Originally posted by: garikfox
DDR3 MEM isnt really available.
Thats why "people" are getting the Updated board. (look below.)
Originally posted by: DasFox
Originally posted by: garikfox
DDR3 MEM isnt really available.
Thats why "people" are getting the Updated board. (look below.)
I'm not talking about the DDR3 board. I said the Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3R, not the Gigabyte GA-P35C-DS3R.
Originally posted by: Serradifalco
I am running 2 gigs of this ram. Because of the 9x multiplier on my e4300 I run it at 668mhz at 4-4-4-12. This ram works great with this board. The nice thing though is that this ram is highly OC'able so it leaves me room for a future upgrade with maybe a lower multiplier cpu.
Originally posted by: bloodugly
Originally posted by: Serradifalco
I am running 2 gigs of this ram. Because of the 9x multiplier on my e4300 I run it at 668mhz at 4-4-4-12. This ram works great with this board. The nice thing though is that this ram is highly OC'able so it leaves me room for a future upgrade with maybe a lower multiplier cpu.
For a second there I thought you had some REALLY fast memory speed going, then I realized you were talking about its effective speed instead of its actual speed I wish I could run a speed around what your RAM is running to get better timings, but my multiplier is 8x so that wouldn't make for a very good CPU speed.
Originally posted by: Serradifalco
Originally posted by: bloodugly
Originally posted by: Serradifalco
I am running 2 gigs of this ram. Because of the 9x multiplier on my e4300 I run it at 668mhz at 4-4-4-12. This ram works great with this board. The nice thing though is that this ram is highly OC'able so it leaves me room for a future upgrade with maybe a lower multiplier cpu.
For a second there I thought you had some REALLY fast memory speed going, then I realized you were talking about its effective speed instead of its actual speed I wish I could run a speed around what your RAM is running to get better timings, but my multiplier is 8x so that wouldn't make for a very good CPU speed.
The ram is rated at an EFFECTIVE speed of 800mhz with 4-4-4-12 timings. I have heard of people OC'ing this ram at these timings as well...somewhere around 440mhz actual.
Originally posted by: DasFox
If you're running a Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3R please tell us what memory you're using, and how it's working.
THANKS
Originally posted by: Daytroxative
<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: DasFox
If you're running a Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3R please tell us what memory you're using, and how it's working.
THANKS</end quote></div>
Hey, i work at a local computer shop. I build a bunch of new systems and have access to parts to make sure it works. A fellow employee purchased this board with a cheap 4300 to tie him over after some system troubles on his old rig. So here's how it went!
-E4300, Oc'd to 3.0 (333), 3.2 was reached pretty easily - we got capped around there.
-Mushkin XP2 6400 with the (i think) 2.4 SPD setting in the bios.
With the system bus speed we could use the memory multiplier to supply stock timings at 4-4-3-10 with amazing stability. We used an Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro.
This was effectively a cheap system, with great RAM hitting 3.0 overclock. We couldn't figure out if the board was able to use the EPP profile or how, we had to set things to manual and force the right multiplier with the perfect bus. Otherwise the system ran on the non performance SPD profile. timings of 5-5-5-15, with automatic adjustments while overclocking. We could sure as hell OC the RAM, but it wasn't very effective, as to keep stable the auto settings were used and timings are raised high to make you dislike it. Manual settings were tiresome as well, we couldn't really get it right. The settings didn't seem to improve stability when you tinker with them, and generally annoying having this board restart on you 3 times in a row, sometimes 5 trying to recover itself.
I'm sure different RAM would be a different experience. We could hit 3.2+ but had a hard time convincing ourselves if it was worth it. The CPU liked 1.425V, we could have brought it much lower and still be fine.