The Unofficial Gigabyte GA-P35C-DS3R P35 Board Thread

[SniperDaws]

Originally posted by: boglwe
Hey folks, nice thread. I have the DS3R and I think I have a problem. My North bridge and memory are un-touchable. As in. If you touch them with your finger, you cant keep it on there for very long at all. My NB is running at 63c right now and the heatsink is Very hot to the touch. The memory is fine I think, All memory runs hot, but DAMM, this runs very hot, Crucial Ballistix Tracers PC800. Is there a solution to my NB being so hot? My CPU temps are very cool. I run a Q6600 at 3.1 and it runs idle at 35c and Load at 54c with a Ninja Scythe.

Any suggestions?

You need to get some air flow into your case, have you got any spare fans knocking about?

a good idea is to have a fan or fans blowing cool air into the the case from the bottom front and then q fan or fans blowing out at the rear top, so if you were lookinging side onto your case and you could see the air movment it would make a reversed S shape. http://www.heatsink-guide.com/...php?content=case.shtml

Also give your insides a spring clean

Hoover out any dust you can get to (Not while the pc is running though )
Get some tie straps and try and get any cables and wires out of air flow, tuck PSU cables not being used above or behind the PSU.

 

[5t3v0]

Originally posted by: boglwe
Hey folks, nice thread. I have the DS3R and I think I have a problem. My North bridge and memory are un-touchable. As in. If you touch them with your finger, you cant keep it on there for very long at all. My NB is running at 63c right now and the heatsink is Very hot to the touch. The memory is fine I think, All memory runs hot, but DAMM, this runs very hot, Crucial Ballistix Tracers PC800. Is there a solution to my NB being so hot? My CPU temps are very cool. I run a Q6600 at 3.1 and it runs idle at 35c and Load at 54c with a Ninja Scythe.

Any suggestions?

Yeah, add a 40mm fan to the top. I've described how I did it here - about 5 posts down.

 

[cleverest]

Drexl,

I never installed anything in SATA/AHCI mode at all (because I could never get it to work witht he boot floppy drivers) so the orange ports should have worked fine for any SATA device (running ide mode, after all my other two drives worked the entire time just perfectly).

It doesn't matter, I've rma's the board...looks like I'm a casualty....going to get the Abit IP35 Pro now, I may drop in once and let you all know if my system is ever up and working...if you still care to hear from a "traitor", hehe


- Brett

 

[Trajan76]

My P35C-DS3R just bit the big one. No freaking clue why. One minute everything kosher, next its a constant reboot and lock up fest. How the hell does it lock up in the BIOS? Finally degraded until it would start to boot and then lock up just after starting to post. Got a fast replacement of an Asus P5K deluxe. Nice board, the onboard sound sucks, but besides that. Pretty PO'd at Gigabyte at the moment, won't touch another one for at least a few years.

 

[cleverest]

Originally posted by: Trajan76
My P35C-DS3R just bit the big one. No freaking clue why. One minute everything kosher, next its a constant reboot and lock up fest. How the hell does it lock up in the BIOS? Finally degraded until it would start to boot and then lock up just after starting to post. Got a fast replacement of an Asus P5K deluxe. Nice board, the onboard sound sucks, but besides that. Pretty PO'd at Gigabyte at the moment, won't touch another one for at least a few years.

Man I feel your pain! I ended up going with Abit....we'll see how it turns out...at least it seems to have the best design of all the p35 board....the IDE connector isn't in a retarded place at least, lol

 

[SniperDaws]

Have you got it all up and running now Cleverest ?

How is it?

 

[shimurlz]

I live in a tropical country where is hot almost all days (30+ Celsius) . I read that the chipsets on this mobo gets hot and it come only with passive heatsinks. Now that i'm intent buy this mobo (already buy it waiting it arrive) i'm thinking about active cool the chipsets. My doubt is if it is possible to install active cooling on the chipsets and which one gets hotter the north, southbridge or both.

 

[roughsleeper]

Originally posted by: Trajan76
My P35C-DS3R just bit the big one. No freaking clue why. One minute everything kosher, next its a constant reboot and lock up fest. How the hell does it lock up in the BIOS? Finally degraded until it would start to boot and then lock up just after starting to post. Got a fast replacement of an Asus P5K deluxe. Nice board, the onboard sound sucks, but besides that. Pretty PO'd at Gigabyte at the moment, won't touch another one for at least a few years.

