Official Gigabyte DS3 Owners Thread

I'll be getting this board Thursday also, along with 1GB GeiL ULL RAM and an E6300 - i'll let you know how i get on overclocking :P.
 
Well I seem to have hit a wall at 3.2GHz with my E4300 and 1GB GeIL ULL

Currently at 360x9 with a DIMM voltage of 2.3 and Vcore of 1.42 with RAM timings of 4-4-4-12

Latest BIOS and everything but I dont seem to be able to get any further :(

These temps are at idle and they jump to 50ish when on load. Have a new northbridge and HSF coming soon so im hoping they will make things more stable.

http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc?id=165283

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JamesM said:
Well I seem to have hit a wall at 3.2GHz with my E4300 and 1GB GeIL ULL

Currently at 360x9 with a DIMM voltage of 2.3 and Vcore of 1.42 with RAM timings of 4-4-4-12

Latest BIOS and everything but I dont seem to be able to get any further :(

These temps are at idle and they jump to 50ish when on load. Have a new northbridge and HSF coming soon so im hoping they will make things more stable.

http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc?id=165283

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slack the timings on your ram a bit.
 
Ive tried 5-5-5-17 and it crashed :(

Will double check everything tonight and see what I can do. Received a new northbridge cooler today so hopefully that should cool that down a tad!
 
Still no luck on the G.Skill NR with any of the bios, and it doesn't look like they're going to fix it as they've not done anything with memory since F5, so to hell with it, it's been too long now and memory prices have finally dropped. Geil 6400 C4s £130, tasty.
 
ilh said:
Still no luck on the G.Skill NR with any of the bios, and it doesn't look like they're going to fix it as they've not done anything with memory since F5, so to hell with it, it's been too long now and memory prices have finally dropped. Geil 6400 C4s £130, tasty.
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i've also got the NR ram which i so regret of buying. i got most of my components when i was in the far east for a holiday last month. i didnt know much the ram but thought it being gskill it should be ok. at the moment it maxes out at 450fsb (2.1V ram voltage) for a 6300 but i know the chip is ok at 460fsb as it runs orthos fine. it fails on the orhos blend test so it must be the ram. what gets me the most is i could have got corsairs (micron d9 chips) for only 7quid more! but thought the gskill will clock just as good :mad:
 
Stupid question - what do I need to set the fan control to in the BIOS to enable SmartFan in EasyTune 5? I don't seem to be able to get it working and I'd like to see how well it performs rather than having my Freezer Pro 7 on full whack all the time... at least until I get a Tuniq!

Alternatively...I don't like EasyTune so is there a way to set a mininum RPM in the BIOS and a threshold upon which to whack up to full pelt?

Cheers!
 
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Solari said:
Stupid question - what do I need to set the fan control to in the BIOS to enable SmartFan in EasyTune 5? I don't seem to be able to get it working and I'd like to see how well it performs rather than having my Freezer Pro 7 on full whack all the time... at least until I get a Tuniq!

Alternatively...I don't like EasyTune so is there a way to set a mininum RPM in the BIOS and a threshold upon which to whack up to full pelt?

Cheers!
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Set the fan control to Legacy and PWM in the BIOS and the fan should stay at a nice steady 1000RPM or so.
 
serenity888 said:
i've also got the NR ram which i so regret of buying. i got most of my components when i was in the far east for a holiday last month. i didnt know much the ram but thought it being gskill it should be ok. at the moment it maxes out at 450fsb (2.1V ram voltage) for a 6300 but i know the chip is ok at 460fsb as it runs orthos fine. it fails on the orhos blend test so it must be the ram. what gets me the most is i could have got corsairs (micron d9 chips) for only 7quid more! but thought the gskill will clock just as good :mad:
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I also bought the NR RAM but had loads of problems with it. I eventually RMA'd it to G-Skill citing my problems with the DS3, even though I had seen posts by their own technicians on another forum saying that it was compatible with the DS3. Strangely enough, the NR ram they were posting about was 1.8v which I found curious.
Anyway, G-Skill very kindly sent me some NQ ram in return which is 1.8v default and I haven't had any problems at all. Works out of the box and clocks well too (currently at 972MHz).
 
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