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

[lookin4dlz]

Originally posted by: bgstewar
PCI-e is set at 100.

Set this to 102 & you should get a better oc. I went up over 1.5 vcore w/o being able to oc much before I read to do this...

 

[galperi1]

Need some help...

Just got 2 new 300GB SATA Hard Drives. I hooked them up to the purple connecters and the BIOS recognized them and I put them in a RAID 1 set up (mirrored). However... Vista will not recognize the drive and the drivers on the gigabyte website do not work....can someone help me?

 

[TeejayV]

i have an 8800gts on my DS3.
This board can't have two PCI-E cards in it at once can it? I want to put my older x1950pro card into it as well and display to two monitors. It obviously wouldnt' be SLI mode, but i dont' even know if there are two PCI-E lanes that i can plug the second card into.

Any help would be appreciated. (If in fact this board does not allow for this.. what boards can i look at that would enable this option for me? (e4300 btw).

 

[vailr]

@galperi1: try the latest JMicron drivers at station-drivers.com

@TeejayV: The Gigabyte P965-DS3 board has only one 16x PCIe slot.
If you're thinking of putting a 16x card into a 1x slot: no, that won't work.
However, all current 16x video cards have dual outputs and can already display to 2 monitors.
There are also a few (slow) PCI or 1x PCIe video cards, if you want to keep the DS3, yet still have dual video cards.
The newer P35 chipset only supports dual PCIe slots in 16x /4x configuration. One example is the Abit IP35-Pro.
With that or similar boards, one could use dual 16x PCIe video cards, although the card in the 4x slot might be slowed down a bit, especially in 3D mode.
The upcoming Intel X38 chipset boards will have full dual 16x video card support. The older Intel 975 and nVidia 680 chipsets also support dual 16x video cards. AFAIK, there are no motherboards, for either Intel or AMD CPU's, that (officially) support BOTH: SLI and Crossfire.

 

[galperi1]

Originally posted by: vailr
@galperi1: try the latest JMicron drivers at station-drivers.com

I found the new drivers and installed them. I can now see the new Drive in Vista's computer management.

Now... it first needs to be initialized which is fine. After that it shows up as unallocated. The only option I have next is to create a new Simple drive. From my understanding you can only do that with 1 drive... not 2. Also, when I benchmark the drive in Sisoft it seems to be on Par with a SATA300 single drive. I would have assumed if it really was in RAID 1, the performance would be a LITTLE better than a single drive.

I just want to make sure that it really is copying data to both HDD's because I don't want to go through all the work to just find out that it isn't

 

[vailr]

@galperi1:
Did you set up the raid array in the motherboard's raid setup bios?
Raid0 will be faster than a single drive, but also riskier. If either drive fails, you lose data on both drives.
Raid1 simply writes the same data to both drives; won't be any faster than a single HD.

 

[galperi1]

Originally posted by: vailr
@galperi1:
Did you set up the raid array in the motherboard's raid setup bios?
Raid0 will be faster than a single drive, but also riskier. If either drive fails, you lose data on both drives.
Raid1 simply writes the same data to both drives; won't be any faster than a single HD.

Yes, when I plugged them in, the BIOS was able to detect them and I set them up through the motherboard's raid setup. It's just Vista that is somewhat being annoying.

I just thought that mirrored drives are recognized differently in Computer Management then a single drive. If that is not the case, I guess I might be set.

 

[Diogenes2]

Originally posted by: bgstewar
I'm desperate here folks.

With an E6600, I can't, for the life of me, get anywhere above 3.0 Ghz. I've tried just about everything I can think of. In fact, just to reach 3.0, I had to up the vcore up to 1.475! I have good G. Skill PC6400 mem at 5-5-5-15 and 2.1 v. My MCH, FSB, and PCI-e volts are all up 0.1 volts. PCI-e is set at 100. I have disabled C1E, CIA2, VT, etc. and all the necessary options so I can OC. I'm using Bios F11.

It seems my most stable OC at low voltage is 2.8 ghz. with 1.375 v. Did I just get unlucky with parts that don't want to overclock, or could I try something else? Update BIOS?

I ran into the same problems as you with a E6420 and DS3 V3.3 and F11 BIOS .. ( BIOS it came with )

I rolled the BIOS back to F4 and all was well..

The reason I went to F4, was because I had a couple of of other good overclocks
on a DS3 v1 .. I'm using it for my Q6600 as well..