I have exactly the same problem - OC'd with no fails to 3.6, ran for 1 month solid, then restarted after some driver changes and the restarts started. Now I'm getting graphical when windows loads, and 5 second restarts - every component works fine in other rigs.
Your post has made me wonder if any others have the same issue? Might start a topic about it.

Is your board rev 1.1 also?

 

[cleverest]

Originally posted by: SniperDaws
Have you got it all up and running now Cleverest ?

How is it?

Not yet..I'll have my Abit board tomorrow or the next day (FRI), ended up getting the refund from newegg and buying it from ewiz.com to save a few dollars...local as well, and good reviews...I'll let you all know then how it is....if you want to know about it...I realize this isn't exactly the ABit thread...

 

[cleverest]

Originally posted by: shimurlz
I live in a tropical country where is hot almost all days (30+ Celsius) . I read that the chipsets on this mobo gets hot and it come only with passive heatsinks. Now that i'm intent buy this mobo (already buy it waiting it arrive) i'm thinking about active cool the chipsets. My doubt is if it is possible to install active cooling on the chipsets and which one gets hotter the north, southbridge or both.

Based on what I've read, the northbridge is the biggest heat threat on the gigabyte board...the southbridge doesn't get too hot from what I can find, at least not in comparison...some people have modded a 80mm fan to blow on the NB, that seems to take care of it good....

 

[5t3v0]

Originally posted by: shimurlz
I live in a tropical country where is hot almost all days (30+ Celsius) . I read that the chipsets on this mobo gets hot and it come only with passive heatsinks. Now that i'm intent buy this mobo (already buy it waiting it arrive) i'm thinking about active cool the chipsets. My doubt is if it is possible to install active cooling on the chipsets and which one gets hotter the north, southbridge or both.

NB is the one to worry about. I've got a 40mm fan screwed onto mine. Read my description here - about 5 posts down. I did post this same info about 5 posts above yours.

 

[Trajan76]

Yeah, Revision 1.1 sounds like we've more or less had the same problem. Hell, mine wasn't even overclocked. I've had my board for too long to try to return it to NewEgg. Generally I assume its not worth it to try to send it back to Gigabyte for their warrenty.

There seems to be a lot of issues with the early revisions of the board, furthermore it just seems to have issues none of the other Gigabyte boards have. I can only assume it has something to do with the hybrid nature of the board. I inspected the entire board, no evidence of any kind of blow out or chip failure.

Honestly I was hoping that I could flash the BIOS to salvage it, after doing everything I could in the CMOS and everywhere else. It ended up locking up midflash. Since it was my last attempt to salvage the board I am filing it under the nothing ventured nothing gained category. But if it wasn't dead before, the mid flash crash was the final nail in the coffin.

So I pulled the board and ditched it. Nothing else I could do.

 

[SniperDaws]

Since getting the Tuniq tower my Northbridge heatsink is cold to touch, before with the stock intel cpu cooler on the northbridge was hot to touch.

 

[Conjugal Visit]

I believe that over on another forum, a Gigabyte Support rep stated that there isn't any difference between the 1.1 and 2.0 boards - that it's a naming convention or some such. I think he went and said this when being questioned about Bios versions and their differences. I think the Bios versions are interchangeable. Check the Tweaktown thread - look for Janus. I run a 1.1 board, BTW - and have never had an issue.

 

[mrfatboy]

Officially, on the 2.0 boards they removed the parallel and serial port and added more USB ports. God knows what else they did unofficially.

 

[imported_Husky55]

Originally posted by: SniperDaws
Since getting the Tuniq tower my Northbridge heatsink is cold to touch, before with the stock intel cpu cooler on the northbridge was hot to touch.

Why would the NB be cooler if you just changed the CPU HSF? I just got a Tuniq also and my NB is a touch hot. There isn't enough room for me to hang another fan on the NB. If your observation is typical, then I don't even need to worry about the NB.

I don't see how though, as the fan on the Tuniq is inside. I never used the stock cooler so I just don't know.

