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

[Rapishorrid]

Hi all I am ordering parts for my new system right now.
It will be:

Gigabyte P965-DS3 rev 3.3
2gb OCZ Platinum rev 2.0 (PC2 6400)
Intel E4300
eVGA 8800GTS 320mb
Corsair HX520watt PSU

and a Freezer 7 Pro + Enermax Chakra case to keep it cool.

Obviously I'll be overclocking

My question is, what problems or difficulties can I expect with this? The only thing I can think of off the top of my head is that I will have to adjust the default voltage of the ram from the DS3's 1.8v to the 2.1v advertised for my ram (in order to get it to run at advertised timings).

Question about the ram voltage: I read somewhere that if your ram requires say 2.1v for example, then obviously you have to change from the DS3's default 1.8v. It said that because of this, when you clear the CMOS (overclocking or whatever) you will have to put in some old or other sticks in order to boot, change the voltage to 2.1v and be able to boot with your original ram. Shouldn't one at least be able to get into the BIOS, even after a CMOS clear, with the default 1.8v in order to change to 2.1v?

I've been reading through this thread and I am getting the impression that when I put everything together for this comp it's not even going to boot up! Anyway, just looking for some advice while I wait for this stuff to arrive.

 

[dragojlo2]

Did replacing the ide devices solve the issue with the post?

 

[hjalten5]

Originally posted by: 1ManArmY

Originally posted by: hjalten5
I tried disabling and unplugging my DVD-burner (IDE), but still no luck. Only in Windows in can OC using Easytune. Currently running my 6300@2400MHz, which is fine, but it will not finish POST when I use the same settings in the BIOS.

Freakin' crap Rev. 3.3! Argh!:|

Did you try removing the easytune bloatware prior to OC'ing in the BIO's?

Does it have any influence? How? And how do I completely remove it?

 

[imported_hubs99]

Would anyone care to explain the advantages of the 965P-DS3 verses the N650SLI-DS4 ?

I"m split as to which board to buy. the DS4 has 1394 but questionable OC. Any other opinions?

 

[kokal]

Originally posted by: 1ManArmY

Originally posted by: 1ManArmY
I am having trouble holding my over clock. I had been using 8 X 388 for a 3.1 but the CPU host frequency keeps defaulting back to disabled thus causing my system to run at 8 X 266 = 2.1 (E6400). I am now using a 9 X 345 = 3.1 so if I restart or shut down it will at least run at stock 2.4. I have the voltage set to auto (optimized) so it increases from 1.375 to 1.40 when both of the stated over clocks above are in effect. Any ideas????????

I get into the Motherboard Intelligent Tweaker to enable the CPU host frequency which allows me to increase decrease my FSB but for some reason after I make my selections and save it reverts back to default settings. When the system is booting up it shows 345 X 9 initially then it shows 266 X 9. Sometimes the oc will hold and I can benchmark it but if I restart my system after virus updates or msconfig changes it will lose the oc but the values are still there just not enabled under the MIT -à CPU host freq (disabled). How do you take a screen shot of your bios?
If my settings are being reset, is either a battery issue or there are some Intel ?automatic? crap features on for bringing the CPU back down to the speeds it think it should be at? How do you turn them off?

Ok this is starting to piss me off, this board will not hold any OC after a shutdown or restart period. I was running my E6600 @ 3.060 (9 X 340) 4-4-4-12 core temp 36 39 idle
core temp 52 53 load CPU Vcore 1.375
DDR2 = 2.1, PCI-E = 102, Mem mult = 2, +0.1v to MCH,FSB, PCI-E
I ran orthos with these settings for 8 hours the highest the temps got with full load was 54,
should be stable right? After trying to devise a strategy to acheive a 3.2 OC after I come home boot up the system and it's back at default 9 X 266, what gives? All of the CPU throttling functions were disabled even during the first encounter

any suggestions on a new board??

The problem you are facing is BIOS related. The F10 BIOS has this problem. I made a system for a friend with GA-965P-DS3 rev.3.3 and also my collegue bought the same. We were OCing at the same time and both boards didn't hold OC when shutdown. Both were running stable for more than 10 hours - but if PC was shut I had to go in bios to enable again OC, save settings, restart the PC and then it would work. The problem was related to PCI-E Frequency - during restarts it had no problems set to AUTO/99/100/101/102/103/104/105 but when shut down and powered up again the PCI-E had problems settings its Freq. So Gigabyte released the F11 BIOS which fixed this problem but another came out - Limited FSB OC. Now we have problems reaching the FSB we had reached with F10. My collegue had reached 384 FSB on 4300 with F10 and now has 365 with F11. He is reverting to F10 for speed but will have to set his OC at every power up. Hopefully Gigabyte will release F12 and fix it all.

