GigaByte DS3, DS4 and DQ6 memory thread

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Originally Posted by Richard Dower

http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc?id=119026


I'm Orthos Prime stable now for 6 hours and 4 mins.

:-)


OK!...like i know if crap compared to the guys doing 3.4Ghz or more, but i have TRIED to get this board to POST at 400MHz FSB...just will not work.

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Have you set the mem devider to 2?
Have you disabled all the options in the 2nd tab?
Have you raised mch .1?
I had a hardtime going past 450 before I did all this, Ive been as high as 471 1:1 but crashes made me lower it down to 466 1:1 which im quite happy with.. for now..

Quoe crazy john..
[Q] What should I do to overclock more? – a fsbwall
[A] First of all Disable all special features in bios, if you don’t use LPT, disable it. The chipset would very appreciate you not to have to be working so hard Then Disable in Advanced BIOS Features everything starting from Limit CPUID Max to 3, ending at Virtualization Technology (including these two mentioned). Then at Integrated Peripherals disable Legacy USB storage detect – it’s an option which is required only if you have na USB hard drive. Set PCIe to 100Mhz, timings to 5-5-5-15 (or other high timings your mem is working with), set x2 for mem speed, set +0.1V for MCH, set 1.5V (or higher) for CPU – to see if it’s not a cpu fault. You may also disable everything under PC Health Status menu... Finally, unplug all USB devices. Hope it helps! If no (for those >450fsb) it means the system overlockability has ended or mother board doesn’t like so much your ram or vga... Try then borrowing, and replacing to see if it works...

Tried a 1:1 devider, set PCI-E clock to 100MHz..raised MCH by as much as 0.4V...no joy.

did you disable all those features?
tried newer bios?

No new bios to update to, i'm using F4d...if someone has something more recent i'd love to try it. BTW...i'm now Orthos dual prime stable for 10 hours.

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DS4 F4c with TeamGroup PC2-5300 3-3-3-8 D9GMH:

First set didn't post -> DOA -> RMA -> replaments post at 1.8V stock timings.
Now ORTHOS prime stable at DDR900 4-4-4-10.

ANy chance to see a memory devider lower that 1/1 so we poor ppl with DDR2-5300 (667) can see some improvement to our CPus

can anybody pls point out the difference between GIGABYTE GA-965G-DS3 & GA-965P-DS3 ?

apart from onboard video,is there any differecne between the two ? ... on lines of performance ?

TYPE: 2 x 512 MB D9 GoodRam PRO, DS3 BOARD, F5 final
MAX: max stable 405 4-5-5-8, Orthos(20hours),SuperPI(32M),MemTest(10runs) stable
BOOT?: no problem with booting @F2 and up (F2 was stock on my MB)

COMMENT: I expected a little more from this memory, max I could do was 405, ordered G.SKILL 2GB HZ kit to replace this POS :) 475*7 (I have E6300..) should be enough for my needs with the G.SKILL

COMMENT_2: Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease, can people continue to submit ONLY their RAM testing results? We could have another memory discussion thread instead, this one should be only for testing results..

TYPE: 2 x 1024 MB Mushkin XP2 @ DS4 @ F4 BIOS

MAX: 485 4-4-4-10 PI M32 stable 2.05 V
BOOT?: boots no problem run it 24/7 with 4:5 divider

COMMENT: 100% stable have not tried higher speeds or lower timings since the processor cooling seems to be the bottleneck and I wanna go 1:1. Now I´ll just wait for my NB and CPU block.

EDIT: The system now runs with stock aircooling.

DS3 F5e
Team Xtreem DDR2-667 5-6-6-17 (forgot to change it to manual 4-4-4-12)
working fine at 740mhz, priming now (need to go higher in fairness)
no problems after a BIOS update yet
E6600 @ 1.49v RAM at 2.4v on a 1:1 divider (no increase to any voltages in the BIOS aside from CPU and RAM)
I think the ram is D9 but im not 100% sure

UPDATE (same as previous post for setup)

Fails prime above 390mhz (so far, im reducing it now)
memory runing at 780mhz

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Originally Posted by Dirt

TYPE: 2 x 1024 MB Mushkin XP2 @ DS4 @ F4 BIOS

MAX: 485 4-4-4-10 PI M32 stable 2.05 V
BOOT?: boots no problem run it 24/7 with 4:5 divider

COMMENT: 100% stable have not tried higher speeds or lower timings since the processor cooling seems to be the bottleneck and I wanna go 1:1. Now I´ll just wait for my NB and CPU block.

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NB and SB temp is your problem? How much is your NB and SB temp?
DS4 seem be very cool

Primed @ 385 happily for 20 minutes, going to reduce multi, up vMch a little in the BIOS and go higher (seems CPU is the reason it fails prime)

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Originally Posted by HamidFULL

NB and SB temp is your problem? How much is your NB and SB temp?
DS4 seem be very cool

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I think that could be the problem. I run into brick wall @ 8x390 no matter what Voltage but the memory seems to clock like mad. 8x390 boots but 8x400 is a no go to boot at but works if I change to it in Windows.

