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

[AndyBoySmith]

Hello skinnyj.

You will need to do this as the Gigabyte P965-DS3 does not support EPP :-(


Corsair - "Tested at EPP SPD settings (4-4-4-12) at 2.1V"

Link - http://www.corsairmemory.com/corsair/products/specs/TWIN2X2048-6400C4.pdf

If you dont bump it to 2.1v and leave it at 1.8v then it the MB set at auto will give you timings of 5-5-5-18 which is not what you want. I was very pissed of when I found cpu-z reporting this to me. But adding +0.3v on BIOS will fix everything. If you try forcing 4-4-4-12 with 1.8v then your system will become very unstable.

That's my experiance.

Also I have fixed all my problems now. After a format, my computer loads windows like it should. Stability seems very good. I am going to run dual prime for 12 hours this time. If it passes that with no errors, then I will be happy.

 

[TheSlamma]

Is the lack of EPP support because of the 965? or just Gigabyte needs to get that rollin?

 

[skinnyj]

andy - good info i didnt realize that they tested it at 2.1 no biggie, i just ordered the c4 as price came down a lil bit on newegg with there instant 20 off putting it right over 300. so officially i have

thermaltake big typhoon
corsair 520 psu
corsair 2x1gb 6400c4
evga 7900gs
c2d e6400
and case/fans/dvdburner etc so now im just waiting to order the

mobo still deciding between ds3, or p5b vanilla. choices choices, i want to order the stuff tonight so it will be there by the time i get back from iraq in 1 week

 

[cloudymode]

Hey guys, I want to apply some Arctic Silver 5 to my northbridge. I'm just curious, do I have to take out my motherboard in order to remove the northbridge? It has these two pins with springs around it and i'm not sure what to do in order to get it out.

 

[HamidFULL]

hi guys
I lost my DS3 Driver CD and I need all latest DS3 drivers
can someone help me

 

[mealsonwheels]

Im liking my DS3 so far, its been pretty stable...

Core 2 Duo E6300 @ 437x7 100% stable and climbing, hoping for 3.8ghz+
Thermalright XP-90C
GIGABYTE GA-965P-DS3
G.Skill F2-6400PHU2-2GBHZ
eVGA Geforce 7800GT
Sound Blaster Audigy II
Antec Truepower 550
Samsung 940B

 

[imported_Stin]

New network device drivers were released for the DS3 today:

Download Here

 

[donnyjepp]

Originally posted by: $pade
anyone else experience this problem with their ds3?

When I overclock the fsb to lets say 400 mhz, and then reboot or just turn off the pc and then turn it on, the computer will attemp to boot (fans turn on, but no display) and then turn off again. It will either do this for an indefinte time or will actually manage to boot after the 2 and 3rd attemp. Usually, when it manages to boot, it will reset the overclocked settings. Note this happens randomly. In some cases I change FSB to 400 and reboot without any problem.

Here is the strange thing. At 400 fsb it often manages to boot and load into windows. Once I am in windows i can run dual prime for hours and everything seems pretty stable.

What is the issue here?

I think the motherboard resets to your default FSB if it is unable to successfully post at a higher clock speed. Saves you the trouble of resetting the CMOS. Sounds like your rig is able to POST ok sometimes at 400, but sometimes fails.

Originally posted by: TheSlamma
Is the lack of EPP support because of the 965? or just Gigabyte needs to get that rollin?

I could be wrong here but if you can get your Corsair RAM to work at 4-4-4-12 that is functionally the same as if your board had EPP and detected it like that.

Originally posted by: cloudymode
Hey guys, I want to apply some Arctic Silver 5 to my northbridge. I'm just curious, do I have to take out my motherboard in order to remove the northbridge? It has these two pins with springs around it and i'm not sure what to do in order to get it out.

To answer your question, yes you pretty much have to take the board out to get at the back of the pins. I don't know if AS is going to provide a better contact than the stuff that it came wiht, it is a pretty solid bonding material, and it is really tough to clean off of the existing heatsink and the chip itself. I wouldn't bother unless you're going to add a replacement heatsink like a Jing Ting.

 

[Ausm]

Anyone else having some video problems after flashing to the F5 BIOS? Ever so often my video will stutter in games.

 

[saymyname]

Originally posted by: Ausm
Anyone else having some video problems after flashing to the F5 BIOS? Ever so often my video will stutter in games.

Still got the 2GB in there? I had to take a stick out and it stutters now.

 

[skinnyj]

i heard about someone running an f6a bios beta im assuming but anyone trying it?

 

[SniperWulf]

The F6b bios was great for me until it started dropping my X-fi

 

[TheSlamma]

Well I got mine in yesterday

DS3 with the rev C2 chipset F5 BIOS
2gb os the Corsair 6400
evga 7900gs
E6600 B2

System came right up without any problems.

