Forward: official GIGA 965P-S3/DS3/DS4/DQ6 beta BIOS

You set it to 100 manually to lock it there.Auto does not lock it.It will drift when you overclock from stock speeds.How far will it drift with auto?I have no idea.But you will probably just lock up the computer after awhile because the pcie went to high.But that's what the lock is for.So only the FSB goes up and not the pcie.You could probably even damage the video card if you ran it to high for a long enough amount of time.I always lock mine at 100 and don't seem to have any problems getting a high overclock.
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Why would auto drift? There's no good reason to have an 'auto' if it's just going to waft around - have you checked your PCIe frequency? Saying that it locks at 100MHz is all very well, but what makes you think that's not what auto does? It's certainly what it does with DFI boards, for example.
Also, if setting it at 100 somehow locks it at 100, how does it do that without using the same divider method as the auto ability?

I'd be interested to know why they don't use async (static) clocks for the PCIe/PCI like some manufacturers (used?) to with nforce boards; performance reasons?

I would love to see what it's truly at...

Well you kinda answered your own question... on Auto it uses a divider to determin the frequency, when you set it you lock it. It's like many MANY of the other MB makers (asus, and abit from personal experiance) On auto the system AUTOMATICALLY determins the frequency based on dividers OR you can lock it to what every you want.

That would require two clock generators (AFAIK) - either the one for the FSB is used and a divider applied, or an independent one for the PCIe is used; it's either one or the other.

And? It used to be a HUGE feature on OCing boards to be able to do both divisor method AND locked method. Now its common place, hell i remember having people get excited about the old ABIT boards that could do that like 3-4 years ago. Before that it was what people would :banana::banana::banana::banana::banana: about cause thier PCI cards went out of spec when OCing.

Any new beta bios for the DQ6 yet?

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...hell i remember having people get excited about the old ABIT boards that could do that like 3-4 years ago.

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NF7 > all :clap:

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NF7 > all :clap:

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Still have my NF7 with box and all standing together with all my other MB boxes i own :toast:

Soki...any new bios files?

No... :)

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NF7 > all :clap:

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KR7A ftw (I know this is the intel forum :p)

just wondering.. anyone with G.SKILL (2 x 1GB) DDR2 800 RAM? (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820231065 I currently have GoodRAM PRO DDR2 800 and it doesen't work with FSB over 405MHz. I tried the latest F5c BIOS and still no fix.. :( Any comments on how much the overclock on the DS3?

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No... :)

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! :(

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just wondering.. anyone with G.SKILL (2 x 1GB) DDR2 800 RAM? (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820231065 I currently have GoodRAM PRO DDR2 800 and it doesen't work with FSB over 405MHz. I tried the latest F5c BIOS and still no fix.. :( Any comments on how much the overclock on the DS3?

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With loose timings you can get them to 500+

Hi guys!
Will a Coolink u8-120-1600 fit on a ds4?

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just wondering.. anyone with G.SKILL (2 x 1GB) DDR2 800 RAM? (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820231065 I currently have GoodRAM PRO DDR2 800 and it doesen't work with FSB over 405MHz. I tried the latest F5c BIOS and still no fix.. :( Any comments on how much the overclock on the DS3?

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I think you'll find the majority of people posting here are using this ram, myself included (prev. stable @ 425, boot at well over that)

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Hi guys!
Will a Coolink u8-120-1600 fit on a ds4?

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People are mounting Scythe Ninja's, Big Typhoons, etc. The Coolink doesn't look to be much bigger in area. I think I even saw a Tuniq Tower 120 (similar size), but not sure about that.

DS4 has the 'crazy cool' heatspreader on the back right? If so, most people remove it. I didn't. Refer to:
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...91&postcount=6
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...4&postcount=10

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People are mounting Scythe Ninja's, Big Typhoons, etc. The Coolink doesn't look to be much bigger in area. I think I even saw a Tuniq Tower 120 (similar size), but not sure about that.

DS4 has the 'crazy cool' heatspreader on the back right? If so, most people remove it. I didn't. Refer to:
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...91&postcount=6
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...4&postcount=10

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I have a Infinity on mine, no plate removal involved on the DQ6.

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I have a Infinity on mine, no plate removal involved on the DQ6.

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There's no backplate on the Infinity (at least, can't see one in the pictures), therefore no complications with mounting obstructed by Crazy Cool, protruding pins on the back, etc.

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I think you'll find the majority of people posting here are using this ram, myself included (prev. stable @ 425, boot at well over that)

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Thanx to all, I need a confirmation before ordering.. time to dump this POS GoodRAM PRO..

But it's such GOOD RAM Yuck Yuck Yuck :D

the DS3 does NOT like Micron D9 chips.
i think its bull crap.
i dont know whats so different about these chips that it dont like them but the ocz 6400 XTC can run over 1000+ mhz but most anyone with teamgroup D9 or gskill D9 ram cant go over 950mhz dram.

its really sucky too cuz its totally limiting the dfreaking dram speeds.

i have notified gigabyte of this and of course got the same bullsh|t answer i always do from those jerk offs "we dont have any problems" yeah bullcrap you aint even testing it with D9.
its like when they tried to tell me they didnt have any issues with IDE dvd rom running in PIO mode. except for the fact that ever picture they showed me clearly without a doubt showed they didnt even have a dvd drive hooked up to the motherboard so yayyy they got some really good liars working for them.

i also notified kenofstephens too but he hasnt replied.

i personally doubt it will get fixed. but then again the P5B just got a bios update that fixed dram issues at 1000mhz too so maybe gigabyte will learn something since asus ownz them now.

Lestat,

here you go.

F5e beta:

http://rapidshare.de/files/31396295/965pds3.f5e.html

does that fix the issue or is it a pointless bios release?