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why u said F8 is good for crappy weeks cpu? cause mine is the crappies E6600 i ever seen , cant pass 3.3 , tryed 2 diferent boards allready, i still have my DS3 and im thinking seriously of going back to it , not very happy with this 680I , i was more stable with my DS3Quote:
Originally Posted by ScythedBlade
What do you think the probability is that Gigabeyte will let us RMA under warranty because of this resistor issue (limiting overclocks of D9 RAM)?
I'm going to call them tommorow too.
"they dont guarentee overclocks"
and wtf good does it do to rma the baord,, all your gunna get is the same crappy baord back.
they wont fix your baord so it works and then send it back.. they dont even have a working baord.. so what do you think the purpose of rma'ing it would be ?
LoL, I see your point. I was hoping for one of the new DS3P boards in return :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Lestat
However isn't that "resistor problem" a defect in the motherboard. It would seem they would have to honor a repair? (Okay maybe this is wishful thinking:rolleyes: )
You know I love this board, but eventually I know I'm going to want to tweak the memory with some good D9s.
Umm...I'm running 4x1GB 4-4-4, no problemo.Quote:
Originally Posted by Janne2
DS3 Rev.2 stock F7 bios.
I must say this board is extremely stable, no cold boot issues, and fantastic rails compared to my DS3 Rev.1 C2.
However...it is RIDICULOUSLY slow compared to my first board. I don't know if it's a driver issue due to the fact that I didn't reinstall XP when I switched boards, but I getting 19.X seconds in SuperPI 1MB at 3.44Ghz(8x430), memory 1:1 5-4-4 :stick:
Personally - I think there is a nice royal :banana::banana::banana::banana:-up happening with the @bios revision numbers and links quoted/offered allover ...............Quote:
Originally Posted by dnottis
Downloading/installing "1.01D" gets me a thing called "B06.0721.01" appearing in the "add/remove programs list" ....................... yet you can download a thing called "B6.1124.1" from the "Europe" server only (11:18 GMT+2) that actually says its installing "B6.1124.1" but that gets listed as "B06.0721.01" in the "add/remove programs" list:confused: :fact:
............and then when you actually run @bios, it says it is "1.10g" in the splurge during startup - MERDE!
Wish these people would all get their fingers out of the holes they keep them in and start talking sense.:slapass:
Where did you buy that? Does the rev 2 C2 have the same "resistor problem" that impedes D9 OC's with the board?Quote:
Originally Posted by MACMAC
My revision 2.0 of the DQ6 gets shipped by UPS tomorrow, they didn't ship it on the 23rd as promised, so i should have it January 2nd. I'll go over the mobo with fine tooth comb and see what is different from ver. 1.0 - 2.0.
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Originally Posted by Phosphate
ds3p <> ds3.
there is
ds3 1.0
ds3 2.0
ds3p 2.0
As said before, ds3p is a completely different board, with a completely different pricing scheme, look at newegg its like 60 bux more or something like that. thats like returning your oddyssey to honda under lemon laws and try to get them to give you the s2000 back.
Ive got:
c2 rev2.0 ds3 on f7 bios +1mch,+1fsb
e6400 now thats @3.3ghz (418mhz fsb) and 1.45v rock stable, all power options enabled.
ocz platinum rev 2 2x1gb 800mhz ram @1:1 836mhz 4-4-4-14
Im thinking reading this far that Ill try the f8 final bios soon and see what I can get out of it if anything at all. seem to have hit a wall @ 418 which is ragged edge. 1-2mhz above that and I start failing orthos on stock f7.
2 days ago @bios 1.10G was available on the asia and europe server, the file is an self-extract (rar) executable.Quote:
Originally Posted by LvR
I had to uninstall the 1.01D, modify didn't nothing. B06.0721.01 was still appearing in the add/remove programs list, and in the about it was still the 1.10D.
Now I have B06.1124.1 in the add/remove programs list and 1.10G in the about.
By now, at a high-volume e-tailer, any DS3 you buy should be a Rev.2.Quote:
Originally Posted by Phosphate
My Rev.1 could also do Cas 4 with 4GB, and even 500MHz using a divider, but not 1:1. I'm using D9 'Fatbody' by the way.
No clue if the resistor problem has been fixed, but I can say that nearly every resistor, capacitator, and ferrite coil is a different type and location than my Rev.1 C2 board.
Lol you program in pascal or something? I haven't seen <> in foreverQuote:
Originally Posted by tastyratz
Hmm, I really wish I shut down more often so that I can gauge this start issue with F8. Too bad I never do
No cold boot issues here on a Rev.1 C1 DS3. I used to have that problem with the F3 bios or so, but since then it's been resolved. F8 clocks better than F7 too! I can hit 490 x 7 on my e6600, whereas I'm limited to the 450 range with F7. Ram holding me back!