One issue I noticed though is the BIOS is reporting my CPU at 50C idle with a fan speed of 1000, Speedfan says my fan is at about 3200 and my temp at 44... the temp never changes though no matter how much load... played a game for 1 hour last night and temp was still 44. Guess I just have a lame sensor on this one?

 

[Ausm]

Originally posted by: saymyname

Originally posted by: Ausm
Anyone else having some video problems after flashing to the F5 BIOS? Ever so often my video will stutter in games.

Still got the 2GB in there? I had to take a stick out and it stutters now.

Yeah still have the two sticks in there. I did read on the net that some games especially WOW has known to stutter on Dual core CPU's due lack of coding suport.

Ausm

 

[skinnyj]

where did you buy yours from, just curious cuz i order mine eysterday from newegg wondering if it shipped with f5 hopefully

 

[imported_Stin]

Where are you guys getting the F6B bios, and what is it supposed to fix?

 

[tran1981]

TheSlamma, where did u get ur mobo?

 

[TheSlamma]

I got DS3 at ZZF

I also fixed my temp problem.. went and got the Arctic Freezer pro 7 (mostly cause of Baked's posts about it).. now my temp is 31C at idle instead of the 44C. load is 42C so I'm happy with that.

I did reseat that Intel fan 3 times and know what I'm doing with the paste... it just would not get better then the 44C. Maybe the fan was just defecto.

 

[tran1981]

How can u tell if DS3 is C2?

 

[pygo]

Looking for a Gigabyte G965-DS3 can anyone confirm that this OC's as well as the P965-DS3? I don't plan on picking up a vid card until DX10 ones are available.

Thanks

 

[Tates]

Bios F6 Official

Version F6
Date 2006/09/20
Description Enhance Conroe E6300/E6400 overclock capability

 

[imported_PoorBoy]

One issue I noticed though is the BIOS is reporting my CPU at 50C idle with a fan speed of 1000
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I slapped a DQ6 Motherboard & E6600 in a system yesterday and I get the same thing with the BIOS saying only about 1000 RPM. Core Temp Utility reads about 54c @ Idle but the BIOS says 42c. Which to me is still to warm for Idle Temps, but I'm only using the stock cooler right now until I can get the new version VX Typhoon to put on it & it's slightly overclocked to 2.628Ghz. So I guess the temps would be a little high.

I'm not really sure if I plugged the Fan into the proper place on the Motherboard though, I'm used to plugging fans in the Motherboard just above and a little to the right of the CPU. But with the DQ6 I ended up plugging it in a little below and to the left of the CPU & Plugged the lead from the PSU where I normally plug the Fan in. Is that the proper place to plug the Fan in, below the CPU or not ... ???

Another question, how the heck do I get to the Memory clock settings on this board, according to CPUz their way out of whack right now but I haven't been able to access the Clock reading yet. CPUz says their @ 5-6-6-20 when they should be at 4-4-4-12 ...

Another strange thing is if I try to start up Wcpuid the Computer will kick out and re-boot itself. It's done that 3 times on me now. I deleted the Wcpuid Icon so I wouldn't try that again ...

 

[AdamK47]

I updated to the F6 BIOS this morning. Upon rebooting, Windows redetected my Sound Blaster X-Fi card. This most likely fixes the compatibility issues with Audigy and X-Fi cards.

 

[River Side]

ok I realized why I needed to update the bios.. the board won't overclock even a single MHz.. Had to do something with the 7600GT compatibility issue that Gigabyte fixed in a later bios.. the @Bios utility is a lifesaver.. wonderful things have happened since the last time i built a PC.. I have no floppy so I was very pleased with it. Updated to F5 and Bam!! first try simple overclock at 333MHz FSB.. all stock and temps even dropped!! looks ot be an issue F5 fixed with how the board reads the temperatures.. I'm now hovering around 40, where previously they were high 50's!!

I need to work on the JMIcron SATA controller now.. Hooked up to Intel but I realize I may not be using NCQ and AHCI support.. so i'll try moving my WD 250 to the JMicron chip today.. I turned on AHCI yesterday and my IDE DVD ROM now flashes in bright green at post but does show up and work fine!

I'm also thinking of trying to undervolt the CPU now.. while overclocked!!!

 

[saymyname]

I have a weird issue. The PC was giving me grief by crashing during games, HARD. It was also freezing up on boot at the memory check (to the best of my knowledge) so I ran memtest and figured that one stick of memory was bad. Now I'm running with the other stick and after 8 hours of memtest it had no errors but it has frozen up at the memory check twice. No game crashes anymore though. It will lock up and say 104 and that's it instead of the full 1048576 number and then moving on to identify the hard drives.

Would flashing the bios maybe help? I'm using F3.

E6400
DS3
Sapphire x1900xt
Enermax 535W
Patriot 2GB PC2-5300