-sense reading of my fan speed. (fan1: 6250rpm fan2:19286rpm) Does anybody know how to fix this?

Any help/tips would be greatly appreciated!
 
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What the standard MCH and FSB voltages for this board?? like the ddr voltage defaults at 1.8v but what about the others.
Also whats max +xx voltage to use for these settings?? +3 or +4 ok for the mch or is that too much??
 
Just thought I'd add this if anyone with gskill HZ is wondering why they can't achieve stability past 450 fsb -

Anandtech said:
The other memory issue that still exists today is that most Micron D9 based memory modules will not allow the board to exceed a 450 FSB range when operating at a 1:1 memory ratio. This issue does not occur on the Gigabyte GA-965P-DS4 or GA-965P-DQ6 motherboards so we consider it to be a BIOS issue. We have spoken at length with Gigabyte about this problem and it is currently being addressed by their engineering group.
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newbe ask for help

Hi Guys. Cheers from Poland :)

I'm a new here, and a new proud owner of DS3 and C2D6600.
my rig also have - 2x1GB Geill pc6400 ultra, asusu x1950pro, tagan TG530-u15, Scythe Ninja+ rev.B

I've set bios like this:
CPU FREQ - 390
Ratio - 9
PCI FREQ 100
Memory 4 4 4 12 with 2x multipler
DIMM volt +0.3
FSB OverVolt +0.1
MCH +0.1
CPU Volt 1.45

With this setting system starts fine without any problems, but orthos shows error after 11m. What can be wrong ? Is that means that my cpu can go that high ?
What else?
As i wrote below i've set cpuvol at 1.45 but cpu-z shows 1,42 n idle but in stress 1,39. What this can be ? (speedfun shows the same)
Next thing is a temperature. In idle is 36-38*C and i think it is quite good but I can be wrong. In stress temp going up to 59-60 and here i think it is high with this hsf :/ maybe ninja is wrong mounted ? or this temp is normal ?

Please help me to set this

Sorry for mistakes - my english is not quite good

Regards
 
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It will be your memory - it will need either more voltage (e.g. +5) or relax the timings (e.g. try 5-5-5-15) to run at that speed.
 
There should be no need to touch your RAM at that speed. It's running under stock speed.

Raise your PCI FREQ to 105 and see if that helps. Give your VCore a nudge after that if it's still failing Orthos.
 
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