 

[1ManArmY]

alright this is pissing me off now, I can't even get this DS3 board to keep the CPU host control enabled even with the FSB at 266. It always reverts back to disabled. I have checked all of the settings recommended from the HardForum OC guide for the DS3 and everything checks out. The only thing out of the ordinary was the CPU Fan warning, I enabled it and upon start up it went off. My temps are fine 36, 39 idle so I went back into the bios and disabled it because it was annoying just as this issue I am having with this board.

next plan is to upgrade to F11 disable IDE controller if that doesn't work --time to look for a new board.

 

[1ManArmY]

Originally posted by: kokal

Originally posted by: 1ManArmY

Originally posted by: 1ManArmY
I am having trouble holding my over clock. I had been using 8 X 388 for a 3.1 but the CPU host frequency keeps defaulting back to disabled thus causing my system to run at 8 X 266 = 2.1 (E6400). I am now using a 9 X 345 = 3.1 so if I restart or shut down it will at least run at stock 2.4. I have the voltage set to auto (optimized) so it increases from 1.375 to 1.40 when both of the stated over clocks above are in effect. Any ideas????????

I get into the Motherboard Intelligent Tweaker to enable the CPU host frequency which allows me to increase decrease my FSB but for some reason after I make my selections and save it reverts back to default settings. When the system is booting up it shows 345 X 9 initially then it shows 266 X 9. Sometimes the oc will hold and I can benchmark it but if I restart my system after virus updates or msconfig changes it will lose the oc but the values are still there just not enabled under the MIT -à CPU host freq (disabled). How do you take a screen shot of your bios?
If my settings are being reset, is either a battery issue or there are some Intel ?automatic? crap features on for bringing the CPU back down to the speeds it think it should be at? How do you turn them off?

Ok this is starting to piss me off, this board will not hold any OC after a shutdown or restart period. I was running my E6600 @ 3.060 (9 X 340) 4-4-4-12 core temp 36 39 idle
core temp 52 53 load CPU Vcore 1.375
DDR2 = 2.1, PCI-E = 102, Mem mult = 2, +0.1v to MCH,FSB, PCI-E
I ran orthos with these settings for 8 hours the highest the temps got with full load was 54,
should be stable right? After trying to devise a strategy to acheive a 3.2 OC after I come home boot up the system and it's back at default 9 X 266, what gives? All of the CPU throttling functions were disabled even during the first encounter

any suggestions on a new board??

The problem you are facing is BIOS related. The F10 BIOS has this problem. I made a system for a friend with GA-965P-DS3 rev.3.3 and also my collegue bought the same. We were OCing at the same time and both boards didn't hold OC when shutdown. Both were running stable for more than 10 hours - but if PC was shut I had to go in bios to enable again OC, save settings, restart the PC and then it would work. The problem was related to PCI-E Frequency - during restarts it had no problems set to AUTO/99/100/101/102/103/104/105 but when shut down and powered up again the PCI-E had problems settings its Freq. So Gigabyte released the F11 BIOS which fixed this problem but another came out - Limited FSB OC. Now we have problems reaching the FSB we had reached with F10. My collegue had reached 384 FSB on 4300 with F10 and now has 365 with F11. He is reverting to F10 for speed but will have to set his OC at every power up. Hopefully Gigabyte will release F12 and fix it all.

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Well at this point it doesn't matter if its a restart or shutdown the board reverts back to stock speeds and the CPU host control is disabled, PCI-E back to auto and thats even with the FSB set to 266. I had tried lowering the multi to 8 X 333 just to see if I could get it to 2.6 but it underclocks to 2.1 (8 X 266) after values are saved to the bios and it attempts to boot with them. It powers down, makes a beep then I know it didn't take and back to stock or less than stock depending on the multiplier.

 

[hjalten5]

1manArmy: I have exactly the same problem. F11b didn't fix it for me... I haven't tried unplugging IDE devices (is it ok to just disable them in the BIOS?)

 

[1ManArmY]

Originally posted by: hjalten5
1manArmy: I have exactly the same problem. F11b didn't fix it for me... I haven't tried unplugging IDE devices (is it ok to just disable them in the BIOS?)

what did bios version F11b fix? I only thought that there was an F11 that fixed the PCI-E problem.

I will start to troubleshoot the problem tonight, I plan on disabling the Jmicron IDE controller and disconnecting my 120 Gig HD and Lite-on CD-burner to see if the IDE devices make a difference. I probably will end up removing them and placing them in my secondary rig.
I might even go to bios F7.

