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I've just had to flash back to f7 from the new f8. f8 wouldn't hold my overclock from either a cold start or a restart. It also took 4 attempts before the in-BIOS flasher could find the f7 file on the floppy and even then it came up with a master boot record error.
I can't believe this pile of crap could be released as a final BIOS.
I just got a DS3 Rev.2, bought to replace my now dead DS3 Rev.1 C2 (~480Mhz FSB stable).
Will you keep you updated.
By the way, it's no longer called GA-965P-DS3, just 965P-DS3, if that makes a difference :p:
That is the slow migration to asus.Quote:
Originally Posted by MACMAC
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Originally Posted by Cob
So basically the cold boot issues aren't fixed...cool you saved me swapping boards and reinstalling OS.
Thanks! :)
You only have 1 gig of RAM. Try 2GB and let us know hiw it goes.
Anyway, I'm in VT for the holidays and can't try the amazing new F8. I just can'lt wait to try it and immediately go back to F4 as usual.Quote:
Originally Posted by The_Hardstylez
it's LL, here is the part# PDC22G6400LLK. was $227.99 when i got it now is $276 with a $40 rebate. man memory is high right now......Quote:
Originally Posted by HamidFULL
hi
what is the best bios ds4 for goodram pro d9 memory ??
if any bios correcting problems in overclocking goodram pro d9 at this motherboard ?
sorry for my bad english...
thanks
I can confirm that the C2 board revisions (not the new 2.0 versions) also have the 450MHz ceiling. :stick:Quote:
Originally Posted by Battleneter
You guys with the 450 Mhz ceiling are running into something other than the boards. CPU or Memory maxes maybe. My DS3 is a C2 and I can hit 515, my Asus P5B-E is a C1 and does 515 as well....Quote:
Originally Posted by davidos
now I've had 4 other C2Ds that had just miserable overclocking experiences with. One that would NOT do anything over 450 Mhz stable - it was MadMikeSS chip, we always figured it was the board but I took it and put it on my p5b and I hit the same limit. He finally changed to another 6400 and is now doing 490 on the same board.
I can confirm there is no chipset ceiling at 450 mhz with the right CPU and a c2 chipset.
These were done on the DS3 -
http://www.3dxtreme.net/other/GB%20DS3/3611-1.425v.jpg
http://www.3dxtreme.net/other/GB%20DS3/3570-1.40v.jpg
This morning since it was cold(er) then it has been in awhile I decided to try and break the 500Mhz mark with my DS3/e6300 F8i FW, C1 combo. Ambient temp was about 18c. The cpu temp with TAT was showing 38/39c, it's usually closer to 43/44c. This combo will normally run at 490/3420 1:1 ratio and would crash at around 497. On a 4:5 ratio I can reach 585-590Mhz on the ram This morning I was able to get in up to 503Mhz before it froze on the 1:1 ratio. Increasing the Vcore above 1.325 volts actually makes it lock up sooner. The point of all this is I don't really think it's the mobo limiting the oc, I think it's probably the cpu's. Has someone taken a cpu known to overclock over 500Mhz on another brand mobo and not had it overclock as well on a Gigabyte using the same PSU,RAM ambient temp, etc.?
Edit: I see DNottis posted the answer to my question the same time I posted it. With his wc setup his load TAT temps are the same as my air cooled temps at idle.
OC vary great with CPU, i've seen some C2D not go beyond 400mhz OC, but on same system same stepping CPU would hit 3.5ghz easy. Just luck
I pulled this info from the Creative Forum. In the meantime I e-mailed Gigabyte to verify that this works.
If you have an X-FI card. First get it to work.
Once it works go into the device manager and find out what IRQ it is using Hopefully something under 15.
If it is you can go into the BIOS and reserve that IRQ for that PCI slot. That should stop the X-FI from disappearing.
I think the crackleing sound has something to do with either the PCI latency or the PCIe buss overclocking and taking the PCI bus with it on the ride.
