Official Gigabyte DS3 Owners Thread

Yip it is. Tho you only need to change to it if you're planning on clocking the nuts off the Q6600.

The Rev 1 P965 DS3 will take a Q6600 to about 3ghz. Mine did 2.95ghz on my one. My new P35 DS3P doesn't limit my Q6600 overclock (3.33ghz). The CPU's load temps do that instead.
 
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Cob said:
Yes the Q6600 does work in the Rev 1.0, tho it won't overclock it past a 330-340mhz FSB. It's a P965 chipset limitation.
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So if I currently have a E6320 in my Rev.1 at 456Mhz and I swap it for a Quad then I won't be able to reach those speeds?
 
Hi all,

Just got my DS3 (Rev 3.3) along with a E4300 and 2x2GB OCZ PC6400 Ram. Testing what i can get out of it now.

I am running Vista64 so Coretemp and TAT won't work. Speedfan gives a few readings but i am unsure which reading to believe for my CPU temp. It has Temp2, Core 0 and Core 1. Which should be most accurate?

All of them are in the 60's atm when testing so i'm going to reaseat the stock fan and try again
 
Hi. I've got a Gigabyte 965P-DS3 rev 3.3 and I'm thinking about overclocking my e2140. I've heard the southbridge can get very hot and when I was installing my 8800GTS I noticed that it was literally sitting on top of the southbridge, bascially making it impossible to put a fan on there if I wanted. I'm also worried about my GTS sitting right on the southbridge if it gets really hot.

Could it melt anything off the GTS? Would a little fan pointing at the southbridge help?

Thanks.
 
should be fine aslong as you have a decent airflow in your case, a little fan pointed towards it couldnt do any harm though. Never had any problems when i ran my 3ghz overclock on a e4300 with an 8800 though
 
Just wondering if I just throw the new cpu in. Will vista make me reinstall. I know xp used to. Or can i sling it and do a repair of vista. I can't be arsed to backup and reinstall.
 
hello all.
really need some help here please!

just became a member of the Gigabyte fan club, (from asus)
but...

after getting my new parts today,
im having a lot of problems,

i hope the members using this thread can help me :)

i made a thread in general, but i think this thread will be better for it.
my problem is...

my new spec is...

Gigabyte GA_P35C_DS3R (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 & DDR3 Motherboard
OCZ 2GB (2 x 1GB) PC2-8500 1066MHz SLI-Ready Edition Dual Channel DDR2 (OCZ2N1066SR2GK)
Intel Core 2 Quad Pro Q6600 "LGA775 Kentsfield" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - Retail
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro CPU Cooler (Socket 775)
Corsair HX 620W ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU (CMPSU-620HXUK)
2x 74gig / raid - raptors.
512mb ATI Sapphire x1900xtx

i first put it all together carefully...
went to power her up... it powered up for about a second then turned itself off. then a second later turned back again.... :/ (found out its a overclocking saftey feature, scared me at first)

the only bleep i get is 1 long, then sometimes around 10 seconds later, i get another 1 long bleep...
- i took one of the ocz sticks out, but still same problem,
- no boot/post

no display either on monitor...

dont know what to do... if you look back at my previous threads.. kinda same problems. but this is a little different and totaly new parts

anyone got some help at hand?
what could be the problem?
 
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MoNkEyMiKeY said:
Just wondering if I just throw the new cpu in. Will vista make me reinstall. I know xp used to. Or can i sling it and do a repair of vista. I can't be arsed to backup and reinstall.
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No need to reinstall or repair if just changing the CPU.
 
warren_1979 said:
Hi. I've got a Gigabyte 965P-DS3 rev 3.3 and I'm thinking about overclocking my e2140. I've heard the southbridge can get very hot and when I was installing my 8800GTS I noticed that it was literally sitting on top of the southbridge, bascially making it impossible to put a fan on there if I wanted. I'm also worried about my GTS sitting right on the southbridge if it gets really hot.

Could it melt anything off the GTS? Would a little fan pointing at the southbridge help?

Thanks.
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Both the northbridge and southbridge get very hot, but this is normal. Just make sure you have a case fan blowing over the board area in general and it will be fine.
 
Cob said:
Which PSU are you using?
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sorry forgot to add that, edited post and put it in also, but its a new...

Corsair HX 620W ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU (CMPSU-620HXUK)

just wont POST/or display anything on monitor, signal is there, but goes into sleep mode.

monitor is a dell 2047 24inch, have no problems with it, as it plays fine on me xbox 360, so i know it works.
 
checked the jumpers? cleared the CMOS? hold down delete or insert and then turn it on and keep holding for a bit, forgot which it is but usually when i break something this works, im probably imagining it like.
 
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