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

[dnottis]

"Hearing a 6300 user talk about dumping his Gigabyte motherboard for another is absurd. I'm getting 3.2Ghz without doing anything but running the ram at default 800Mhz. Why would anybody want to get another board if forum members and professional reviews say great things about the DS3? I can understand adding a new graphics card and better ram, but why the board?"


Well because I bought the DS3 to test it and play with. I've had an Asus P5B-E and just wanted a new toy - anyways, the Asus P5B-E gave me the same overclock without the hassle... and thats why one might replace a motherboard for another. I dunno, I'm not a patient person and I get easily annoyed with hardware that doesn't work properly. I feel that hardware that doesn't work properly should be replaced.

 

[slimsizedwallet]

I'm planning to overclock my E6300 with DS3 to 7x333=2331, I'm wondering do I need to increase the vcore or is the default good enough?

 

[ThePiston]

Did I just hit 4Ghz? Someone tell me what's going on here. I had my multiplier set to 7, put bus up to 450 and ram was a 2X (900). I was truggling on 8X355 but now I booted up fine and it says I'm at 4050Mhz running at 37C idle on stock cooling - that can't be right...

ETC screenshot
Sandra screenshot

 

[Hans Gruber]

Piston,
Better get a new calculator, you're at 3150Mhz. Try downloading CPU-Z and you can forget about the calculator.

 

[ThePiston]

Originally posted by: Hans Gruber
Piston,
Better get a new calculator, you're at 3150Mhz. Try downloading CPU-Z and you can forget about the calculator.

why do both my tools says 4050Ghz?

 

[Hans Gruber]

I have to get out from my wheelchair to respond to Yiranhu's 9 commandments. First the ThermalRight 120 ultra has spring loaded screws. If you tighten the screws too much or even significantly, the torque of the screws on the motherboard interferes with some transisitors in the motherboard. I had to hand tighten each screw to make certain that my computer would boot. Some of the screws are barely attached.

Mercedes Benz have been the least reliable car according to JD Power and associates for at least 2 years running. According to non porfit magazine Consumer Reports the almost every single Mercedes has the lowest reliabilty rating consumer reports give. Do yourself a favor and research, Yiranhu. Mercedes sell particularly well among doctors lawyers and successful jewish men. People who buy a Mercedes do so for image alone. BMW is far superior in reliabilty and the BMW 3 series has been a Car & Driver 10 best every year since 1992. Mercedes never makes the list. If you can afford to buy a Benz you most likely have a deep wallet. In fact Germany builds the most beautiful cars in the world. Euro executives take frequent trips to Japan to learn how Toyota and Honda can build reliable cars. Poor reliability is really a European problem. Europe is worse than America and that is truly pathetic. I drive Japanese cars so I can afford the extra $40 for a better overclocking chip. I didn't say it, the Anandtech writers said this in their reviews of the DS3.

Who here cannot afford $40-$50 more for the 6400? The guy who was playing around with the DS3 board likes to throw money around for kicks. He bought a board to play with. I have no problem with that.

With regards to crime rates and abortion. Legalizing abortion is the strongest correlation to the reduction in crime according to Freakanomics, written by an economist who also says that drug dealers live with there moms. Causation would involve uncovering the pathology of the given behavior. What Freakanomics states is that legalizing abortion is the strongest indicator in the reduction of crime in America.

The best professional athletes get the money, girls , fame and drugs. There is no question that Lance Armstrong is the greatest single testicle athlete alive today. To get to the greatest level above great one has to cheat. America does not want to hear that. Besides Lance makes $30+ million a year and has not thanked the doctors and drug pushers for all his championships.

When I insult someone I do not look stupid. I appear arrogant and filled with hubris. One must clean the toxins out of thyself from time to time. Otherwise I would lead a life of passive aggressiveness like so many others.

I was brought up similar to the way Dr. Evil was raised. I thank you for your apathy and pity. You wouldn't want to walk in my shoe's, neither do I.