 

[wootwoot]

I am having a problem with my revision 2.0 gigabyte board. I have bios F11 on it and have the chip overclocked from 1.8ghz to 3.0ghz. Stable as a rock. My problem is that I am trying to enable virtualization but when I see the bios screenshots that other people post I have every option they have except the virtualization. It is simply not there. Should I put the settings back to stock and revert to an older bios? I really want to get this running and I need to have it enabled for things to work correctly in linux.

 

[lookin4dlz]

Is anyone using this HP PC2-6400 memory?
http://www.costcentral.com/pro...T/L95820/pricegrabber/

I have Corsair PC-5400 1:1 at 4-4-4-10 with the fsb at 320 & was wondering if this ram would allow me to run async and get higher memory throughput.

 

[lookin4dlz]

FWIW, I changed my multiplier from 9x to 10x & upped my fsb to 360. Now I run at 3.24GHz whereas at 10x I was only stable at 3.20 GHz.

 

[dez93]

hi all. has anyone out there failed/succeeded in getting a thermalright ultra-120 eXtreme on the CPU to sit next to a thermalright HR-05 on the northbridge, on this board?
Cheers!
Dez

 

[jbailey77]

I created a new topic for what the original post was.

 

[Feek]

Is there a definative answer as to whether the NB heatsink is in fact glued to the NB itself on the 965P-DS3? (Rev 3.3)

I'm using a Noctua NH-U12F HSF on my E6600 on this board and the clearance over the NB is very tight as can be seen here:

http://img261.imageshack.us/my.php?image=nbyd9.jpg

(yes, I know that fan cable needs tidying, but I only built the box yesterday).

I'd like to remove the stock heatsink and fit some kind of more efficient low profile HSF to the NB itself. It's either that or I try and fix a small fan to the top of the existing heat sink itself.

Not sure what's best.

 

[nyker96]

greetings everyone, I just updated my very old S3 v1.0 to F12 BIOS, all these new BIOS don't seem to do much for me still overclock about the same and no improvement on memory benchs // cpu benchs etc. I wonder what this new F12 is really for probably to support new CPUs. It sayd improvement on OC on the change list.

Anyways, I am planning to get a G0 q6600 in a few months time, I wonder if my older S3 v1.0 can support a G0? What do you guys think? I know it's able to run B3s as many people have done that.

 

[3DoubleD]

Hi,

I'm running a GA-965G-DS3 and a E4300. I'm having trouble with my OC. I can't exceed 240FSB without the Intel SATA failing and 267FSB without the entire SATA/IDE system failing. This is true even with a 6x multiplier and my DDR 800 running below spec (2.00 multiplier). I'm sure it isn't my CPU or my RAM so I was wondering if anyone else has had or heard of such a problem. I'm currently running the F9 bios.

Thanks

 

[lookin4dlz]

Changing the pci-e to a higher value if you haven't. Doing so changed everything for me.

 

[newschool]

I just got this motherboard, and I my internet connection is really bad. Im using the integrated Marvell Gigabit controller. The latency is just very high when playing games and it is not stable at all. For some servers I had 30ms ping, Im now at 100ish. I just want to know if I am the only one with this problem because IT COULD be my new internet connection, I am logging at the university network.

I updated my Marvell driver. (any good configuration for the marvell driver?)
Gigabyte 965P-DS3 Bios 10
E4300 non/oc
Crucial Ballistix 800mhz 4-4-4-12
CAT 6 startech gigabit ethernet cable

 

[broken sticks]

I have an E6320, which apparently F11 BIOS has some extra support for?? What, exactly?

I'm just about to embark on an OC mission, and when I tried F11 & F12 bios' before my temps went up 15degrees at least, with no OC?! So I went back to F10. Were they just a more accurate read? I don't like constantly flashing the BIOS. And what exactly does the extra support for the 6320/6420 give me?




E6320
DS3 Rev. 3.3 - F10 BIOS
2GB Corsair XMS2 5400C4
WD 250GB SATA
X1950 Pro
Corsair HX520
Gigabyte Triton Case

 

[broken sticks]

Originally posted by: broken sticks

I have an E6320, which apparently F11 BIOS has some extra support for?? What, exactly?

I'm just about to embark on an OC mission, and when I tried F11 & F12 bios' before my temps went up 15degrees at least, with no OC?! So I went back to F10. Were they just a more accurate read? I don't like constantly flashing the BIOS. And what exactly does the extra support for the 6320/6420 give me?

