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*** Official Gigabyte P965-DS3 Thread ***

Thanks again.
- buzzuk67
- Post #1,652
- Mar 11, 2007
- Forum: Motherboards
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*** Official Gigabyte P965-DS3 Thread ***

Ok thanks for the tips. After a bit of tweaking i've got the ram at +0.2 (which i'm assuming is now 2.0v) and 4-4-4-12 The cpu at stock voltage and 7x400. With these settings it booted, but only after increasing the ram voltage (as its rated to 2.1v it should be fine). Bottom line is I...
- buzzuk67
- Post #1,650
- Mar 11, 2007
- Forum: Motherboards
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*** Official Gigabyte P965-DS3 Thread ***

Sorry if this has been covered before but 1: How do I access the memory timings in the bios, theres a key combination which ive forgotten? 2: what is a safe voltage for a 6600 C2D (with a basic arctic freezer pro heatsink and fan)? 3: am i right in thinking the stock ram voltage is...
- buzzuk67
- Post #1,647
- Mar 11, 2007
- Forum: Motherboards
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*** Official Gigabyte P965-DS3 Thread ***

Vista's quite the resource hog. I didn't notice any improvement in performance on mine when I installed additional chipset drivers. Device manager seemed to indicate everything was working ok without them. Main driver to install would be for you graphics card, although if you've got nvidia like...
- buzzuk67
- Post #1,437
- Feb 2, 2007
- Forum: Motherboards
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*** Official Gigabyte P965-DS3 Thread ***

As far as safe CPU temperatures go, what is the maximum you guys would suggest. Intel spec sheet rates the E6600 at about 60.1 degrees, but the bios has settings that allow warnings at 60, 70, 80 etc degrees. At 3ghz (7x428) using TAT, mine idled at the upper 40's then under full load went...
- buzzuk67
- Post #1,384
- Jan 26, 2007
- Forum: Motherboards
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*** Official Gigabyte P965-DS3 Thread ***

Yeah it was a vista thing. Now xp's back up and running cpu-z is returning sensible results.
- buzzuk67
- Post #1,382
- Jan 25, 2007
- Forum: Motherboards
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*** Official Gigabyte P965-DS3 Thread ***

Ok cheers. I dont think cpu-z likes vista, it throws up a driver error as it loads. Strange that vista itself (to the right of the cpu-z screen) also quotes 3.8ghz though. Due to constant crashes whilst playing FearXP and Total War Medieval 2 (looping sound and frozen screen, hard reset...
- buzzuk67
- Post #1,380
- Jan 25, 2007
- Forum: Motherboards
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*** Official Gigabyte P965-DS3 Thread ***

So just to confirm (and avoid meltdown) CPU multiplier is set to 7 CPU host frequency is set to 428 I make that 2996mhz However both windows and cpu-z report 3.8ghz, as if the multiplier is set to 9. Link Which is right?
- buzzuk67
- Post #1,375
- Jan 25, 2007
- Forum: Motherboards
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*** Official Gigabyte P965-DS3 Thread ***

That's right. The orange ones are numbered one to four but theres no jumper settings for master/slave to worry about like with ide drives. All SATA drives are masters. Each connection can be enabled disabled in the bios and boot priority set up, so drives in a non raid setup can be added to any...
- buzzuk67
- Post #1,369
- Jan 24, 2007
- Forum: Motherboards
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*** Official Gigabyte P965-DS3 Thread ***

apologies mcurphy, I hadn't noticed your original reference was to the 's' rather than 'ds' board. My comments refer to the 'ds' board which I have. The reference to SATA 1 and 2 compliant is not the same as raid 0,1,2 etc, SATA 1 and 2 being more to do with data transfer rates. As such I...
- buzzuk67
- Post #1,365
- Jan 24, 2007
- Forum: Motherboards
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*** Official Gigabyte P965-DS3 Thread ***

mcurphy, both sets of SATA connectors support SATA 1 and 2 specifications so are equal in that respect. If carrying out a fresh OS install, the orange intel connectors are going to be the easiest as you shouldn't need a separate driver disc during install to get them up and running. Never had a...
- buzzuk67
- Post #1,360
- Jan 24, 2007
- Forum: Motherboards
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*** Official Gigabyte P965-DS3 Thread ***

After further tinkering i set up CPU multiplier = 7 CPU Frequency = 400 now to my simple mind this would mean the cpu is running at 7x400 = 2800mhz however cpu-z and windows state the cpu is actually running at 3600mhz with these settings. I'd appreciate if someone could explain the...
- buzzuk67
- Post #1,357
- Jan 24, 2007
- Forum: Motherboards
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*** Official Gigabyte P965-DS3 Thread ***

Spring 2188. To create a driver disc, it looks like you would need to copy only the files within either the 'floppy 32' or 'floppy 64' folders from the download, dependant on whether your using a 32 or 64 bit version of xp. Copy the files into the root of the floppy rather than within a...
- buzzuk67
- Post #1,355
- Jan 24, 2007
- Forum: Motherboards
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*** Official Gigabyte P965-DS3 Thread ***

Well with a bit more experimenting i've now got CPU multiplier = x8 CPU host freq = 375 Mem multiplier = 2 Stock voltages and timings. Which I guess means its running at CPU = 3ghz and ram at 750 mhz - awesome (for an overclocking noob)! Booted first time as well. Noticed in the bios...
- buzzuk67
- Post #1,347
- Jan 24, 2007
- Forum: Motherboards
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*** Official Gigabyte P965-DS3 Thread ***

Not sure I follow how 4:5 = 2.50. If the memory multiplier is 2.5, doesn't the ram simply run at 2.5x the CPU host frequency? What does the 4:5 ratio signify? I might be wide of the mark here but to run memory at 800mhz is that not cpu host = 400, with mem multiplier = 2.0 or cpu host =...
- buzzuk67
- Post #1,345
- Jan 23, 2007
- Forum: Motherboards
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*** Official Gigabyte P965-DS3 Thread ***

Ok so far, heres what I did CPU Host Frequency = 333 (what would the E6600 default frequency be)? PCI express frequency = 100 (as suggested in several posts) Memory Multiplier = 2.00 Stock voltages. So with the above, does this mean the ram is running at 2 x 333 = 666. Furthermore to run...
- buzzuk67
- Post #1,343
- Jan 23, 2007
- Forum: Motherboards
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*** Official Gigabyte P965-DS3 Thread ***

Thanks for the response. I've included system spec in my signature, memory is 2 gb corsair xms2 6400 so i guess it runs at 3200 x 2. Have been a PC enthusiast for years but never really got to grips with hardcore cpu and ram overclocking. I'll do some experimenting as per your suggestions and...
- buzzuk67
- Post #1,340
- Jan 23, 2007
- Forum: Motherboards
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*** Official Gigabyte P965-DS3 Thread ***

Hi, interesting thread, just read my way through the last 10 or so pages. Couldn't find a forum hosted by Gigabyte so stumbled on this treasure trove of experience via google. Some advice would be welcome please. What's with the 'CIA 2' overclocking option. My understanding is its an automated...
- buzzuk67
- Post #1,337
- Jan 23, 2007
- Forum: Motherboards

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