Yea, it's better but the start up issue with holding an OC is still there. It took about 10 boot ups to rear it's ugly head - but it was one time too many at this point!!Quote:
Originally Posted by ziddey
Were you able to exchange boards? Or did you just sell and buy the rev 2 later?Quote:
Originally Posted by MACMAC
Hmmmm.....I will have to see how these Rev 2 boards do. I may call Gigabyte also to confirm if this Rev has the faulty Resistor. I may also just wait and see how the DS3 does with an E4300.
To TastyRatz, Yeah I notcied the DS3P essentially looks like a DQ-6 without the extra cooling bits.
Sorry m8s I've changed teams :) Made free exchange to PBB deluxe/wifi (my friend have problems with it and Corsair dominator), so i leave this beautiful tread and get rid of waiting "The magic, new BIOS"
Till now i haven't any problems with ASUS and the thing, that droves me crazy - after power on , resets and all kind of overclock disables, are gone away .
Wish you all luck and let the new bios be so good, like you all want to be ;)
Merry Christmas !!! :clap:
Hi all, first post by a noob to this board. :toast:
I just upgraded my system with the DS3 Rev.1 C1 version mobo and thought I was updating to the F8 but got the F7 using the wacky Gigabyte software. :shrug: Board came with F3.
With my E6400 I am able to run 400x8 stable as far as I can tell using 1.35v on the cpu... haven't tried higher or lower voltages yet although I hope lower volts work because it idles a bit warmer than I would like although it's definitely within spec. This is with Corsair XMS2 PC2-6400 RAM at 5-5-5-12 running at it's rated speed. It was a very easy and painless overclock.
My biggest issue is needing to do a clean install of windows and get an SATA HD. I did a repair XP install on my IDE drive and finally beat windows into submission :slapass: but it's definitely slowing me down until I clean off a drive and do a proper full install. I figure I might as well get an SATA HD before I mess with re-installing everything although I am cheap and will probably just format an IDE HD and then do the clean install.
Looking at responses in this thread and my initial good luck with my board is telling me that I should probably stick with the F7 for now. Why fix what ain't broke? :up:
don't know if my week is good or not, but i know the F8 IS NOT!! just endless reboots until i went back to F7. absolutely terrible build for waiting this long. hope it wooks great on the rev. 2, since we seem to be left behind!!.... i did run F8i for a while and it seemed ok, don't know what happened tween 8i and final that F'd it up so much...Quote:
Originally Posted by ScythedBlade
Actually running Orthos Blend right now in the background at 400x8 with my E6400 and stock voltage.
Decided to try and make the night with this running so I could post in the Conroe O/C thread. Shouldn't be a problem as both cores are around 56c under load. :cool:
Considering how awesome this board has been for me I'm not sure if I would swap it for a Rev2 or not. Hard to argue with what works really good! :banana:
is there really a big difference between the DS3 C1, and C2? is it worth buying?
New Intel Matrix Storage Manager, ver. 6.2.1.2002:
http://www.station-drivers.com/page/intel%20raid.htm
C1 and C2 mean little- rev.1 or rev.2 is the main thing.I have rev.1 and C2 mobo.Somebody having rev.2 maybe give some info about max overclocks with 100% stability.Running now 8x415mhz and 100% stable.Older cpu-s had a very exact point to where they could be overclocked- about 10-30mhz precise and it was stable and seems like conroe class has a very blurry point.You may have same stability problems from 3,3ghz and 3,5ghz regardless your voltage and timings.My recomendation is- clock down and its becoming far more stable.Ofcourse there will allways be those 3,8ghz 100% stable air cooling fellows but let it be..Quote:
Originally Posted by gooface
First post, but I've been watching this thread for a while. I have an S3 C1 and a 6300 with 2x512mb gskill hz's. With my first cpu I was unable to go any higher than 404FSB. I got a new cpu and have maxxed out the fsb to 533:D . I have not been able to stress test since I have stock cooling. The highest I've stressed it with dual prime is 475x6 2850mhz. So far rock stable. I bought two more s3's and they both were the worst boards I've ever worked with, constant bsod's and never even got windows installed before I had to ship them back for p5b-e's. I love mine, but won't be buying gigabyte in the future. btw I'm usung f8i and it's great. No jmicron issues no x-fi issues, overall I'm very happy.
The reason I'm posting is I can't seem to get my memory to run at 1000mhz 4-4-4-12 even at 2.3v. Can anybody help me with these extra memory timing options? I'm coming from an athlonxp 3000+ nforce2 ddr 3200 mem system so I'm clueless wwhen it comes to ddr2.
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Originally Posted by gooface
Nope, I have a C2 and mine loses the OC occaisionally on a cold boot. It will run my 6300 @ 515 x7 but so does my P5B-E (without the loss of my OC on a cold start).
My rev.1 c2 DS3 is 370x9, 450x7 and 415x8 with e6600 1,475v 100% stable.People do uninstall easy tune 5- its linked to bios and makes some problems in games and stability at all.I have not experienced cold boot for 24h after i uninstalled east tune and hold back my clocks to a reasonable rate.Clocking within windows with other utility than ET 5 is possibility but is there any 100% proved utility?If i make 418x8 in bios i get cold boot problem within 1 hour.Is setfsb really trusted utility to overclock?