Either way people whom have set thier PCIe bus to 100mhz and reserved their X-FI's IRQ seem not to have any problems with their X-FI cards.
Hopefully Gigabyte finishes thier work on the F8 Bios and we don't have to wait for F9 to get things right.
F8 is final and on the gigabyte.com.tw website ;) So if F8 didnt work - you are waiting for F9.Quote:
Originally Posted by mackintire
I only see F7 for the DQ6. :stick:
http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Support/M...me=GA-965P-DQ6
can You help me ?Quote:
Originally Posted by 05_03_1992
The F8 final is for the DS3 only at this stage.Quote:
Originally Posted by mackintire
The F8 works about the same for me on my DS3 Rev 1 (C2 chipset). Can do about 3.5G on all three of my CPUs (6300, 6400, 6600). Never did have the power problems as described by others. My first DS3 Rev 1 (C1 chipset) died shortly after loading F8i (wouldn't post anymore). I am leaving the 6600 installed running 360M X 9 (3.24G) at Normal 1.25V. At idle it drop to 1.17V and runs just above ambient temp.
I also bought a 965G-DS3 (by accident) when the 965P-DS3 failed. This is my backup machine w a 6400 running no OC. Can go up to about 310M or so before the SATAs start dropping out.
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Originally Posted by dnottis
The magic part of your post is "C2". You are assuming a Asus C1 is built EXACTLY the same as Gigabyte C1, this assumption is probably incorrect.
From my point of view at least, I eliminated both CPU and Ram as the cause of the ceiling. As I stated before with C2 it seem almost guaranteed (not everyone, may be other factors) to go over 450FSB (Gigabyte DS3 or S3 I am talking).
Your missing the point tho... I was able to hit the exact same FSB on both a C1 and C2...so my limitation at 516 Mhz is my CPU. As most others would be running into...and yes I've seen CPUs that top at at 350 FSB and 450 FSB. So a low overclock MAY be the result of the CPU.Quote:
Originally Posted by Battleneter
Did some more testing and tweaking today. Got up to 425mhz FSB (8x multi) after doing some serious memtest tweaking and testing. At 428mhz FSB I couldn't complete superpi 2m. Was using +.1v FSB, +.1v MCH, +.2v vdimm, +.1v PCI-e, CPU 1.425v, the big thing was the memset settings. I checked back to my SS's of my 15.5 sec superpi run on my P5W DH and went over the memset settings. Apparently the S3 is booting the tRRD (Act to Act) at 3 when running 5-5-5-15... Set it to 7, switched up a couple other things and gave me an extra 20mhz. Still tweaking away until I break 500mhz, but it may require some new hardware ;)
Anyone know where the chipset diode/thermostat is located? Seems like it's actually under on the northbridge rather then the southbridge, as my temps go down when I threw a fan on the NB...
Should I throw a 40mm fan on the SB? It's getting as hot as the NB without a fan...
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Originally Posted by dnottis
Accept in "My" case I lowered the multiplier to (6) so my CPU was at 2.7 gig and it still froze/won't post past 450FSB (fine up to about 445)
Do you want to comment on thats specifically?
Also you have not tested on a gigabyte DS3 C1, you stated Asus C1? (if I got that correct, that is not a valid comparison even remotely)
Ive been looking here, where can i find the latest BIOS or beta BIOS in this thread lol
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500MHz fsb on DS3 F8i is possible. I didn't run any stress tests, I just wanted to see if it would run at 500MHz when it's cold. Second image is the memory maxed out. Obviously that was done on a hotter day which is often in Texas. ;)
I think this shows that it's most likely the CPU's that are the limiting factor.
http://img325.imageshack.us/img325/5...desktopyz2.jpg
http://img268.imageshack.us/img268/8...esktopjem0.jpg
My X-Fi is on irq 19, and I'm hitting 476 fsb, no problems with the X-Fi at all...c2 board...man is any problem consistent with this board??Quote:
Originally Posted by mackintire