Gigabyte P35 Motherboard Thread

[Beh]

Hello,

I started a thread a few days ago but didn't know this thread was around so I'll ask here as well.

The motherboard I am currently using is broken (permanently corrupted bios) and Asus is taking forever to fix it. So I just decided to buy a new one and when I eventually get the one back from Asus I'll just keep it around as a spare or sell it.

I'm looking at getting a Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L

Now I was wondering does anyone here know if this motherboard is compatible with Patriot RAM? I have 2 sets of model number PDC22G6400LLK rated for 4-4-4-12 at 2.2V operation. Basically, can the board do 2.2V safely and reliably? Also, does anyone know if newegg is stocking the new revision 2.0? Any other things to watch out for?

 

[Conjugal Visit]

Originally posted by: Beh

I'm looking at getting a Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L

Now I was wondering does anyone here know if this motherboard is compatible with Patriot RAM? I have 2 sets of model number PDC22G6400LLK rated for 4-4-4-12 at 2.2V operation. Basically, can the board do 2.2V safely and reliably? Also, does anyone know if newegg is stocking the new revision 2.0? Any other things to watch out for?

Recent Newegg reviewers seem to indicate the board shipping now is rev 2.0 - you can read them there yourself.

As for the Patriot:

http://www.gigabyte.us/Product...ew.aspx?ProductID=2560

There's the current tested memory compatibility sheet. Not on there. Doesn't mean it won't work just fine, but it doesn't, man you might be in for a hassle.

 

[Garfield3d]

For those of you with the P35-DS3R, what BIOS have you guys been using? My motherboard shipped with the F4 BIOS. I tried the F7d and the F7 BIOSes through @BIOS, but my computer became extremely unstable. The computer would randomly reboot itself and sometimes it couldn't even make it into Windows Vista. I backed down to the F6 BIOS and things seem to be running pretty good so far.

One particularly unusual thing for me is that I haven't been able to update through Q-Flash yet. It always tells me to check the BIOS ID, as if I had the wrong BIOS/motherboard combo. The very same files work fine through @BIOS.

--Garfield3d

 

[jaded25]

Quick question for you guys. I just received my P35-DS3P motherboard yesterday (rest of the specs are in my sig) and set everything up. I left everything at stock last night and everything was working great. Now I'm starting to play around a bit with oc my e6600. Right now I have 1.28v for the cpu and have the fsb at 360x9 (3.24 overclock). Everything is rock stable at this point but my question is how can I change the memory timings in the bios because I didn't see any options anywhere to change them. Also how can I check how much voltage I'm giving the memory because it doesn't display it anywhere and the bios only gives options such as +0.05, +0.10 and I have no idea how much voltage I'm feeding the memory so I just put it at +0.10. Other than those things I haven't had any crashes or stability problems yet and I'm glad I went with this board after seeing everyone have success stories with gigabyte motherboards.

 

[mrfatboy]

press "ctrl + f1" in bios main menu. This will open more options in the M.I.T menu.


I think this is the 1000th time I answered this quesion :laugh:

 

[jaded25]

:laugh: I guess I should have looked harder

 

[buddhatb]

Does anyone know if Gigabyte's site has a support forum? I've been looking around their site and wasn't able to find anything.

 

[mrfatboy]

Originally posted by: buddhatb
Does anyone know if Gigabyte's site has a support forum? I've been looking around their site and wasn't able to find anything.

Don't make be laugh :laugh:

 

[desolate]

I'm sorry if this is a retarded question but I have a Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3R (rev 1.0) motherboard and I was wondering what happened to the rev 1.0 on Gigabyte's website? I can't find the rev 1.0 page with all the BIOS and driver downloads, only seeing the rev 2.0 now. Thanks

 

[buddhatb]

Originally posted by: desolate
I'm sorry if this is a retarded question but I have a Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3R (rev 1.0) motherboard and I was wondering what happened to the rev 1.0 on Gigabyte's website? I can't find the rev 1.0 page with all the BIOS and driver downloads, only seeing the rev 2.0 now. Thanks

You need to check Gigabyte's global site.
http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Pro...ew.aspx?ProductID=2543

 

[zorrt]

I have a DS3P and the southbridge gets pretty hot to touch with the stock heatsink. My case temps are 48 degrees and I believe that sensor is right next to the southbridge so I assume my southbridge is somewhere close to that temp too. Do you guys recommend me get an aftermarket heatsink for it or is it safe to leave it like that? I was thinking along the lines of Zalman NB47J or the Zalman NBF47 (but thats double the price and might not fit).

