Official Gigabyte DS3 Owners Thread

FatRakoon said:
Easier???

EASIER???

I found it to be a total pain!

I could get any 3 of the legs in, but on trying the 4th, Id find one of the others would pop out all the time.

Im still not totally convinced that I have done a good enough job, although its been in there are working fine for a fair while now, I must have done... Still... I cant help but feel that one day its just going to pop off.

No, I will say that I am very happy with the Artic Freezers all *** same.

I got a Pro and a non-pro for Socket 939, they are about on par with the Stock cooler from the FX55 although I think Id probably edge *** stock cooler a notch higher due to the build quality of it, but also on the NON-Pro AF64 the fan blows towards the back, and the Pro64 it blows upwards... This leaves very little room from the top of the Graphics card on a number of my boards and has been a limiting factor.

The Non-Pro caused no end of issues with my Neo2 ( Main Board at the time ) especially as my PSU was an Ultra-X Connect and this caused the Floppy / IDE / PSU cables to bunch up and stopthe fan from spinning ( Cured with Cable Ties )

The DS3 now has one, and its fine, its doing an ok job, but thats all it does... And ok job. It will be replaced soon enough.
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When i put the intel cooler on (my first time with a 775 board and cooler), i struggled pushing the pins in and to get them to click. The board was flexing and I just wanted to go easy. As for the freezer pro, I took the fan off (real easy, nice feature and as per the instructions), fitted the heatsink and it clipped in straight away. I was prepared for the sruggle like the intel cooler but it went on like a breeze. Re-fitted the fan and all good to go.
 
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I find this board a real pain to over clock compared to the S3 i was on, all i get now is none boots, i get all the beeps i should but the monitor doesn't boot up, wish i had got another s3 version tbh.
 
Sorry, are you comparing the DS3 to the S3?

I got both you see... I find them pretty much the same in every way.

I got the 6300 in the DS3 and the 6600 in the S3 as I am clocking the 6300 further and I dont entirely trust the S3, and well, I have had the DS3 longer and I now know its ways, the S3 is still at this time and unknown entity.
 
Just going on my use of both, i had no problems overclocking the S3 i do the same thing on the DS3 as they the same board apart from the solid capacitors on the DS3 and i get hassles, boot up probs etc i put me 6320 back to stock and not overclocking, i don't game much on pc now but do encode etc.
 
WJA96 said:
Definitely sounds like someone needs to cut back on the caffeine if you're snapping things. ;)
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ROTFLMAO. NO It wasnt `me` that broke them. They broke away themselves, each lasted about 6months. (and they have 3 lugs on each side) Only knew when temps shot up. On an Asus Kv8-x (which I didnt have to take the mobo out to fit the cooler) that was on the ds3. Anyway It got me mad after the second time of breaking ,so it got a good beating and I fitted a Ruby orb, which didnt need the retention bracket.
 
Jabbs said:
Just going on my use of both, i had no problems overclocking the S3 i do the same thing on the DS3 as they the same board apart from the solid capacitors on the DS3 and i get hassles, boot up probs etc i put me 6320 back to stock and not overclocking, i don't game much on pc now but do encode etc.
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What did you get your `stable o/c to on your DS3?
 
Never got one m8 had it at 2.5 but when i reboot the pc it will never start up properly, i get the beep etc but the monitor never switches on. I can't be arsed removing the card all the time to reset the cmos so i just leave it unplugged and after 5 mins or so it boots up with default clocks so now i can't be bothered tbfh.

I think ill flog this stuff and just get a cheaper AM2, i can get somet like a 6000/mobo pretty much for what i can get for this and ill just not bother over clocking again but i would need a c2d at 2.6 to match that so it will be faster than what overclock i could get out of this atm, as i say i don't game at all now.
 
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I don't think i missed something but here goes........

I went through the bios and disabled the options for things like speedstepping etc that allow the cpu to throttle up and down according to load.

I've done a mild overclock to 2.8Ghz.

Intel TAT reporst a constant 2.8Ghz, however with cpu-z running alongside it, cpu-z reports the cores throttling between the 2.8 setting then down to 2.1 with the FSB speed staying at 350Mhz but the multiplier switching between x6 and x8.

when i switch to 100% load in TAT the readings in cpu-z stay at 2.8Ghz which tells me it's load throttling.

Any ideas ?

I'll need to check the manual agin for the bios settings.

P.S. What bios setting do people use for the GFX card...set mine to turbo which i assume gives you constant X16 on the pci-e slot.
 
Just RMA'd a abit board and ordered a DS3 to partner a e2140 and Crucial Ballistix pc5300 . I take it all the boards being sold now are rev 3.3?
 
Easytunes is useless to be honest.
The cpu reading its showing there for you is taken from the socket sensor on the motherboard itself where as tat, everest etc show the actual cpu core readings which are taken directly from the cpu.
Thats why the 2 temps your seeing are so far apart from each other.
The only ones which really matter are the core temps :)
 
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Well, I thought it was going ok.....

PC has been booting fine for past couple of days.

Just turned it on and it did a prolonged beep, re-booted and booted into windows ok but it de-overclocked itself back to defaults.

Any ideas ?????????
 
plasmahal said:
Well, I thought it was going ok.....

PC has been booting fine for past couple of days.

Just turned it on and it did a prolonged beep, re-booted and booted into windows ok but it de-overclocked itself back to defaults.

Any ideas ?????????
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Does it reset in windows or just on cold boot? Im glad to say my P35-DQ6 does not have this problem.
 
I got and installed my Ds3P Rev 3.3 and E6600 C2D.

I only have 1 sata drive connected on channel 0, and two optical drives connected on the IDE channel.

I only bought Crucial Ballistix 5300 ram, 2x 2gb, so am limited by the speed it will run at, managed 3.5ghz ram @ 780, orthos tested for 8.5 hours with no errors (cpu stress), but with cpu and ram it fails after 2 mins, run at 3.4ghz and passed 6 mins so far :) ram @ 760.

Things i have noticed, on cold boot at 3.5, ram @ 780, system would power on then off and back on again at defaults (think this is because of the ram), not fully tested at 3.4 yet so will see.

Also noticed that when turned on, post screen takes ages to start detecting the drives, before windows loads ??? is this because my IDe only has CD roms on it ?
 
megatron said:
Does it reset in windows or just on cold boot? Im glad to say my P35-DQ6 does not have this problem.
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No, it re-booted before getting to windows.

It part post'ed and re-cycled itself to boot up with the overclocking gone.

Been running fine for a while with a 2.8 Ghz clock and i ran it at 3.2ghz for a while on the old intel cooler and it was stable then.

Mysterious........
 
UKDTweak said:
Things i have noticed, on cold boot at 3.5, ram @ 780, system would power on then off and back on again at defaults (think this is because of the ram), not fully tested at 3.4 yet so will see.
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I had this on my DS3 and its to do with RAM as you say, what timings and voltage are you running the ballistix at?
 
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