Official Gigabyte DS3 Owners Thread

naudiz · 12 May 2007 at 12:26

I wonder if it would be worth upgrading to see if it fixes my Ocing issue?

Naud

MeatLoaf · 12 May 2007 at 13:11

Cob said:
It's not really common, but F9D solved Meatloafs boot problems.

Its my board hes got although i didnt have any problems once the BIOS was flashed

The Old Man · 12 May 2007 at 16:09

Thanks for the heads up!

Duke · 12 May 2007 at 16:49

Updated opening post with new bios.

khemist · 13 May 2007 at 15:06

Going to give F11 a bash, on F10 atm.

Sinny · 13 May 2007 at 15:48

this guide will work on the DQ6 yes? but i would have to disable more features.

Cob · 13 May 2007 at 15:52

Sinny said:
this guide will work on the DQ6 yes? but i would have to disable more features.

It should be fine. They're virtually the same board.

Sinny · 13 May 2007 at 16:17

Cob said:
It should be fine. They're virtually the same board.

thanks for the heads up, my 7300gt will arrive on monday so i can finnially overclock my e6420, its on stock cooling so what speed do you think i should go up to, 2.7 - 2.8 stable?

also i plan to get watercooling to get it past 3.0ghz stable.

Cob · 13 May 2007 at 16:24

You should be able to get an e6420 to 3.2-3.3ghz on air (Not with the stock cooler tho.). A bit more with water if you've got a decent chip.

Sinny · 13 May 2007 at 16:35

Cob said:
You should be able to get an e6420 to 3.2-3.3ghz on air (Not with the stock cooler tho.). A bit more with water if you've got a decent chip.

what do you mean by chip, i have 965p if thats what you mean as i heard its a very good overclocking chip, motherboard is a DQ6 so it has the odd silent cooling thing.

Cob · 13 May 2007 at 16:42

By chip i mean the e6420.

And the P965 chipset certainly won't hold you back.

sgx.saint · 14 May 2007 at 17:25

Hey.

I've been recommended in the general hardware forum to include this board in my new PC build.

I've been looking at the details, and I noticed that aside from heatsinks on the northbridge and the southbridge that there is no other type of cooling. i.e. fans.

My last motherboard, which is no where as near as good as the DS3 had fans on both the N/S bridges.

Why is there no other cooling solutions, and does this not effect performance, especially if this is meant to be an overclocking board?

I am only asking this as it has been a while since I built a system, and am curious more than anything else.

Also, I note there is only 2 PCI slots, I would have thought there would be more. Again, my previous board had 5.

Cob · 14 May 2007 at 17:49

I don't think any P965 boards have fans. And tbh most older boards that had fans didn't really need them.

The DS3 has three PCI slots, and the DS3P has two because of the extra PCI-E slot. There's only so much space on a motherboard.

Duke · 14 May 2007 at 18:28

Yeah most run without fans now, except Nvidia typically. They do run hot but are stable.

sgx.saint · 14 May 2007 at 21:10

Oh right, learn something new everyday

IceWolf · 15 May 2007 at 21:31

hi - i also haven't built for a while and was recommended this board.

I'm going to get a E6600 core 2 duo 2.4ghz - just wondering what speed ram is stock for that chip, and therefore what speed ram to get for an easy 3.0ghz overclock? I was looking at corsair 2gb XMS2 6400C4 but i am tempted by 4gb of something instead.

anyone using the onboard sound? i only need 5.1 so i'm hoping this will be good enough for games since i have had no end of problems with my audigy 2 drivers.

IceWolf · 15 May 2007 at 22:10

Actually if any of you have the time could you have a quick look at my thread here:

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17729896
regarding a new system with this motherboard

Thanks

Duke · 15 May 2007 at 22:36

IceWolf said:
hi - i also haven't built for a while and was recommended this board.

I'm going to get a E6600 core 2 duo 2.4ghz - just wondering what speed ram is stock for that chip, and therefore what speed ram to get for an easy 3.0ghz overclock? I was looking at corsair 2gb XMS2 6400C4 but i am tempted by 4gb of something instead.

anyone using the onboard sound? i only need 5.1 so i'm hoping this will be good enough for games since i have had no end of problems with my audigy 2 drivers.

Hey there,

The FSB for the 6600 is 266MHz. 6400 DDR2 ram is 400MHz, so there is plenty of headroom for overclocking. For example my 6600 is at 378 FSB is 3.4GHz. My chip my go higher but its running perfect at this anyway. If you ran the memory at its rated/stock speed of 400Mhz, then the 6600 would be running at 3.6GHz (400 x 9 = 3600).

Unless you are doing encoding or CAD etc then you'll find 4GB is a bit of a waste at the moment. I've got 2GB and don't think I've seen it actually use more than 1GB during gaming etc. Upto you though.. ram is cheap at the moment, so it is a good time to buy.

Onboard sound now a days is generally good. I was running an Audigy 4 PCI but took it out and just used the onboard and found no difference on quality.

Your spec looks good on that list. Nothing stands out as being a problem

IceWolf · 16 May 2007 at 04:29

hmm - ok if the extra ram is currently not needed i might leave that for now. I've got to wait 2 months to buy all this anyway so hopefully they might release Crysis recommended specs by then...

If that doesn't need it nothing will

mac · 20 May 2007 at 22:53

FatRakoon said:
If you are not interested in RAID, then just using the OnBoard is just fine.

There are 6 ports... 4 Orange and 2 Purple.

The 2 purple ones are using the same controler as the IDE Port.

So, the PC sees the 4 orange ones first, then the IDE Port, and then the Purple ones.

If you are to use them as just normal HD ports, they are fine.

i however, would like to raid two sata2 drives. whch controller do i go for? whats the difference? any problems i should know about running them in vista? im intending to have xp and vista on sepereate partitions btw.