 

[Hans Gruber]

My calculator says 3150. You did say 7 x 450 = 3150 on my Windows XP Professional calculator. My calculations are probably wrong. Better stick with your 4Ghz calculation, it sounds much better!

 

[ThePiston]

Originally posted by: Hans Gruber
My calculator says 3150. You did say 7 x 450 = 3150 on my Windows XP Professional calculator. My calculations are probably wrong. Better stick with your 4Ghz calculation, it sounds much better!

Ok, I'm going to make this easier for you, Junior... why does my CTE say 4050Ghz when the math is 3150? That's my question.

 

[redhawk56]

Originally posted by: ThePiston

Originally posted by: Hans Gruber
Piston,
Better get a new calculator, you're at 3150Mhz. Try downloading CPU-Z and you can forget about the calculator.

why do both my tools says 4050Ghz?

LOL........ I think I've figured it out. Your flux capacitor is fluxing it.

Where did you get a display on Easytune like that. Mine never looked like that? Is that a new version?

 

[redhawk56]

To the moderator of this forum, please install an ignore button as soon as possible.

 

[redhawk56]

F9 is out on the GB website for the DS3 rev1 & 2

 

[ThePiston]

F9 BIOS

upgrades:
1. Update CPU ID
2. FSB 1333 MHz support

 

[dnottis]

GBs posts are so informative... sheesh.


Who here cannot afford $40-$50 more for the 6400? The guy who was playing around with the DS3 board likes to throw money around for kicks. He bought a board to play with. I have no problem with that.

Yea, I toss around $129. Rich man, rich. From your posts it's easy to see your a little unstable.

 

[ThePiston]

someone take a look at this cpu-z screenshot and tell me where I can make my next move... my voltages are already pretty high... maybe i need to bring my latencies down? they are 5-5-5-15 now.
3150Mhz

 

[imported_K3N]

why are you using a 7x multiplier instead of 9x?

 

[ThePiston]

Originally posted by: K3N
why are you using a 7x multiplier instead of 9x?

So i can run my ram and bus faster

 

[dnottis]

I dont need that much voltage till Im at 3.6, I'd say your chip is topped out there.

 

[Hans Gruber]

Piston,
3150Mhz is a pretty pathetic overclock for a 6600. I agree with the other experts. Turn up your multiplier to 8x or 9x. If you saw some of the overclocks some expert overclockers are getting you would be embarassed. Your voltage doesn't get high until you go past 1.5v. This is assuming you have an upgraded cooler.

You should try 9x 400FSB that will give you 3.6Ghz. On your computer it will probably read 5Ghz.

As far as DSM-IV goes with calling me unstable. You have to be qualified to make a diagnosis. It's illegal to diagnose others. Since you didn't really diagnose me, you just an apathetic jerk.

My one true love signed her divorce papers today. I wasn't married to the tramp. I pray that each and every one of you experience the pure evil of the female species. I realize most of you won't ever have this unfortunate priviledge. Her marriage lasted a whole 5 months. Perhaps then you will have some compassion.

 

[Hans Gruber]

This is a reprint from those idiots and Tom's Hardware. What do they know? Maybe everything...

Enthusiasts have long viewed overclocking as one path to "cheap performance", but spending $900 on phase-change cooling to get a $200 processor to perform like an $800 processor results in a decrease in value to the tune of $300. With that in mind, spending huge sums of money to get an astronomical overclock out of a cheap part can only be seen as a sport, with the winner buying bragging rights. A list of up-to-date Web prices proves useful:

Intel Core 2 Duo Desktop Processor Web Prices
Model Lowest Price Upgrade Cost
E6300 $180 Cheapest
E6400 $220 $40
E6600 $315 $95
E6700 $495 $180
X6800 $910 $415

Buying a $40 cooler to push the Core 2 Duo E6300 far beyond E6400 performance sounds good at first, until one considers that the E6400 can be moderately overclocked for no additional expense using the cooler it came with. Any cooling upgrade meant to increase overclock ability only becomes a "justified expense" when it takes the lower model processor beyond what the "next model up" can accomplish using its included cooler. In other words, if the E6400 can clock to 3 GHz using the stock cooler, adding a $40 cooler to the E6300 must allow it to clock beyond 3 GHz in order to maintain value.

