Official Gigabyte DS3 Owners Thread

Thank you so i have a PCI-E graphics card so there would be no difference. I am trying to install the latest drivers for my motherboard to overclock but trying to install them in Vista wont work.
Does anybody know why?
 
Im wondering why you need the latest drivers to overclock?

On the other hand, if I run mine with Vista, not only do I get the ridiculous slowdowns, farts , spits and clinks of the Raptor stopping and starting all the time, if I so much as even considered clocking it, the little bugger would run at 700MHZ... No more... No less.

Perhaps thats what you are getting too?

I gave up and have gone back to XP64 and its running silky smooth and vastly quicker and better than Vista wanted to.
 
rtatts said:
Thank you so i have a PCI-E graphics card so there would be no difference. I am trying to install the latest drivers for my motherboard to overclock but trying to install them in Vista wont work.
Does anybody know why?
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I dunno :p - probably ;)

But I have eprsonally always found onboard graphics good as a backup incase your Garphics Card screws up (which happened to me more than one :rolleyes:)

Depends how much extra it is I guess
 
I attempted my first overclock yesterday using a e2140 and a Gigabyte p965 DS3. I thought everything was going OK but now I've just been greeted with a 'checking hard drive for consistency' blue screen when I turned the PC on. The PC did its checks and booted into windows but its spooked me a little.

Here's my spec.

2140
Gigabyte P965 DS3 rev.3
2 Gig Crucial Ballistix PC6400
Corsair HX520
SATA 160gb WD harddrive (on Jmicron controller)
8800gt

The 2140 is sitting at 2.8ghz and although I haven't fully stressed it yet I was playing Crysis all last night no problem. I locked the PCI-E frequency at 102mhz.

Strange thing is since the overclock when I turn my PC on I get some high frequency noise that sometimes masks the post beep and it sounds exactly like a noise I got when I first built my PC and attached two IDE drives incorrectly.

I've noticed since the 'checking hard drive for consistency' blue screen there is a BIOS entry that wasn't there before in the PnP/PCI Configuration screen. Its called PCI Latency Timer (CLK) and its set to [32].

Whats gone wrong and how can I fix it?
 
I get the BSODs from random things when iv got a bad overclock. ie to high or not enough volts.
best of waiting for one of the more experienced overclockers to help you though, if you want a quick fix just turn the overclock down a bit
 
I'm going to try and stick the HD on the intel ICH8 instead of the Jmicron and see what happens.

Does anyone know if its possible to change SATA controllers on the DS3 with a windows install on the drive or will I need to reinstall windows?
 
Duke

What's the difference between the DS3 and GA-965P-DS3P? I know it has more SATA ports, but was mainly wondering about the BIOS. I am having problems with my DS3P booting when there is memory in slots 1 and 2 and was wondering whether my F5 Bios is the latest. Gigabyte site very slow today.

Cheers
 
Hi guys,

I would like to know how ppl are finding the DS3 Rev 1 and the Q6600 G0. Is it all good or has there been any issues?

Seriously considering upgrading to one of these from my current 6300.
 
CatMangler said:
Hi guys,

I would like to know how ppl are finding the DS3 Rev 1 and the Q6600 G0. Is it all good or has there been any issues?

Seriously considering upgrading to one of these from my current 6300.
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It has no issues running the Q6600 (providing you have the F12 BIOS) other than overclocking. It's rumoured to be able to hit a 380mhz FSB, tho I've seen no evidence of it. 355-360mhz (~3.2ghz) seems more like it.
 
I see asrock have released bioses to enable wolfdale/yorkdale processors on their socket 775 mobos, do you think Gigabyte will release a bios update to enable support for the 45mn cpus on my version 1.0 DS3. Because the mobo is rock solid for the past 15months. I have never had a motherboard installed for this long in the past 15 years of building pcs:eek:. Have never seen a motherboard worth changing over to.

Rob H
 
Hard to say. They still haven't released a BIOS for the 1333mhz Conroes and Kentsfields for rev1.0, so it may be a hardware issue.

As it stands only Rev 3.3 will take them.
 
I would have thought 1066mhz wolfdale and yorkdale would be supported though. I know the rev 1.0 and 2.0 chipset version doesn't support the 1333mhz bus properly so I didn't expect oficial support for 1333mhz but it can be done through overclocking though.

Rob H
 
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