Cool, did some testing, here are my findings:



MY 6320 would not overclock very much at all with F10 BIOS:

I'd get to 1.92 GHz in BIOS, and up to 2.13 GHz stable in easytune.
I thought my DDR2-667 was the problem for a while, but no.
Easytune and BIOS were recording idle CPU temps of 20-odd degrees C. Not right, I know. Coretemp would reveal low-30s.


Upgraded to F12 BIOS:

Sorted. Very stable at the moment with a clock of 2.38GHz (7x340).
This is with PCIe at 103MHz and +0.1v. My memory (Corsair XMS2 5400C4) is running at 680MHz with 4-4-4-12 - very nice. These are the only changes.
I've took it higher (just below 2.8GHz), but for now i'm very happy to have any reasonable overclock, as I thought I'd bought a bad combination of stuff until I updated the BIOS.
Oh yeah, temps: CPU is between 33 and 35 idle, i'm quite happy with that. TAT took it to about 55 under full load, which is OK, coz nothing else (F.E.A.R / Prey) gets it that hot.
Oh yeah, stock HSF, no extra grease I'll be getting a Scythe and some Arctic Silver 5 soon, then I can give it a push.




This forum has been fantastic. When i was deciding which motherboard, this forum helped convince me to get the DS3 (along with Xstreme and hardforum) and, yes, I read all 105 pages before posting :|


EDIT - Added links to those other useful places

 

[Brodel]

Originally posted by: Moishe
correct me if this is not the place to talk about the "S3".
I have the S3 F8 w/ bios
I play BF2 and the voip in BF2 will not work with the realtek onboard audio on the P965-S3.

I have searched and searched to no avail and am simply wondering if anyone has found a solution.

BF2 can only use the default audio input device. It's notoriously finicky, but particularly with onboard audio.
My mic works fine in windows/BF 2142, but not in BF2.
I have tried:
the 0% threshold trick
updated drivers of all kinds
stock settings for CPU/RAM/video/everything

Any ideas/tricks, I'll try them, thanks. And please refrain from telling me to spend money on a new sound card.

Originally posted by: 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

Hi,

My friend is having the same problem and I haven't found a solution to it in this thread. Does anyone have a fix?

 

[newschool]

I updated to F12 bios. But now It seems that I cant change my RAM voltage anymore. When I save to +1 or +2 in the bios, its allright but after in windows, Everest always read 1.81V. And with the F11 bios Everest would read the diffirent voltages I used..

 

[1Dark1Sharigan1]

I've had my motherboard and CPU overclocked at 400x8 (3.2 GHz) stable for a year now, but suddenly just today I am having issues with the board using any sort of manual FSB value. Even at the default 266 Mhz, posting gives me issues. Now it doesn't fail to post but what it does is hang on the post screen for a few seconds and then resets, posting at the default 266 Mhz FSB value. I don't think it's a memory issue since the memory reset back to auto at 800 Mhz (which is what it showed when I loaded up the MIT screen after the reset)

I thought it may be a BIOS issue so I flashed to the latest F12 BIOS but I get the same issue. Anyone encounter this before? Is there some setting that I'm missing? Or is it about time for me to change out the mobo (which I'm willing to do but it would be nice if I don't have to go through the hassle)? Or maybe flash back to a previous bios version that is known to be overclocker friendly?

EDIT: Fixed. Turns out the problem was my new USB hard drive. Apparently it's not just the xbox 360 HD DVD drive that messes with this boards overclocks. Certain USB hard drives can as well. Anyway, I switched it over to eSATA and everything works as usual.

 

[nyker96]

I just found something out last night about my v1 S3 that was bugging me for a while. I used to get BSOD when installing the chipset drivers. I just found out by accident last night in a fresh install of win xp that you need to install the LAN driver before the chipset drivers becuase the chipset driver depends on the presence of the LAN driver. If you install chipset w/o LAN driver first, you get a BSOD right at the step the chipset is putting a driver on for the LAN port. Just so people would watch out for this.

 

[Kaleid]

I have the Gigabyte 965P-S3 v1.0 overclocked and all (see signature) and I have some questions that I hope someone will answer.

Would adding a third Kingmax 1GB (resulting into 3GB memory) be of any benefit? Does it work? Can I overclock? Or would I need to add fourth? Or would two 2GB be best?

Also, I need a reminder, does XP x86 even recognize 3GB of memory or would I need to switch to a x64 OS?