 

[vailr]

Re: DS3 bios versions: F11b (& F11a) were beta versions.
F11 is the final release version, which runs fine on my DS3 v.1 board.
E6400 CPU @ 3200 MHz (8x 400MHz).

 

[hjalten5]

I will be awaiting your results! Don't hesitate to write here Happy troubleshooting

 

[aussieburger]

Originally posted by: 1ManArmY
alright this is pissing me off now, I can't even get this DS3 board to keep the CPU host control enabled even with the FSB at 266. It always reverts back to disabled. I have checked all of the settings recommended from the HardForum OC guide for the DS3 and everything checks out. The only thing out of the ordinary was the CPU Fan warning, I enabled it and upon start up it went off. My temps are fine 36, 39 idle so I went back into the bios and disabled it because it was annoying just as this issue I am having with this board.

next plan is to upgrade to F11 disable IDE controller if that doesn't work --time to look for a new board.

I noticed the same problem this morning when I booted up. I had:
E6300 @ 430*7 = 3.0
Vcore 3.750
pci-e = 104 (+1 step v)

Upon turning the pc on fsb and cpu host control were reset as described above.

Anyone got some ideas ? Could it really be related to ide devices ?? I have recently added an old ide hdd ...

Oh I'm running the DS3P F5 bios (which is the same as the F11 bios for the DS3) - pci-e fix. Which by the way didn't really work for me ! When I had
430*7
& pci-e = 100
pci-e link width was only x2 !! I had to increase the pci-e fsb to get it 16x speed again :lol: I thought this "Fix PCI-E overclock issue" was meant to fix that ?? It did fix it at 400*7 I can now set pci-e @ 100 and get x16 but not at higher oc's.

 

[gorobei]

Originally posted by: 1ManArmY
____________________________________________________________________________
Ok this is starting to piss me off, this board will not hold any OC after a shutdown or restart period. I was running my E6600 @ 3.060 (9 X 340) 4-4-4-12 core temp 36 39 idle
core temp 52 53 load CPU Vcore 1.375
DDR2 = 2.1, PCI-E = 102, Mem mult = 2, +0.1v to MCH,FSB, PCI-E
I ran orthos with these settings for 8 hours the highest the temps got with full load was 54,
should be stable right? After trying to devise a strategy to acheive a 3.2 OC after I come home boot up the system and it's back at default 9 X 266, what gives? All of the CPU throttling functions were disabled even during the first encounter

any suggestions on a new board??

AND
Well at this point it doesn't matter if its a restart or shutdown the board reverts back to stock speeds and the CPU host control is disabled, PCI-E back to auto and thats even with the FSB set to 266. I had tried lowering the multi to 8 X 333 just to see if I could get it to 2.6 but it underclocks to 2.1 (8 X 266) after values are saved to the bios and it attempts to boot with them. It powers down, makes a beep then I know it didn't take and back to stock or less than stock depending on the multiplier.
______________________________________________________________________


my settings [f10 bios]

C1E: off
TM2: off
EIST: off
CIA2: off
CPUmult: 9
FSB 333
mem multiplier 2
dram time select [SPD]: manual
cpu voltage 1.41 (+.1v over normal)

make sure you uninstall or don't install EASYTUNE, I had some problems with it overwriting bios settings. (I think it has its own file for storing overclocks and reads it off the harddrive at bootup and writes the values back into the bios thus canceling your overclock.)

 

[five4o]

Anyone knows what are the normal voltages for NB, DDR2, PCI-E, FSB, and MCH?
Just curios this MoBo doesn't tell you the normal voltage it just tells you how you've added.

Thanks in advance.

Tried search but I got 0 hits

 

[1ManArmY]

Originally posted by: gorobei
Originally posted by: 1ManArmY
____________________________________________________________________________
Ok this is starting to piss me off, this board will not hold any OC after a shutdown or restart period. I was running my E6600 @ 3.060 (9 X 340) 4-4-4-12 core temp 36 39 idle
core temp 52 53 load CPU Vcore 1.375
DDR2 = 2.1, PCI-E = 102, Mem mult = 2, +0.1v to MCH,FSB, PCI-E
I ran orthos with these settings for 8 hours the highest the temps got with full load was 54,
should be stable right? After trying to devise a strategy to acheive a 3.2 OC after I come home boot up the system and it's back at default 9 X 266, what gives? All of the CPU throttling functions were disabled even during the first encounter

any suggestions on a new board??