I don't have an aftermarket cooler on my videocard that blows air around that area which is the reason for the high temps.

 

[AAjax]

New F8 bios up for GA-P35-DS3R owners

 

[ViRGE]

Originally posted by: AAjax
New F8 bios up for GA-P35-DS3R owners

Speaking of a new BIOS, the Penryn chips are using half-multipliers. As it ships the Gigabyte P35 boards don't support half-multipliers, but to support the Penryn chips they would need to add support in a BIOS upgrade to pull that off. So that said, does anyone know if the latest BIOS release(s) allow those of us with other Core2 chips to set half-multipliers on our chips? (I would love to run 400*7.5)

 

[Conjugal Visit]

@Virge - I loaded the Penryn update for the GA-P35C-DS3R - F7 bios - and I didn't notice a half-multiplier option in the timings section, no. Running a Core 2 Duo here.

Regards,

 

[flashvoyager]

Hey everyone...

I have compability issues with Creative x-fi xtreme music with my gigabyte p35-ds3, once i disable my x-fi, system is rock solid stable....

I noticed that some of you guys having other model of x-fi series and as well other model of p35 series from gigabyte. Anyone having solutions or some experience to share?

this is my first post.. so.. hello everyone.. nice to meet you guys!!

 

[ViRGE]

I'm running the same soundcard on a P35-DS3R without an issue.

 

[AAjax]

Originally posted by: AAjax
New F8 bios up for GA-P35-DS3R owners

F9 Bios now avalible

 

[patsun123]

quick question, just got the p35-ds3p board. the system is stable and runs fine. the only quirk is that on every reboot, it emits a low beep that lasts just a split second longer than the normal on post beep. any idea what this is and what it means?

 

[tracerit]

I have a DS3L and lately during POST, it would take 2-3 minutes to do the Memory Test. I thought it was my RAM, but I tried a single stick of 1GB RAM from another computer and it's the same problem. Has this happened to anyone else? It's my new system too Everything else works and is stable, but that long boot up is ugh...

 

[Livin]

I just built my PC with the P35-DS3R mobo... love it with one exception...

When I load 4x1GB of identical (OCX Gold PC2-6400, pn: OCZ2G800R21G) the system will Hard Lock up after an hour or so. When I remove 2GB it is perfect. Then RAM itself seems to make no difference since I have swapped the sets and they both act the same... this leads me to believe there is an issue with the mobo, maybe BIOS or compatibility.

I ran Memtest x86 on it and it was perfect.

Has anyone seen this or something simular?

 

[mrfatboy]

try upping the (G)mch to +.1v and see what that does. It may need the extra juice for 4 gigs.

 

[RS8]

I've got a quick question regarding the audio outputs...

Mobo: P35-DS3L
receiver model: Marantz SR6200 (DIG 1/2 - IN, DIG OUT OPT)

Lately I've been using my PC as a HTPC and I'm curious about the audio outputs to a receiver.

Can I use this (optical) http://www.monoprice.com/produ...id=2764&seq=1&format=2 or do I need one of these (spdif) http://www.monoprice.com/produ..._id=619&seq=1&format=2

I'm assuming that I can hook up either one to the digital output in the back?

 

[Idontcare]

Originally posted by: RS8
I've got a quick question regarding the audio outputs...

Mobo: P35-DS3L
receiver model: Marantz SR6200 (DIG 1/2 - IN, DIG OUT OPT)

Lately I've been using my PC as a HTPC and I'm curious about the audio outputs to a receiver.

Can I use this (optical) http://www.monoprice.com/produ...id=2764&seq=1&format=2 or do I need one of these (spdif) http://www.monoprice.com/produ..._id=619&seq=1&format=2

I'm assuming that I can hook up either one to the digital output in the back?

DS3L has both optical out and SPDIF out on the mobo back panel (accesible external to case, by the speaker jacks). I am looking at the optical jack right now as I type this.

 

[RS8]

IDC, thanks for the help!

 

[tigersty1e]

Can someone tell the average maximium FSB on the DS3L board?

Sorry if it's been mentioned, but I really don't want to pour through 15 pages of threads if somebody already has this info.


I want to OC the crap out of my processor and can hit 450 fsb. At 460, my stress test fails.