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

[vixwind]

My lower multiplier trick didn't work, but I am trying aussieburger's shot and it seems to be working.

I shall post results again.

 

[Marklo]

Basically followed the guide in aussieburger's first link.

Set my PCIe to 110, set the voltages to +.1 (my ram is spec'd at 1.9-2.0v so I didn't use the +.3 as in the guide )and set the cpu to 1.35, boots fine at 3059HZ and everything happy. And manually set my memory to 5-5-5-15.

I'd guess that it's either the cpu needing that extra .25v or the PCIe speed causing the issue.

 

[Ejhocky313]

Well, Following that guide I have ran into many problems as well...For some reason everytime try to get to 3.0 Ghz with my E6600 I can't post and it will restart the computer and reset it the previous BIOS setting.

should I need to go more than +.01 on the FSB, MCH, and PCIe?

I Have the cpu Vcore @ 1.375
I already have the RAM at +.04 (G. Skill runs natively at 2.0-2.1)

I guess when I get home from work I will try putting the PCIe frequency up to about 110, just to see what happens.

I was really hoping for a good OC on this board with all the rave reviews.

 

[C4VTS]

Changinging my PCI-E frequency just results in a reboot to default settings no matter what i set it to.

It seems the only thing I can overclock is my DDR2 667 to 800.

 

[Ejhocky313]

Same results here, changing the PCIe frequency yeilds no results whatsoever...I will remain (semi-happy) at my overclocked 2.7 GHz state until there is possibly something else to try. I am not getting anywhere and I have tried everything.

 

[vixwind]

On the issue of losing overclocked settings...

PCI-E at 102 Mhz seems to be working for me in combination with a +0.1 PCI-E voltage increase.

Had many boots and reboots and my overclocked settings are retained.

 

[aussieburger]

For me the increased pci-e settings I quoted on the last page gave my ram nothing extra. Memtest86 test #8 still fails if I try going higher than 430.

So the settings and voltages i'm using for now until I get better ram are:

PCI-E OverVoltage Control_ [+0.1V]
FSB OverVoltage Control___ [+0.1V]
(G)MCH OverVoltage Control [+0.1V]
CPU Voltage Control_______ [1.375V]

PCI-E frequency 105 <- note this needs to be slightly above 100 to get a stable OC and ensure your pci-e lane stays at 16x

gives a stable (orthos 2+hrs and memtest86 pass) 430 * 7 = 3.0 with the E6300 which i'm happy with for now

 

[aussieburger]

Originally posted by: Marklo

Vcore looked to be at 1.35 but I wasn't able to see the other voltages. Any suggestions on how to check the other voltages from windows (I'm using Vista).

I'd also like to know this ... but never seen a program that can show these other voltages yet ... apart from speedfan which shows your ddr2 voltage (it's the voltage above or below your cpu voltage)

Originally posted by: Ejhocky313

I Have the cpu Vcore @ 1.375

I would try putting the cpu Vcore to 1.4 just to see if that can get you stable at 3.0ghz (and then slowly decrease once stable) ... I had problems getting above 2.8 with my E6300 before I started increasing my Vcore.

 

[vixwind]

I report success so far.

The PCI-E 102 Mhz and +0.1 voltage seem to be working.

For testing purposes, I have reverted back to my old settings and the BIOS reset again the overclocking settings. I then switched back to the above settings and it boots fine without resetting my overclocking.

Of course orthos & memtest stable.

Will report back in a few days but I think it's finally fixed. Thanks!

 

[Danman]

Has anyone had the problem when overclocking the system you get static noises through the sound? I found out from another thread that the PCI-e link width goes from 16x down to 1x when you overclock the processor. Although, when I adjust the PCI-E MHZ to 115 it will go back up to 16x. Hopefully this makes sense to someone.

This is what I have hardware-wise:
C2D E4300
Gigabyte P965-DS3P rev1.3 F11
4GB GSkill PC6400
MSI 8600GTS 256MB


Any insight?

 

[aussieburger]

haven't had any static noise problem ... what are your current oc settings ?

To keep a 16x pci-e link width while overclocking you need only to set the frequency between 102-105 as I said above

 

[Danman]

Originally posted by: aussieburger
haven't had any static noise problem ... what are your current oc settings ?