Thanks,

 

[SniperDaws]

i think the Stock cooler throws a lot of the heat its trying to dissapate towards the northbridge cooler, and now since the tuniq tower is positioned to throw the heat straight out of my case the northbridge doesnt get heated. i did reseat the northbridge cooler using Arctic Silver 5 and for it too be cool could be that its not making contact on the northbridge chip, but saying that my pc would be crashing wouldnt it as ive got it overvolted and overclocked.

im a knob, i jusr ran Prime95 for 10mins and touched the heatsink and its pretty hot.

 

[imported_Gholam]

What's the difference in northbridge/VRM temps between DS3R and DS4? Trying to decide whether it's worth an extra $50 to get DS4 with its heatpipe cooling, or maybe get DS3R and spend an extra $20 on a Thermalright HR-05 for the northbridge. Planning to use it to OC a Q6600 with quiet cooling (Antec P182, Scythe Ninja).

 

[shimurlz]

I was looking in the gigabyte site about cpu support in p35c-ds3r rev 1.x and their list says that for an e6750 cpu the bios need to be the F4 version. Is this true ? Or others bios versions work with this cpu ?

 

[5t3v0]

Originally posted by: Gholam
What's the difference in northbridge/VRM temps between DS3R and DS4? Trying to decide whether it's worth an extra $50 to get DS4 with its heatpipe cooling, or maybe get DS3R and spend an extra $20 on a Thermalright HR-05 for the northbridge. Planning to use it to OC a Q6600 with quiet cooling (Antec P182, Scythe Ninja).

There's a lot of guys OCing the DS3R above 400MHz with the stock NB heatsink with no stability issues. Granted the thing is scorching hot but it was just the same at stock speed. You dont really need either but if you feel you must, then probably go for the DS4. The NB is very close to the cpu socket & that HR-05 might not fit next to a ninja.

Originally posted by: shimurlz
I was looking in the gigabyte site about cpu support in p35c-ds3r rev 1.x and their list says that for an e6750 cpu the bios need to be the F4 version. Is this true ? Or others bios versions work with this cpu ?

I'm using F2 & it detects the cpu correctly and applies the correct default voltage.

 

[imported_Jmac]

hey guys, im interested in setting up raid now on my primary drive (s). I am running vista (32bit). can anyone give me any info or kindly nudge me in the right direction?

 

[Conjugal Visit]

@Jmac - you mean set up Raid AFTER you've already installed your O/S? That will be tricky, I think. But try looking at this link:

http://forums.pcper.com/showthread.php?t=444831

Regards,

 

[imported_Gholam]

I found photos of P35-DS3R with Ninja mounted, it's linked off Scythe-EU forums:

http://img401.imageshack.us/my...njaongap35ds3r2qb5.jpg
http://img341.imageshack.us/my...njaongap35ds3r3gz4.jpg

There seems to be plenty enough room to mount an HR-05 - it's quite narrow. Question is, what about the VRM? With high ambient temperatures (up to 35C outside the case, sometimes even higher in the summer), and OCed Q6600 that can pull upwards of 150W under load, will VRM be fine without heatsinks, or would the extra $50 that DS4 costs be money well spent?

 

[5t3v0]

Are you reinstalling Windows from scratch? If not, you should be able to setup RAID for a non boot disk without reinstalling. If you didn't enable AHCI you can use IDE RAID. Connect the 2 drives to the purple ports. In BIOS Integrated Peripherals, change "Onboard SATA/IDE Device" to Enabled and "Onboard SATA/IDE Ctrl Mode" to RAID/IDE. Save & reboot & press CTRL-G & follow the setup process to set up your desired array. Save & reboot to Windows. Install the Gigabyte SATA driver.

 

[imported_MikeyS]

Hey folks im new to this forum, I've just recently bought a new computer with a Q6600 CPU, a Thermaltake V1 CPU cooler and Gigabyte p35c-ds3r motherboard, inside a Gigabyte Aurora 570 case.
I'm a bit worried about the motherboard/system temperatures I'm getting.

after running the computer (idle) for about 45 minutes, CPU temperature is about 23-26C, which is fine, but the System temperature goes about to 52C, which I'm sure isn't normal, I also opened up the case's left door so it'll get some more Air from the outside, and still, the temperatures are fly high.
Can it be something else? like something I can tell from the bios? memories timing? I'm not really an hardware expert so I can't really tell...

Your help will be much appreciated

Mikey.