Official Gigabyte DS3 Owners Thread

plasmahal said:
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........
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Any ideas as to why it would do this after being stable for a few days ?

I ran orthos and stressed the settings with TAT aswell for over 30mins, so i thought it would be stable.

Just hope i havn't damaged the memory in anyway.
 
plasmahal said:
Any ideas as to why it would do this after being stable for a few days ?

I ran orthos and stressed the settings with TAT aswell for over 30mins, so i thought it would be stable.

Just hope i havn't damaged the memory in anyway.
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I find that if I overclock my Ram too high, i get the same post-reboot-defaults settings, perhaps your ram is failing ?

I have found that my Ballistix is only happy upto 760mhz 5-5-5-15, any higher speed or tighter timings and I get the above.
 
if i remember correctly, the memory was at default settings in that it wasn't overclocked. but i need to overclock again and this time take note of the memory settings.
 
Anyone use an Enermax EG365P-VE 350W PSU (20-pin) with this 24-pin Gigabyte DS3 board?

I know you can buy the converter but then that might not work so I'll have to get a new PSU!

Thanks in advance to anyone who replies!
 
Bernie_Li said:
Enermax EG365P-VE 350W PSU (20-pin)
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The Enermax is a great little PSU but, a little underpowered for these days.

I have used a 20pin in a number of boards and I know that a lot of boards work perfectly well on just 20pins, but there is a reason why they require 24 these days.... They do really need it.

I too, have used 20pin PSUs with 20-24 pin adapter and its fine. On my DS3, I used a Fortron Source 450 ( 20 pin ) with the adapter for a couple of weeks until I got a proper PSU and it did what I asked of it just fine.
 
Anybody with a DS3 rev 3.3 noticed any strange readings with Orthos and 3D Mark 06 when using a lower multiplier....

I have set my rig to run 8/426, in orthos and 3D Mark06, the CPU speed is registering as 3800 + with the wrong multi and FSB, yet CPU-z shows the correct details ?
 
My experiences and hopefully some pointers from you guys.

Ok got the 6400 Cpu and Ds3, 2 x 1gb corsair 6400c4

One stick of ram was faulty and rma'd These new sticks pass memtest, i checked straight away. here we go

Currently at 400fsb at 3.2ghz on air with freezer pro 7. Stock volts 1.325v.
Everything else as advised in this thread. Why stock vaults well i have a silverstone lc17s case and i want things quiet. It's Cramped in there too with the big cooler and 5 sharkoon quiet case fans. Passes orthos for 5 hours will try 24 hours later.

420fsb fails orthos - i was running the blend test if this is right.

Using intel tat temps at 46 idle 56 under stress test
Gigabyte easy tune says lots lower but trust bios and this more. Gonna remove easy tune seems pants.

Had some weird things happen today though while overclocking. Found If the memory didn't run around almost 1:1 fsb with the cpu i would lose my hardrives under post and xp boot up would take ages. Increasing fsb cured this. My ram voltage is 2.1v (+0.3v)and cannot be changed under bios now, permanently pink not yellow. memory timings are 4-4-4-12. also found that if you get an irregularity in bios resetting the cmos sorted it

Happy with this but any observations appreciated as i am new to these core2 lark, my other Pc in the sig is a P4. Have read 19 of these forum pages and only upto October 2006. Amazing how much stuff is repeated

can post cpuz and intel tat results and orthos screens if req'd. My bios is F11.

Want to get this thing running smoothly before a vista64 clean install. As it's oem i wan't to know what the motherboard can do.
 
UKDTweak said:
Anybody with a DS3 rev 3.3 noticed any strange readings with Orthos and 3D Mark 06 when using a lower multiplier....

I have set my rig to run 8/426, in orthos and 3D Mark06, the CPU speed is registering as 3800 + with the wrong multi and FSB, yet CPU-z shows the correct details ?
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Yip a lowered multi confuses a lot of software. Even the Windows System window will continue to calculate the speed using the default multi.
 
Hope someone can help with a quick and hopefully simple question:

I had to RMA my v1 due to it stuttering (see Pregnant Pauses thread) and now totally dying (all other components fine in another board).

Wondering, since I havent played with OC settings but if I had my FSB at 400mhz what would my Ram speed options be? Can I survive on PC6400 (800mhz) or MUST I get PC8500 (1066mhz).

Gives me some new bits to order to make the 2nd system around the RMA'd board and my "new" board (G33M-DS2R)...
 
Cob said:
At 400mhz, PC6400 will be fine if running at 1:1 (x2.0). Most PC6400 will be fine at 1:1 upto atleast 450mhz.
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Yes but what diff speeds COULD I run any memory at if the FSB was 400? Lower or higher speeds are of interest. I have to work out what to buy so that my options for re-jigging my systems are best!
 
You can't run the memory lower than the FSB on the P965 and P35 chipsets.

You can run it faster using the memory multipliers. IIRC the DS3's multipliers were x2.0, x2.5, x3.33 and x4.0.

Eg- x2.0 would run the memory at 800mhz with a 400mhz FSB.
x2.5 would run the memory at 1000mhz with a 400mhz FSB.
 
Hey guys,

Just got the DS3 and a 6600 Conroe, but only seeing 1 processor in CPU-Z :confused: . This is with a basic overclock to 2700 to test the water :)

 
Yeah, bring up the Device Manager and it will show you both your cores

Although to be fair... I just run CPUZ and at the bottom of mine it says 2 cores and 2 threads.... Yours is 1/1

Hmmm..

Im on v1.37 of CPUZ so I will have a play with another version ok.
 
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