Official Gigabyte DS3 Owners Thread

Robert said:
I can't overclock with the F9 bios. I turn all of the intel gunk off and set my voltages, then ram to 400mhz. It just won't stick. If I get into windows and reboot it does a reboot cycle 4 times then comes on - or it does a turn on - off cycle 5 times and comes on without overclock.

I WAS running at 2.8ghz (400*7). The thing is the bios fixes my Xfi issue and I don't know if I should risk changing to F8/F10 and having more problems OR it totally screwing my system.
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Ive just put F10 in, did a medium/average overclock (400x7), worked first time

So far so good
 
Testing with this new 6600.. I get the same sort of results overclocking wise.. hit about 3.4-3.5 and it's unstable. Tried upto 1.5v which should be plenty :( Could be the DS3 I guess
 
Could I ask you guys...

Whe nyou say your PC is unstable...

How exactly? I mean, what part is unstable?

The thing is, that mine, is rock solid apart from playing a few games.

The thing is, that these games are now running fine, but its still clocked up a fair bit.

For example, HL2:E1 kept crapping out after a minute of playing. It would hang the system and I could not get out without a power-off... Reset just kept it in hung mode.

NeedForSped Underground 2 would crash in the install, or at least the EREG.EXE would the game itsself would install fine and again, a few minutes into playing, it would crash to the desktop...

Bow, both those games are runnig well... NFSU2 still has the od issue, but enough to let me play a while.

Im currently running the DS3 with the F7 BIOS, E6300 @ 480FSB, 4x512MB Geil 6400.

Apart from NFS games and HL2 : E1 ( HL2 is fine ) the systems is rock solid.

I was wonderign if the games are pointing to somenthign not quite there in the stability side of mine too??
 
Duke said:
Testing with this new 6600.. I get the same sort of results overclocking wise.. hit about 3.4-3.5 and it's unstable. Tried upto 1.5v which should be plenty :( Could be the DS3 I guess
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i've read somewhere that the 4mb cache c2d's (like the e6600) clocks better with the intel 975 chipsets which the ds3 is not (its a 965).
 
FatRakoon said:
Could I ask you guys...

Whe nyou say your PC is unstable...

How exactly? I mean, what part is unstable?
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The most extreme definition of stable is - "will it run Orthos Blend for 24 hours straight with no errors". No-one will ever argue that's not stable. And vice versa it could be argued that if it won't run Orthos Blend for 24 hours straight with no errors that it's not stable :rolleyes:
 
serenity888 said:
i've read somewhere that the 4mb cache c2d's (like the e6600) clocks better with the intel 975 chipsets which the ds3 is not (its a 965).
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I don't see why that would be though? Got any more info at all?
 
Nutbusta said:
Was that 1 instance of Prime on each core?

If so then, yeah, it's deffo stable :)
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No, one core, as I was needing the other core for encoding etc, so both cores were 100% for most of the time, but prime was one core only.
 
How come my e6300 temps are higher at 2.7 than 2.8/2.9 ??

Also should i plug the intake or the outtake fan into the system fan port
 
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dheyworth1981 said:
Sorry to derail this part of the convo

After putting F10 in and getting my Overclock back from the reset of doom.... I've started pushing it where F7 wouldn't go....up to 3.29ghz now
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Thats great. I've been stuck at 3.26 with F7 for ages. Where do you get the F10 Bios. I can only see 8 on the GB page?
 
Dmack said:
How come my e6300 temps are higher at 2.7 than 2.8/2.9 ??
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The CPU cooler can only cool the CPU down to a few degrees above ambient, so if you have turned the heating off or the weather has changed it can have a marked effect on CPU temperature. Also - if you have *** CPU fan set to PWM it may be letting it fluctuate a bit more depending on load.

Dmack said:
Also should i plug the intake or the outtake fan into the system fan port
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Doesn't matter so long as it's not a monster fan. Big, powerful fans should only be driven off the PSU directly.
 
Nutbusta said:
Thats great. I've been stuck at 3.26 with F7 for ages. Where do you get the F10 Bios. I can only see 8 on the GB page?
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I got it from the GB page
Umm...not sure why it isnt showing for you.

Im still at 3.29 but its been running all night, might get it to 3.3 just to round it off lol
 
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dheyworth1981 said:
I got it from the GB page
Umm...not sure why it isnt showing for you.

Im still at 3.29 but its been running all night, might get it to 3.3 just to round it off lol
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That's a great overclock. I went to the F9 BIOS and got all the problems you guys have had with the resetting. Whenever I switch it on I never know if it will be going through the cycle of on and off's or whether it will boot.

I'm off to find BIOS v10.

Updated: Installed F10 BIOS, much smoother booting up process! Going to try and get past 2.9Ghz now!

I noticed there is a new option for memory faster than 1000Mhz, two options that you can switch between - I guess I don't need this though.

Updated: Well trying to go above an FSB of 420 just won't work for me even with F10 BIOS. The system just won't boot with an FSB of 425 or 430, but works fine at 420x7=[email protected].
 
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Buffalo2102 said:
I think this may be to do with the fact that the P965 chipset seems to clock to a higher FSB and so is better for the CPU with lower multi - nothing to do with cache size.
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Ah right ok. However I'm not hitting 400 yet others are 400-450 on same board I thought?

Going to try removing the soundcard + firewire card incase they are holding back the FSB.
 
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