Official Gigabyte DS3 Owners Thread

ANDARIAL said:
if you can stretch your budget a bit further this
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-058-GL
is what me and quite a few others are using
i can say that this is compatible whereas i can`t comment about the other :)
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Already ordered yesterday but apparently it's in Warehouse queue stage. I've sent 'em a webnote to see if I can change it as I'm not sure when OcUK are open over the festive period, hopefully should catch em in time :)

Cheers for the advice!
 
wouldnt bother with a gig at that price, you be better going for the OCuk Value 2gb kit - it'll allow a overclock to 3Ghz no sweat. Also, you might wanna edit out the link, they're a competitor in this case.
 
FINALLY got some where!
I wasn't able to overclock me e6300 above 425mhz, it'd bomb out almost straight away while loading windows, never made it to me desktop.
I rechecked me settings in the bios and noticed that "usb legacy support" was still enabled. I was sure I diabled this, but anyways, I turned it off, cranked the vcore to 1.425v, ram timings to 5-5-5-15 at 2.1 vdimm and voila, I've been benching orthos at 450mhz for the past 1 hour 14 mins, and playing music at the same time! :D
I'm gonna try at stock vcore for another hour or two, then try to tighten me timigs to 4-4-4-12 and see how that goes.
never thought this combo would overclock this high. Just goes to show to recheck settings. :rolleyes:
 
pieman109 said:
FINALLY got some where!
I wasn't able to overclock me e6300 above 425mhz, it'd bomb out almost straight away while loading windows, never made it to me desktop.
I rechecked me settings in the bios and noticed that "usb legacy support" was still enabled. I was sure I diabled this, but anyways, I turned it off, cranked the vcore to 1.425v, ram timings to 5-5-5-15 at 2.1 vdimm and voila, I've been benching orthos at 450mhz for the past 1 hour 14 mins, and playing music at the same time! :D
I'm gonna try at stock vcore for another hour or two, then try to tighten me timigs to 4-4-4-12 and see how that goes.
never thought this combo would overclock this high. Just goes to show to recheck settings. :rolleyes:
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I am having the same problems and have a feeling I left this on after the last BIOS update or two... will check tonight. Glad yours is sorted though :D
 
Well, it gets better! I'm currently running orthos 3255mhz (465 x 7) all voltages at stock except for the memory at 2.1 Vdimm. I find it believe it was this "usb legacy support" that was holding back the overclock. It hasn't bombed out yet, so I'll give it a while running orthos and post back later. I'll also run superpi and see what I get.
I ran superpi yesterday at 3.155ghz and 18s for a 1meg test if that indicates anything.
Cpu temps are 45c-47c atm running orthos, so I reckon they're ok, but thats using the gigabyte "easytune" thingy so how accurate that is I don't know.

Edit: Orthos bombed after about 8mins, so I set the vcore 1.35v (increase of 0.025v) and its running fine atm. Makes me wonder just how far this e6300 will go!
Also just ran superpi and 1meg gives me 17secs (previous score was 18secs).
 
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if easytunes say 45oC i would be a bit worried.try using coretemp and tell us what that says
when easytunes says 23oC on mine core temp says 40oC
so........ :)
 
ANDARIAL said:
if easytunes say 45oC i would be a bit worried.try using coretemp and tell us what that says
when easytunes says 23oC on mine core temp says 40oC
so........ :)
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Food for thought that. I downloaded and tried "coretemp" and while running orthos the highest temp reading on both cpu cores is 63c. easytune reads 47c:rolleyes:
 
ANDARIAL said:
if you can stretch your budget a bit further this
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-058-GL
is what me and quite a few others are using
i can say that this is compatible whereas i can`t comment about the other :)
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Got this sorted so thanks for the advice :) People seem to be saying it's a bit different in requirements for overclocking but nothing a good read over previous threads won't fix. Hoping to get the rig up to 2.8 or 3GHz so fingers crossed.
 
I'm running with the F4 bios (DS3) - any real reason to update?

Also, if I do, any horror stories using the Windows bios updater program since I don't have a floppy on this machine?
 
@BIOS is easy to use. But there is small risk of your computer not booting again.

To decrease this risk...
A> End Anti Virus software when you update
B> When the update is running don't do anything
C> If you get frequent power cuts don't update it
 
ok its working now (left 1 thing enabled in the bios that needs to be turned off oops). I can get super pi to pass 1m everytime. at the moment im just runnning 400x6=2400mhz with ram at 800mhz. im trying to get stable at 400fsb before i start increasing the cpu multi as im after 3.2 or 3.6ghz if i can. Now, in 3d mark 2003 the program quits with a file corrupted error message the file in question is different each time i run 3d mark. 3d mark just clsoes the test and shows this box, i never get bsod or reset. i have tried increasing all the different voltages but no luck.

I have just passed 3d mark 2003 at 380fsb :) , then 390fsb but upon post straight after benchmark the cmos needed to be reset i had a cold boot. i am seeing how high i can go until i reach a max then il prime etc then start upping the multi. Is there an fsb wall of about 390-400 for the 4mb (conroe) chips?? :confused:
any help much appreciated!
 
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