Official Gigabyte DS3 Owners Thread
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You'll need to set the ram to a 3x multi in the BIOS MIT page adn whilst you'r in the bios hit ctrl-f1 on the main page to unlock the advanced options and set you ram manually to either 4,4,4,12 or 5,5,5,15 depending on your ram specs.
cpuz has been known to report things incorrectly on the new platforms.
The best way to set it up correctly is to set it up correctly
are you overclocking? What components have you got?
cpuz has been known to report things incorrectly on the new platforms.
The best way to set it up correctly is to set it up correctly
are you overclocking? What components have you got?
ben_ said:Hey guys.
Just built the new computer and was having a poke around.
My ram is the GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC6400 800MHz, but CPU-Z shows 400?
Am i being stupid or is somethig wrong?
Cheers.
Sorry, I'm being a blithering idiot.
You rams running at 400x2, hence ddr2-800
You just need to change those timings to 4,4,4,12 to be properly optimised at stock speeds. It't won't make much difference but hey it's free, guarunteed speed
tonyyeb said:Ben, your not overclocking at the moment so set you RAM timings to 4-4-4-12 in the bios, i have a 6300 and my ram multi is 2.0, and you should be set.
Then.....
START OVERCLOCKING!!! Its a sin to leave that 6600 at stock!
Alrighty. You've tempted me.
It's true, but overclocking does opena whole new can of worms. TBH OC'ing these boards is pretty easy.tonyyeb said:Ben, your not overclocking at the moment so set you RAM timings to 4-4-4-12 in the bios, i have a 6300 and my ram multi is 2.0, and you should be set.
Then.....
START OVERCLOCKING!!! Its a sin to leave that 6600 at stock!
As tony says just set your ram multi to 2 and I personally would leave your timings at 5,5,5,15 for the time being.
Make sure you know where the CMOS reset jumper is (near the cmos battery on mobo) and have a flat blade screwdriver handy just incase. You shouldn't need it.
The set you fsb to 300, test with Orthos (google it) for 20-30 mins. Then try 320, 340, 360. Testing with Orthos each time. After that I'd make the incriments smaller, like only 5-10MHz. This will still bump the core speed by 45-90MHz each time.
You might want to up the core voltage to 1.4v to start with but I prefer to wait until I get errors in Orthos as it lets me know when the cpu is starting to struggle.
Hope this helps
Nutbusta said:
The DS3 has a fail safe where if you try to push too much it will reboot, each time reducing the overclock until its happy. It may then boot but still not be stable. But its true, you may still need the cmos reset! Used it once already!
The best advice is to read the first post in this thread, print it off and away you go!
tonyyeb said:The DS3 has a fail safe where if you try to push too much it will reboot, each time reducing the overclock until its happy. It may then boot but still not be stable. But its true, you may still need the cmos reset! Used it once already!
The best advice is to read the first post in this thread, print it off and away you go!
This is absolutly true. I would especially agree with printing off the first post in this thread. It's wouldn't hurt to try and read the first few pages just to familiarise yourself with some of the issues people have been having.
Don't let the horror stories put you off though. Most of the issues have been corrected with the newer bios's.
I would update if you using f5 or earlier, before you start oc'ing. This can be done easily in windows with bg's @BIOS utility
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Hey guys - the new f8 bios is out here
Just says updates cpu id - why do they never do proper release notes with these things????
Just says updates cpu id - why do they never do proper release notes with these things????
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hope a new ds4 bios comes out soon that pushes fsb more, been 2 months since a new bios!