The same concept works its way up the line for our Core 2 Duo E6400: Spending $95 on a high-end cooler must allow it to beat the E6600 at its stock-cooled overclock limit, or else "bang for the buck" favors the more expensive processor and all our overclocking attempts are in vain. With that in mind, we chose three cooling configurations to test the potential clock speed of a Core 2 Duo E6400: The stock cooler, a giant $70 air cooler by Zalman and a "high value" $160 water cooler from Gigabyte.

 

[Roguestar]

Originally posted by: Hans Gruber
Piston,
3150Mhz is a pretty pathetic overclock for a 6600. I agree with the other experts. Turn up your multiplier to 8x or 9x. If you saw some of the overclocks some expert overclockers are getting you would be embarassed. Your voltage doesn't get high until you go past 1.5v. This is assuming you have an upgraded cooler.

You should try 9x 400FSB that will give you 3.6Ghz. On your computer it will probably read 5Ghz.

As far as DSM-IV goes with calling me unstable. You have to be qualified to make a diagnosis. It's illegal to diagnose others. Since you didn't really diagnose me, you just an apathetic jerk.

My one true love signed her divorce papers today. I wasn't married to the tramp. I pray that each and every one of you experience the pure evil of the female species. I realize most of you won't ever have this unfortunate priviledge. Her marriage lasted a whole 5 months. Perhaps then you will have some compassion.

Christ man I can understand that you're bitter but there's no need to take it out on other posters. Sure, 3.15Ghz isn't a record breaking overclock for an E6600 but it's enough to take it past the X6800 in performance stakes and without breaking the bank.

By the way, I hope things get better for you.

 

[tastyratz]

Yes hans bitter is one thing and understandably so in your situation, however society doesn't give you an excuse to act out just as a child with a temper tantrum shouldn't be allowed to just do so. Nobody questions your intelligence however dis respectfulness does not get you out of that wheel chair, nor does it force other members to pity you or make a religion of your speakings. This is a gigabyte p965-ds3 thread for owners/soon to be's to discuss the board and its merits/tweaks/downfalls, Please I ask we stay on topic.
play nice

 

[theelectic]

F9 bios report: same cold boot issue as with F8. Also previously Orthos stable 460x7 became unstable until I bumped up the core voltage by 0.0125V. Oh well, back to F7 for me.

 

[yiranhu]

Originally posted by: theelectic
F9 bios report: same cold boot issue as with F8. Also previously Orthos stable 460x7 became unstable until I bumped up the core voltage by 0.0125V. Oh well, back to F7 for me.

Is this the general consensus of the F9 bios? I don't even want to bother if it is the same situation all over. That F8 fiasco took me like half a day to fix!

 

[Ricochet]

Originally posted by: vailr

Actually, the best procedure would be: reset CMOS (with power cord unplugged), THEN flash the bios. In other words: don't flash the bios when overclocked, voltages other than default, etc.

That sounds well and dandy, but some of us with 19xx, 79xx, or 8800 series video card the massive heatsink is directly over the CMOS reset jumper. Add to that the complexity of the P180 case which has the PSU wiring come up from the bottom and you got yourself a mess to deal with.

 

[vailr]

Originally posted by: ricochet

Originally posted by: vailr

Actually, the best procedure would be: reset CMOS (with power cord unplugged), THEN flash the bios. In other words: don't flash the bios when overclocked, voltages other than default, etc.

That sounds well and dandy, but some of us with 19xx, 79xx, or 8800 series video card the massive heatsink is directly over the CMOS reset jumper. Add to that the complexity of the P180 case which has the PSU wiring come up from the bottom and you got yourself a mess to deal with.

Setting "Optimized Defaults" and rebooting does pretty much the same effect as: the CMOS clearing on the motherboard pins, using a jumper.