Official Gigabyte DS3 Owners Thread

Can someone please confirm (or not) if with a GPU that takes up two slots will all 3 pci slots be free to use? There looks like a mighty big gap between the PCI-E slot and the PCI's.... I hope so, I do love having many PCI slots.

Besides the memory probs.. with voltage for some DIMMs on the older BIOS.. are there any other probs with this 1st generation board? If not then thats not bad at all.
 
Anyone have problems with no vga signal when turning on their PC? It seems to happen to me the first time I turn it on and then if I switch off and turn it back on again, it works fine. When there is no vga signal, there is still hard disk activity so I assume its booting into Windows fine.

I'm on the F4 BIOS and I've overclocked the PCI-Express to 105MHz.

Anyone have the same problem or advice on this? Thx.
 
uk_sam said:
Anyone have problems with no vga signal when turning on their PC? It seems to happen to me the first time I turn it on and then if I switch off and turn it back on again, it works fine. When there is no vga signal, there is still hard disk activity so I assume its booting into Windows fine.

I'm on the F4 BIOS and I've overclocked the PCI-Express to 105MHz.

Anyone have the same problem or advice on this? Thx.
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Yeah I've had something similar to that happen to me. I'm on the F4 bios too.

Think its only happened once so far /scratches head

Cant remember if it was a cold start or a reboot but I had no video display. I had to power cycle my monitor to get the display back as HD's and fans were running fine.

Strange, I have a very similar setup to you check my sig..
 
uk_sam said:
Anyone have problems with no vga signal when turning on their PC? It seems to happen to me the first time I turn it on and then if I switch off and turn it back on again, it works fine. When there is no vga signal, there is still hard disk activity so I assume its booting into Windows fine.

I'm on the F4 BIOS and I've overclocked the PCI-Express to 105MHz.

Anyone have the same problem or advice on this? Thx.
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happened to me a couple of times too on the F3 and F4
 
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Well now i can join the DS3 owners club! This is one motherboard you really hav to read up on. If i didnt spend the last week reading up on problems and solutions for this board i think i would have been stumped. But once all the bios is updated this makes a fantastic board for overclocking.

Currently running at:
6300 at 3.01GHZ
Geil 6400 800mhz 4-4-4-12 as the spec said (no issues with my ram)

All i found was that everything had to be eased into going a bit faster, i couldn't at first set the ram at 4-4-4-12 as it didnt seem to like it at anything below 800mhz, instead it liked to sit at 5-6-6-(something high) when running at 667.

So thanks overclockers for another great purchase!

Edit: Quick question, whats the top voltage i should be settings on air for vDimm and vCore?
 
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Yup def overclocking, currently sat at:
6300 3.22Ghz stock volts
Geil 920Mhz 5-5-5-15 2.1v (haven't tried lowering these back down in stages yet)
PCI-E 105Mhz

Temps are maxing at 54/55C now, worth pushing more?
 
There are a few ways, some of which are:

Check the flash screen when your PC boots,
go into BIOS and use the F9 key to display a system summary
use the Gigabyte utils on the drivers disk,

To update BIOS use the in built tools in the BIOS itself, create a bootable dos disk & flash from dos, or use @BIOS from within windows (I think the windows util is called @BIOS)
 
Mr Sniper said:
Yup def overclocking, currently sat at:
6300 3.22Ghz stock volts
Geil 920Mhz 5-5-5-15 2.1v (haven't tried lowering these back down in stages yet)
PCI-E 105Mhz

Temps are maxing at 54/55C now, worth pushing more?
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Hi,
I'm ready to give overclocking a go, same chip and mobo and ram. What CPU multiplier settings did you use? Is there any advantage to overclocking the PCI-Express to 105Mhz?

Thanks,
Gra.
 
To be honest i dont know why everyone does overclock the PCI-E to 105, the only reason i could find was that it was more stable for cpu overclocking. stick to the highest multi you can, you should only be able to see 6x and 7x so pick 7x.

I've also managed to get it to 3.29 (3.3 basically) using 470FSB now, still on stock volts for CPU.
 
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