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

[Undersea]

Got this mobo in gf's machine. Gonna replace p4 preshott with an e6400 tomorrow night and do some oc'ing. The ram in the build is corsair value and is running at ddr2-750 right now, so 3.0ghz shouldn't be a problem. Just had a few questions for all you ds3 users out there. I didn't get a chance to read through all the 59 pages in the thread, so I thought I'd post them up:

I was wondering if there are any "strap" issues like with some of the asus boards? (IE, does it strap at 400, so I should go higher then that to make up the difference?)

Is there an fsb range that is problematic and I should avoid if at all possible?

thanks!

Anwser: Yes

I run 1:1. When I played with the dividers it didn't go well. I think most run 1:1.

 

[NINaudio]

yes, there's a strap issue or yes there's and fsb range that has trouble reaching stability? Or yes to something else?

 

[Undersea]

It differs per motherboard but I believe all the 965 chipsets have issues with straps or dividers, whatever intel calls them.

1:1 is your best bet IMO.

 

[Endlessshampoo]

gonna get this mobo tommorow and got my 8800gts today. But i was wondering if anyone got problems with cellshock ram and e6600 ?

my ram is cellshock 6400 4.4.4.12 cl4 2 gb dc

 

[ThePiston]

i have a question too - is everyone advocating using Micron D9 ram on this board? Seemes like the Geil 6400 stuff deos pretty well with this board and it's not too expensive

 

[Undersea]

Did you click the link? Everything is D9. D9 works fine upto 450 and a little beyond if your lucky!

 

[DuncanA]

Originally posted by: StopSign
I've tried all of F7, F8 and F9. F8 and F9 both have cold boot problems whereas F7 doesn't.

I'm in the same boat as you StopSign. With the F7 bios is seems that my X-FI isn't recognized in Windows roughly every 3rd cold boot whereas the F9 bios doesn't retain my overclock settings. The F9 also freaks me out every time I cold boot it. It powers on w/no POST and stays on indefinitely until I power cycle.

Sigh... I pray there will be an F10 bios with these fixes.

 

[ThePiston]

Originally posted by: Undersea
Did you click the link? Everything is D9. D9 works fine upto 450 and a little beyond if your lucky!

sorry, what link? i have OCZ Plat which i'm told isn't D9 but another guy using it is getting 475

 

[dolphumous]

Just curious...

Is anyone with a rev2 of this board having the same BIOS/Cold Boot/Etc issues?

 

[ThePiston]

Originally posted by: dolphumous
Just curious...

Is anyone with a rev2 of this board having the same BIOS/Cold Boot/Etc issues?

sadly, yes

 

[DuncanA]

yep.

system specs

E6600 @ 3600Mhz (9X400) 1.50V Tuniq Tower
Gigabye DS3 rev2 F9
2GB Corsair Dominator 8500C5D
8800 GTX
etc...

 

[dolphumous]

ZZF just came back in stock. $142 shipped
http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=322342

Guess I'll find out soon...

 

[mcurphy]

eWiz has the DS3 for only $129.78 - not sure what shipping is

 

[dolphumous]

It was $13 for ground to my house making the total $143ish

Plus eWiz's site looks janky. I just don't trust them for some reason.

 

[mcurphy]

Originally posted by: dolphumous
It was $13 for ground to my house making the total $143ish

Plus eWiz's site looks janky. I just don't trust them for some reason.

lol, yeah the site needs some work. But I don't think you need to worry about trusting them. I know quite a few users who go there to get the Enhance 5150 PSU.

But you got a better deal anyhow with ZZF.

 

[StopSign]

Originally posted by: ThePiston

Originally posted by: Undersea
Did you click the link? Everything is D9. D9 works fine upto 450 and a little beyond if your lucky!

sorry, what link? i have OCZ Plat which i'm told isn't D9 but another guy using it is getting 475

According to that site what you (we) have is Elpida chips on a Brainpower PCB. I can get mine to 465 and possibly more. The max is around 475 to 480 where it doesn't boot. I read a review somewhere that said this memory doesn't like to be overvolted. Have you tried running it at the rated 2.1v?

 

[vailr]

MWave.com is also back in stock on the DS3.
Their price is $129.15, less "$10 off" coupon for new customers (via froogle.com).
Do a froogle.com search for:
Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3 Intel 965 Chipset
and mwave.com's price of $129.15 appears first.

 

[Mogadon]

I got the G Skill HZ's which is D9, running at 475 now, got up 525 but was unstable, still testing.

 

[Endlessshampoo]

what bios version was ya mobo shipped with mogadon ?

aslong i can get it to post i would be happy.

 

[ThePiston]

According to that site what you (we) have is Elpida chips on a Brainpower PCB. I can get mine to 465 and possibly more. The max is around 475 to 480 where it doesn't boot. I read a review somewhere that said this memory doesn't like to be overvolted. Have you tried running it at the rated 2.1v?

that's +0.3 right? what are your other voltages?

 

[StopSign]

CPU is at 1.2500 or something around there. It's undervolted by 0.075v.

Yes, Vdimm must be +0.3 to be operational at this clock speed. 1.8 or 1.9 might actually be stable at stock, but I haven't tested that. I just know it boots up at 1.8 no problem.

Everything else is at normal.

 

[ThePiston]

Originally posted by: StopSign
CPU is at 1.2500 or something around there. It's undervolted by 0.075v.

Yes, Vdimm must be +0.3 to be operational at this clock speed. 1.8 or 1.9 might actually be stable at stock, but I haven't tested that. I just know it boots up at 1.8 no problem.

Everything else is at normal.

i'm surprised you're getting 456 speed without overvolting the FSB. I'll give it a try though.

 

[StopSign]

I had it stable at 465 with FSB at normal. I'm not going to push for that though because I'd rather run my CPU cool by undervolting despite the ever so slight performance loss.

 

[Tates]

Bios F10...from station-drivers

1. Enhance FSB frequency flexibility
2. Fix OC für Allendale CPUen
3. Micron D9 1000 MHz 4-4-4-12 2.2V
3. Micron D9 1100 MHz 5-5-5-15 2.3V
3. Micron D9 1200 MHz 5-8-8-20 2.35V
4. Fix Kaltstart (cold start)
5. Fix Vdrop in C1E Funktion
6. Neues Features ´High Speed DRAM DLL Setting´
7. Intel® HPET Support
8. FSB 1333 MHz support (Auto ab Rev.3.3)
9. JMicron ROM update
10. BIOS Profilspeicherung möglich (Profile storage)
11. Q-Flash jetzt mit USB-Stick möglich (flash now with USB-stick)

Must be from FTP Gigabyte DE

 

[ThePiston]

finally, thanks