We´ll se what happens when I finish my the work on the new waterblocks.

Dont know about the temperatures of NB and SB but according to EasyTune5 the CPU is pending between 55-59C and "System" reports 40C after 15minutes of Orthos Beta. Cooling all stock.

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Now I tried to set the PCIe to 100 that was set to auto before changed the mem voltage fron 2,05 to 2,2 and it boots @ 8x400 without problem? Kind of stange. Seems like this board is very sensetive to the setings. Tried to set up the speed even further with EasyTune and ran super Pi M1 @ 8x420 17.235sek. a 16sek run would be nice but I will need better cooling for that.

If anyone happens to have 4x 1GB stick available to confirm this, please post...

I have two DS3 boards, one has an e6400 one has a e6300. I have 6 sticks of G.Skill 6400 HZ, and 4 Corsair 6400C4. Even at all stock speeds and defaults, I can use 3 DIMMs just fine, but if I put 4 DIMMs onthe board, the machines slow to a crawl... from the memory count portion of the post all the way through windows.

Unbelievably slow, like 486 slow. I've tried f3, f4, f5 and f6a BIOSes... all with the same result. I've tried relaxing timing, upping voltage, etc.

The boards work fine and are perfectly overclockable as expected with up to 3 of the DIMMs. But anytime that 4th DIMM is present, it may as well be a 486.

Anyone have 4 1gb sticks available to try it out?

Hi I have found something weird with the DS3 and bioses.

I used to have an F3 bios but flashed it to f4 and f5 hoping for higher fsb and such. But however even at 400 fsb, i would only be prime stable for 4-6 hours (this is at 1.38 vcore, 2.1vdimm, 4-4-4-12, everything else normal voltage).

However I remember that I used to have prime stability for 14 hours before and that's when I was using the f3 bios. So I switched back and now I'm 16hrs + stable with the exact same settings before as F4/f5 bioses.

This leads me to believe that there are hidden ram timings in bioses that offer stability or lack thereof (this does not include the Ctrl+f1 options that are made available to us). I wish I know what these ram settings are so I can repeat them in the f4/f5 bioses.

Does anybody with the patriot ram experience this same issue?

Today I mounted watercooling to the CPU (NB comes on tomorrow) suddenly all my stability problems to get stability (Orthos Large) at 8x400 is gone. Before it ran about 5minutes and then an error accured now it runs for ever. Dont know about the booting issues though but I guess they can not be connected to the cooling.

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Originally Posted by jello

If anyone happens to have 4x 1GB stick available to confirm this, please post...

I have two DS3 boards, one has an e6400 one has a e6300. I have 6 sticks of G.Skill 6400 HZ, and 4 Corsair 6400C4. Even at all stock speeds and defaults, I can use 3 DIMMs just fine, but if I put 4 DIMMs onthe board, the machines slow to a crawl... from the memory count portion of the post all the way through windows.

Unbelievably slow, like 486 slow. I've tried f3, f4, f5 and f6a BIOSes... all with the same result. I've tried relaxing timing, upping voltage, etc.

The boards work fine and are perfectly overclockable as expected with up to 3 of the DIMMs. But anytime that 4th DIMM is present, it may as well be a 486.

Anyone have 4 1gb sticks available to try it out?

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Ok... two people have confirmed this for me with different memory (OCZ and Patriot). Clearly the DS3 has a bug with 4x 1GB DIMMs... not sure if it does the same thing with 4x 512's.

FYI...

Started a new thread regarding OC on the DS4, since don´t think this thread was ment for discussing anything else then memory compatiblity: http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=115410

Hi everyone i have E6300 + DS3 + 2*1 G.SKILL 6400. I can't boot over 7*389. I read all the topcs and done all the things told. But still the same. Can it be the CPU or Mobo or RAM?

It could be a lot of things.

1. BIOS settings, main culprit, ensure to turn off any throttling features like C1E/EIST etc.

2. Try turning PCI-E freq to 105mhz

3. Volages, you'll probably need a little more to chipset, FSB & CPU.

4. Set ram timings manually, including extra voltage if needed.

5. UPDATE that BIOS! (I use F5)

6. NB overheating, I had this problem, strapped a fan to it and no probs now.

7. CPU may just not be a good clocker, or its overheating.

These boards are NOT the easiest to OC, but once you have them set correctly, they can fly

Hi guys,

Any known incompatiblity issues between the Gigabyte 965P-DS4 and OCZ PC2-6400 Platinum XTC Rev.1 mems? I am getting the DS4 later. Thanks!

No problems here with 4x1gb DIMMs on a DS3+E6300. Currently at 425FSB for 2.975GHz. I haven't bothered trying to take it higher than this.

Oh... F4 BIOS.

What kind of 1:1 clocks are you guys getting with ocz gold 6400 2 x 1GB?

DS3/4 + OCZ = Crappy!