To keep a 16x pci-e link width while overclocking you need only to set the frequency between 102-105 as I said above

Okay, I'll try that when I get home.

It doesn't matter what multiplier I put it at, I get the static noise. Now once it's not oc'd, works perfectly fine. Right now, I have 250 x 9 and it works fine...when I bring up the pci-e frequency.

 

[C4VTS]

I have been experimenting!

Installed a standard PCI VGA card and have been able to overclock in BIOS.

Replaced the PCI card with my PCI-E 7300GT and the BIOS has held the overclock settings so far.

Wonder how long this will last.

E6600
FSB 320MHZ X9

 

[Marklo]

Still running well with the E4300 at 340FSB. Haven't needed to increase the vcore past 1.35 and temps are fine. RAM is running at a slight overclock and manually set to the specified 5-5-5-15.

I could probably turn down the PCIe a little but everything is running fine and the X1650 should tolerate 10Hz of an overclock. from reading the posts here I'd say that the optimum PCIe oc may be card or GPU dependant. I kind of want to use my system at this point rather than spend my day in the Bios , so this can wait.

I did have the sound card noise problem before this but I also notice that it has gone away with the OC'd PCIe.

 

[Praytus]

Anyone have recommend settings for my new purchase.

DS3 3.3 (F11 Bios)
E6600
4GB of This 4-4-4-12 Ram
A Tuniq Tower cooler
and an Antec 900 case.

Ideally I'd like to be at 3-3.2 if possible. If anyone can help I'd be much appreciated.

I'm using X64 Vista, so some of the temp tools listed in the threads don't seem to work, but Z does.

 

[1ManArmY]

Well all of my problems have been resolved by replacing my DS3 with a ASUS P5K Deluxe
MOBO, got her up and running at 3.6 for 10 hrs stables no issues at all.

I am currently running at 3.2 (8 X 404) Vcore 1.385, I'm happy camper now

 

[charger2000]

Hi

I have a problem with the audio input, ALL the inputs are disabled, either from the Windows Control Panel and the Realtek panel, Mic, Line in, CD Volume are all greyed out, tried to uninstall and reinstall latest drivers but with no results.

The audio out is from spdif to HDMI (MSI Diamond Plus), the internal audio connectors, to front panels, have been detached.

any idea ?

Nik

 

[Avalon]

Originally posted by: Danman
Has anyone had the problem when overclocking the system you get static noises through the sound? I found out from another thread that the PCI-e link width goes from 16x down to 1x when you overclock the processor. Although, when I adjust the PCI-E MHZ to 115 it will go back up to 16x. Hopefully this makes sense to someone.

This is what I have hardware-wise:
C2D E4300
Gigabyte P965-DS3P rev1.3 F11
4GB GSkill PC6400
MSI 8600GTS 256MB


Any insight?

Just as an update to this, I went over Danman's place and setting the PCI-e frequency manually did solve this static audio problem.

Unfortunately, now we're having another problem. The minute we try to overclock 1Mhz and save the BIOS settings, the system turns off, and when it turns back on it has defaulted all our settings.

I have confirmed that I can change anything else I want and save it, but as soon as I go from 200FSB to 201FSB or even 266FSB, the system shuts down and then powers back up with default settings.

It's pretty ridiculous since we had his system running overnight Orthos stable at 266x9 no problem, but now we can't do anything. Any thoughts?

 

[1ManArmY]

Originally posted by: Avalon

Originally posted by: Danman
Has anyone had the problem when overclocking the system you get static noises through the sound? I found out from another thread that the PCI-e link width goes from 16x down to 1x when you overclock the processor. Although, when I adjust the PCI-E MHZ to 115 it will go back up to 16x. Hopefully this makes sense to someone.

This is what I have hardware-wise:
C2D E4300
Gigabyte P965-DS3P rev1.3 F11
4GB GSkill PC6400
MSI 8600GTS 256MB


Any insight?

Just as an update to this, I went over Danman's place and setting the PCI-e frequency manually did solve this static audio problem.

Unfortunately, now we're having another problem. The minute we try to overclock 1Mhz and save the BIOS settings, the system turns off, and when it turns back on it has defaulted all our settings.

