Official Gigabyte DS3 Owners Thread

hey guys quick question for all you owners! Am I right in thinking that the DS4 can be enabled for both SLi and Crossfire? As I see it has 2xPCI-E slots and a bios release enabled crossfire. Does this mean you can swap between the two if need be?

*Edit done a search and seems its just crossfire :( there I was getting my hopes up lol*
 
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jrodga2k5 said:
hey guys quick question for all you owners! Am I right in thinking that the DS4 can be enabled for both SLi and Crossfire? As I see it has 2xPCI-E slots and a bios release enabled crossfire. Does this mean you can swap between the two if need be?

*Edit done a search and seems its just crossfire :( there I was getting my hopes up lol*
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SLI can be used with hacked/altered drivers or so I believe.
 
Wow...got my E6600 running on my DS3 Rev 3.3 (With 4GB of Geil Ultra) at 3.2Ghz stable :eek: With an arctic freezer 7 pro, temps are at around 58C under full load on both cores!! Its idling at around 30C - Unbelievable!!

Just went from an A64 4000+, ASROCK Dual Sata 2, 2GB Corsair to this setup (Stuffed into an Antec P190) and to be honest, its like **** off a shovel..

Now to replace that old X1800XT with something a bit more .......'conducive' :D

Kudos to Duke for the original guide and also to jaric (who pointed me in the right direction)
 
Cob said:
Rev 1.0 does support the 1333mhz processors with the correct BIOS's.
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Really? I emailed Gigabyte tech support and they claim it doesn't.

Which BIOS adds support for 1333MHz FSB to Rev 1 boards? It'd be great if I can replace my E6300 with an E6750 or E6850 without changing motherboards.
 
I've got a 965P-DS3, E6600 and 2 x 1Gb Ballistix PC2-5300 RAM.

Didn't see any replies from people who said they were using the Ballistix but I found (in Vista, haven't tried elsewhere) that Prime95 on Torture Test was failing after about 5 seconds on the first test.

Odd thing was that only one of the chips seemed not to work. Put in some Kingston RAM the same and it tested fine. So I sent it back to OcUK who sent it back to me saying it was fine. I *knew* it wasn't so I sent it back to Crucial. Just got some replacements back and they do the same thing!

My BIOS firmware is the latest 12.

I got an email from Crucial Tech support giving timings etc, checked this and the other thread on this mobo and (just wanting to see if it was the mobo) set the RAM timings only to the max Ballistix timings of 3, 3, 3, 12 (the first 4 options after DRAM Timing Selectable right?) and set the DDR2 OverVoltage Control to +0.4 to match the 2.2V the Ballistix site says. Having done that, Prime95 doesn't fail. System boots and seems to run fine, the PC Health > DDR18V status says fail now though.

To my actual question after all that rambling. Is this the right way to have set up the RAM, there are multiple warnings on the settings I've changed about damaging the system by changing etc. Just want to check that these were the right ones to change and that the DDR18V is fine?

Appreciate the replies to put my mind at rest.

Tristan
 
TreeUK said:
I've got a 965P-DS3, E6600 and 2 x 1Gb Ballistix PC2-5300 RAM.

Didn't see any replies from people who said they were using the Ballistix but I found (in Vista, haven't tried elsewhere) that Prime95 on Torture Test was failing after about 5 seconds on the first test.

Odd thing was that only one of the chips seemed not to work. Put in some Kingston RAM the same and it tested fine. So I sent it back to OcUK who sent it back to me saying it was fine. I *knew* it wasn't so I sent it back to Crucial. Just got some replacements back and they do the same thing!

My BIOS firmware is the latest 12.

I got an email from Crucial Tech support giving timings etc, checked this and the other thread on this mobo and (just wanting to see if it was the mobo) set the RAM timings only to the max Ballistix timings of 3, 3, 3, 12 (the first 4 options after DRAM Timing Selectable right?) and set the DDR2 OverVoltage Control to +0.4 to match the 2.2V the Ballistix site says. Having done that, Prime95 doesn't fail. System boots and seems to run fine, the PC Health > DDR18V status says fail now though.

To my actual question after all that rambling. Is this the right way to have set up the RAM, there are multiple warnings on the settings I've changed about damaging the system by changing etc. Just want to check that these were the right ones to change and that the DDR18V is fine?

Appreciate the replies to put my mind at rest.

Tristan
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Im not entirely sure on the BIOS REV but yes,the Volts are fine, and the warning does come up on other BIOS revisions and its normal, so you can ignore it... It is after all only a warning that the volts are NOT-STANDARD, but then you know that cos you set it to suit the RAM.

I myself am running BIOS F7, got myself 4x1GB of GEIL RAM and have taken it to 500FSB and not once have I had a single issue with mine so no intention of touching the BIOS unless I have to.
 
Rev ? How to tell?

Is there a way to tell from the opsys or perhaps even by looking at the board itself what rev you have? I have this board but no idea if it's a Rev 1.1/2.0/3.3

It's currently running Bios F7 so I am guessing it probably is a Rev 1.1 or 2.0
 
mcwildcard said:
I have a rev 1.0 DS3, does it support 1333 FSB?
The OP says that it does with a BIOS update, but the CPU support list on the Gigabyte website says no?!

http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Support/...rboard&ProductID=2314&ProductName=GA-965P-DS3


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What's an OP????
So have we got to the bottom of it yet - can you get a 1333 to work in a rev 1?

According to one poster on a diff forum this is what the gigabyte tekkies told him:

The FSB 1333 CPU can use on this motherboard, if you change the CPU clock ratio to over clock and run FSB 1333, but we cannot guarantee over clock.
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OP = "Original post" or "Original poster"

I've also seen reports on another forum of an E6750 working in a rev 1 DS4.

So, here's what I think - it will work, assuming you can overclock the FSB to 333MHz (fairly easy on most DS3s). However, the voltage regulators probably aren't good enough to support the 45nm Penryn CPUs, which is why Gigabyte won't classify it as "1333MHz compatible" or make available a BIOS that provides native support for the new Conroes.

Does this make sense/seem reasonable?
 
Hey all, got a problem, not sure, but i think it may be my 965 DS3

What happens is that the computer just switches itself straight off (no warnings at all) then comes back on... but it does most times repeat this process.. preventing the pc being used at all.

Sometimes the pc doesnt POST, sometimes, it gets into windows fine, stays on for 10 mins, then shuts off and on again, and will be fine for hours, before doing it again.

This morning.. i had it where it wouldnt even get up to the POST part of booting before switching off...and it did it repeatedly. When it does boot up, POST is fine.

Sometimes also, the pc boots up, POSTs fine, but the screen stays black and nothing else seems to happen.

I thought it was a PSU problem, but have tried it in another pc and it worked first time.. but it does sometimes do that with my pc

any help is greatly appreciated.
 
P.J.Thomson said:
OP = "Original post" or "Original poster"

I've also seen reports on another forum of an E6750 working in a rev 1 DS4.

So, here's what I think - it will work, assuming you can overclock the FSB to 333MHz (fairly easy on most DS3s). However, the voltage regulators probably aren't good enough to support the 45nm Penryn CPUs, which is why Gigabyte won't classify it as "1333MHz compatible" or make available a BIOS that provides native support for the new Conroes.

Does this make sense/seem reasonable?
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Yep - anyone want to try it and let us know????? ;)
 
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