Overclocking on P35C DS3R

Sirrel Squirrel · 28 Sep 2007 at 16:18

I've got a Q6600 95w, 2x1GB Corsair PC6400 4-4-4-12 Ram and the board in the title plus a Tuniq tower so I'm ready to overclock! Only problem is I'm a bit confused about what settings to change in the Bios, it doesn't seem as obvious as other boards I've used but then I haven't overclocked in a long while.

Where should I start and should I let the board choose the voltages for me with the auto setting?

Camalot · 28 Sep 2007 at 16:20

Monstermunch said:
Clocking
1. Make sure that you have the latest chipset drivers and flash the board to the most recent bios version
2. On the main bios screen press Ctrl+F1 to open the advanced options within the menus
3. In the Advanced Bios Features Menu, Disable all of the following: CPU Enhanced Halt (C1E), CPU Thermal Monitor 2(TM2), CPU EIST Function
4. In the PC Health Status menu, set the FAN Speed Control Method to "Legacy" & FAN Speed Control Mode to "PWM" to maintain highest speed
5. Go into the MB Intelligent Tweaker (MIT) menu at the bottom of the page, set the System voltage control to "Manual"
6. These boards have a default VDIMM of 1.8v, set the VDIMM to co-ordinate with your ram. The Geil I have is specced as 2.1v so I have mine set to +0.3v
7. Set the MCH Voltage to +0.1v
8. Set the FSB Voltage to +0.1v
9. Set the VCORE to 1.45v - Please be aware that this will increase temps!
10. Set the CPU Host Clock Control to "Enable"
11. Set the System Memory Multiplier to "2x"
12. You're set to go, just increase the System bus Frequency to Overclock
13. I would reccommend that you use Intels TAT to monitor temps

Crossfire/Quad Core
You may have noticed that the DS4 & DQ6 boards have 2 x PCI-E x16 slots... Well Gigabyte have now released the updated bios to enable Crossfire and Quad Core compliance for these 2 boards. However the 2nd PCI-E slot maybe 16x physical but is apparently only 4x electronically enabled so it won't be fantastic, but a great free upgrade none the less.... Here:http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/News/Motherboard/News_List.aspx?NewsID=1295

Sirrel Squirrel · 28 Sep 2007 at 19:30

Cheers for that, didn't think to look in the Motherboard section

Got the processor running at 3ghz perfectly now, I kept the core voltage at what it should be though and seems fine

Camalot · 28 Sep 2007 at 19:35

Sirrel Squirrel said:
Cheers for that, didn't think to look in the Motherboard section

Got the processor running at 3ghz perfectly now, I kept the core voltage at what it should be though and seems fine

Same here mate, got 3ghz didn't touch voltage

Glad you got it sorted!