AND
Well at this point it doesn't matter if its a restart or shutdown the board reverts back to stock speeds and the CPU host control is disabled, PCI-E back to auto and thats even with the FSB set to 266. I had tried lowering the multi to 8 X 333 just to see if I could get it to 2.6 but it underclocks to 2.1 (8 X 266) after values are saved to the bios and it attempts to boot with them. It powers down, makes a beep then I know it didn't take and back to stock or less than stock depending on the multiplier.
______________________________________________________________________


my settings [f10 bios]

C1E: off
TM2: off
EIST: off
CIA2: off
CPUmult: 9
FSB 333
mem multiplier 2
dram time select [SPD]: manual
cpu voltage 1.41 (+.1v over normal)

make sure you uninstall or don't install EASYTUNE, I had some problems with it overwriting bios settings. (I think it has its own file for storing overclocks and reads it off the harddrive at bootup and writes the values back into the bios thus canceling your overclock.)

Check, check and double check. Well I was finally able to locate the problem to the board.
I ran memtest for 8 hours-check
PSU-check
disconnected IDE devices 120 HD and CD burner
Flash to F11 bios
last and not least replaced the battery from the MOBO with my 4 year old battery from my ASUS board and walllllah- 9 X 320 OC (mild 2.8) held for 6 hours. I performed repeated shutdowns and restarts over this time period and I even disconnected the power cord for 15 minutes and the OC still held until my final shutdown for the night. I decided I couldn't wait until the next morning to see if the OC still held so I powered back up from a complete shutdown and poof the OC was gone.
I'm done with this board, any recommendations on a new board, looking at ASUS so far any suggestions????
just looking to OC 3.0 to 3.2.

 

[hjalten5]

So the battery helped for a while, but now it's back or what?

I'm also considering sending this board back and getting another. Just don't know which one

 

[C4VTS]

I have a similar problem with my GA-965P-DS3 and E6600 2x1GB Patriot RAM 667.

Everytime I change the FSB to a manual setting, the BIOS reverts back to auto FSB after rebooting itself. This happens even if the FSB is set to the correct 266FSB in manual mode.

I did once have the E6600 overclock to 320FSB, but that only lasted a short time, and has been resetting on boot up back to auto FSB everytime now.

Any ideas?

 

[hjalten5]

It seems we have the same problem as 1manarmy

do you have Nvidia or ATI

do you have easytune5 installed?

 

[C4VTS]

Hi,

I have Nvidia 7300GT DDR3

Do not currently have easytune 5 installed as just installed Vista

 

[macpeteo]

Hi everyone, I have finaly got my DS3 rev3.3 up and running butttttt

I'm have audio problems, I installed the audio drivers off of the Gigabyte website but I dont have any application!

And if I try to use a audio CD in my SATA drive it says:application xyz detected a problem with your audio configuration Audio/Video playback may not operate properly"

So, what is going on, anyone have any ideas.

I originally loaded this system to one drive and installed the audio drivers and I got the application and I was able to play thru my head set (did not have speakers hooked up at the time), then I reloaded using RAID 1 (got my defective 2nd drive replace by Newegg) and I don't have the audio application and I have messages saying something is wrong (but the audio driver loads fine).

What did I miss or what am I missing? Hope my audio chip didn't fry


Thanks,
Macpeteo

 

[1ManArmY]

Originally posted by: hjalten5
So the battery helped for a while, but now it's back or what?

I'm also considering sending this board back and getting another. Just don't know which one

The board is draining the batteries. I've tried 2 batteries the one that came with the board lasted for 4 days and the second one I put in on Tuesday allowed the OC to last for 6 hours.

running at stock, searching for a new board any suggestions?

 

[hjalten5]

But if the battery is drained, then it shouldn't be able to hold ANY settings at all, am I right? Which means that e.g. boot order would be reset every bootup

 

[C4VTS]

If the battery is dead then the real time clock will always reset to default time.

It would be unusual, as the batteries should last at least 2 years.

 

[macpeteo]

Help!!!! Just installed everything (WinXP Pro) and all the drivers but I have no audio and my cntrl panel "Sounds and Audio" has "No Audio" in it, what is going on, is my audio chip bad, is there a way to test it.

All applications that use audio come back with error "xyz has detected a problem with your audio configuration. Audio/Video playback may not operate properly"

NO audio in headphones front or back, my speakers are hooked up to the rear "output" jack.

Also, I don't have an application in my startup (I guess "Audio and Sounds" is saying that there is none.

What is wrong, anyone else run into this?


Thanks,
Macpeteo

 

[C4VTS]

Did you look in Control Panel>System>Device Manager, to see if the drivers installed properly?