Official Gigabyte DS3 Owners Thread

Just got hold of a new E6600 chip to try out. My old one wasn't great and could only manage 3.4-3.5 as one core wasn't good. Hopefully this will be a better OCer. My old one was one of the first batches in the UK.

Results tonight as I test/bench :)
 
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All working okay. Took a photo of a new bios options, which I'll post tomorrow when I have time. It looks like some fail safe backup memory config or similar. Could stop help having to clear bios on a bad overclock maybe?
 
Rizz said:
Has anyone else noticed at 400 + the northbride heatsink is very hot i was a 430 and burnt my finger on it so backed it down to 400
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I would recommend a case fan blowing over the motherboard to help keep the NB, ram etc cool :)
 
bobinski said:
Hi there is a 4 pin bit on a connecting cable which i have plugged into the 12 v{?} connector beside the cpu.It all works but fails to boot into xp.
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After a clean install or have you swapped the board and using an older install of XP?
 
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
 
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?
 
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.
 
SidewinderINC said:
quick question, in the bios when you change the voltages around, is the "System voltages NOT optimised" flag meant to keep flashing as long as any voltages are manually selected?
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Just one of those things. I think they want noobs to do auto, so to not fry it :)
 
danv said:
Chaps, going slightly OT (for which I apologise) but has anyone been able to send motherboards of one type back to OCUK, change to a different make/model and been able to pay any difference?

Ive just seen the specs for the Asus P5N-E and thats got two IDE sockets... maybe I didnt do my homework like I said above.. :(

Cheers for any thoughts.
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I don't know but could be worth sending them an webnote asking :)
 
SidewinderINC said:
what is the highest safe voltage to be giving the northbridge?
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Off the top of my head it goes upto +0.3v? I would say that is fine if you have a fan blowing over the board - memory/chipset/etc.
 
FatRakoon said:
Im using a pair of 60mm's blowing over the GFX and onto the NB ( Stock heatsink ).
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60mm will be quite loud to get a reasonable air movement from them. Could you get a 92 or 120mm fan over it? If you reduce them to 5 or 6v they are silent but still cover a good area.
 
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