I have confirmed that I can change anything else I want and save it, but as soon as I go from 200FSB to 201FSB or even 266FSB, the system shuts down and then powers back up with default settings.

It's pretty ridiculous since we had his system running overnight Orthos stable at 266x9 no problem, but now we can't do anything. Any thoughts?

the dreaded loss of overclock. It's quite frustrating, I dealt with it for 2 weeks and RMA'd the board and replaced it with an ASUS P5K Deluxe MOBO. I had some success with my old DS3 when I replaced the battery but that was short lived.

 

[Marklo]

I'd suggest you adjust the voltages as well.

I'm still running fine at 340FSB, through many reboots, but I had to OC the PCIe (110Hz) and set the voltages to +.1 and CPU to 1.35 to do this. Now I may not need all of the voltages set at +.1 but I haven't got any urge to fidle around anymore to figure exactly which one is doing the trick.

Alternatively just set the power to auto, however this may set your CPU higher than it needs to be and make things a little hotter.

Nothing whatever to do with the battery, more likely to be the PSU not delivering exctly the listed voltages, or the mobo needing just a little extra to run at the selected speed.

 

[Avalon]

Doubt it's power, unless the PSU is faulty. It's a 500W Xclio Goodpower, which typically had pretty good detailed reviews around the web. Anywho, the next day Dan calls me and tells me the BIOS is now saving the overclock, and he's running at 266x9 no problem at auto/default voltages for everything. Weird.

 

[imported_cello]

nOOb question here. Trying to get my DS3 new build clean install to work on a single 200 gig Seagate drive. Everything seemed to be going well. It formated my HD loaded drivers so on and so forth and when it should have loaded the desktop it looped back to SetUp and now wants to do it allover again. For some reason it didn't continue. Any thoughts?? To load windows I set it up to boot from cd rom just like in an IDE syst. Do I neeed to do something special with the SATA drive?

 

[gorobei]

Originally posted by: cello
nOOb question here. Trying to get my DS3 new build clean install to work on a single 200 gig Seagate drive. Everything seemed to be going well. It formated my HD loaded drivers so on and so forth and when it should have loaded the desktop it looped back to SetUp and now wants to do it allover again. For some reason it didn't continue. Any thoughts?? To load windows I set it up to boot from cd rom just like in an IDE syst. Do I neeed to do something special with the SATA drive?

My general understanding on this is that you need to set the sata options in bios to legacy IDE.

 

[aussieburger]

Originally posted by: Avalon
Doubt it's power, unless the PSU is faulty. It's a 500W Xclio Goodpower, which typically had pretty good detailed reviews around the web. Anywho, the next day Dan calls me and tells me the BIOS is now saving the overclock, and he's running at 266x9 no problem at auto/default voltages for everything. Weird.

I believe Marklo meant that the voltages in your bios require adjusting not that your power supply is inadequate. This would be especially true if you say you set your Voltages to Auto (the flashing message) to get it working ... this means that the board adjusts the voltages itself (usually to a very high value). I did this once and noticed that my cpu voltage was set to about 1.45 !

Check your cpuz voltage (note this is always a little lower than what u actually have it set at) - use speedfan to see a closer measurement. Also note that under load your cpu voltage decreases (this is perfectly normal - the core 2 duo does this to keep temperatures under control to my understanding). Anyway the point is I noticed when on auto the higher voltages than I had running at the time so I increased them manually to an acceptable value and all was fine ... bios stopped resetting FSB on cold boots

Another interesting thing for me was when I left all volatages on Manual/default (auto voltage control off) gigabyte had undervoltage my cpu all the way to the loweset manual setting 1.2V !! Hense the reason why I couldn't get stable over 2.6ghz at the time !

 

[imported_cello]

Originally posted by: gorobei

Originally posted by: cello
nOOb question here. Trying to get my DS3 new build clean install to work on a single 200 gig Seagate drive. Everything seemed to be going well. It formated my HD loaded drivers so on and so forth and when it should have loaded the desktop it looped back to SetUp and now wants to do it allover again. For some reason it didn't continue. Any thoughts?? To load windows I set it up to boot from cd rom just like in an IDE syst. Do I neeed to do something special with the SATA drive?

My general understanding on this is that you need to set the sata options in bios to legacy IDE.

Do I still need to F6/load a driver?