Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3, Pretty good start

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Originally Posted by mursaat

Well this board was my choice, but seeing you cannot set mem lower than 1:1 is a shame. I planned to get a E6400 and get the highest FSB possible (485x8 :D). But no way I'm going to buy DDRII1000... it costs around 400€.

I did the maths, and the average gain from 2MB to 4MB is a mere 3,5%, and the highest is a 10%. Taken from anandtech:

http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets...spx?i=2795&p=4

So, with a 100€ less CPU you can get around 3.8-3.9ghz, which is around a 6-8% more mhz than a E6600 400x9. So things balance, and I can use these 100€ for the RAM. Hmm choices choices, what to do? I guess I'll keep reading, as neither mobos or Conroes are still for sale in Spain.

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maybe some of the other guys can shed some light on things. and ill go home and update to the F3 bios. right now i only have the F3 beta

dont kill thi smobo yet man this a killer board. like i said im @ 400 with default mch ich and front side bus pci-e is @ 100 pci is @ 33.3 and pci-e voltage is at auto also. vcore is 1.3 though as i wanted to rule out any issues of the cpu puking out.

the board has the option to drop down to ... uhmmm... 667 ram but i dont think it does 533 which would allow me to go way more on the fsb.

dont walk away from the bord cuz of that.
if you go to tankguys.com and buy the teamgroup ddr667 its 187 bucks and it will hit 1000+ mhz on 2.2-2.4v that ram is perfect for this board.
im ordering some tommorrow i think.

I bought the g-skill f2-6400-phu2-2gbhz 0606 stuff. There was ram for less but with mail in rebates, which I never end up turning in to bother waiting 6 months for them, so I just spent an extra 35 bucks and got the good stuff.

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Originally Posted by dissident

I bought the g-skill f2-6400-phu2-2gbhz 0606 stuff. There was ram for less but with mail in rebates, which I never end up turning in to bother waiting 6 months for them, so I just spent an extra 35 bucks and got the good stuff.

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Same memory I picked up. Still deciding on the DS3 though. Its probably my only choice atm becuase I have a 7950gx2 waiting for this new board and proc and that card is pretty much only confirmed to work on this board and none of the other 965 boards.

I'm hoping its compatible with the ds3.

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Originally Posted by K.I.T.T.

I'm hoping for 490 x 7 with my E6300 ES. My RAM can easily do DDR2 1000 4-4-4-8, so running it 1:1 = DDR2 980 :hrhr:

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holy crap ur ram can do that? why dont they just sell them as higher speed ram than......i wonder what mine can do but no testing hardware yet.

my g.skill is rated for 1.8v-2.0v would going high on the volts help the overclock for it?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820231051

http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc?id=106812
auto everything vcore @ 1.35 cpu-z shows 1.328 droop under load is about 0.025 which is cool

pretty funny how cpu-z readsd the voltages for this board but cant read the voltages for the big pile of sh|t p5w dh ...

i dont think it can do over 400fsb for E6600 or above chips, but easily 450, 480+fsb for 6300, 6400 ES5

i dont believe that
i think its all about the ram

the conroes demand very overclockable ram to be able to overclock them very far.

if your theory on 400mhz was true then my P5W DH hates the 6600 and higher chips also since this is exactly the same spot my P5W DH hit the wall also.

the 400 +/- i think is a farce from a bad chip or two or goofy ram.

how are you liking the board otherwise?

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Originally Posted by Lestat

i dont believe that
i think its all about the ram

the conroes demand very overclockable ram to be able to overclock them very far.

if your theory on 400mhz was true then my P5W DH hates the 6600 and higher chips also since this is exactly the same spot my P5W DH hit the wall also.

the 400 +/- i think is a farce from a bad chip or two or goofy ram.

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then change RAM and prove to me im wrong . I am eager to see someone hit 400fsb on DS3. I doubt u can do it even with better RAM. A 20Mhz OCing on ur RAM is nothing. Cuz i been to soo many sites, German, Chinese, French ... no one manage to do that (boot E6600 or above at 400+fsb on DS3)

which is exactly why I'm getting a e6400 :banana: :eek: :clap:

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Originally Posted by theteamaqua

then change RAM and prove to me im wrong . I am eager to see someone hit 400fsb on DS3. I doubt u can do it even with better RAM. A 20Mhz OCing on ur RAM is nothing. Cuz i been to soo many sites, German, Chinese, French ... no one manage to do that (boot E6600 or above at 400+fsb on DS3)

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d@rkn1ko :my DS3 with E6600 ES step5 max fsb stabe coeff 7x:)

I can boot @ 414 but no more ..

I think with it's possible to make more

clockgen don't work with the same pll as the giga dq6

http://membres.lycos.fr/m4inaction/c...46%20prime.jpg

hey moisterous have u tried retail chips yet?? dont mobo maker get everything b4 the rest of us? :)

also yeah u have to be hell of a good OCer + ideal platform in order to do that (what moisterous did)

PS: everything, teh 400+fsb i was talking about. They have to be done on tower 120, no wc/TEC/phase, With those its a different story

It's not me, it's d@rkn1ko. ;)

Good to see these results! I'll be perfectly happy at or near 400FSB with my E6600, OCZ XTC EL PC2 6400 and DS3!

Woohoo! Them retail chips better OC well!

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then change RAM and prove to me im wrong . I am eager to see someone hit 400fsb on DS3. I doubt u can do it even with better RAM. A 20Mhz OCing on ur RAM is nothing. Cuz i been to soo many sites, German, Chinese, French ... no one manage to do that (boot E6600 or above at 400+fsb on DS3)

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then you might want to check out the new thread dude...

read it and weep

It seems there is an issue with 9X multi, any E6700 owner here ?
To all conroe users : can you try 8X multi or 7X and do some FSB tests ?

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Originally Posted by Lestat

then you might want to check out the new thread dude...

read it and weep

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and i quote him :

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Originally Posted by PcCI2iminal

i have tryed 9x and max fsb @ 380 and i was thinking why chips with 7x like Allandale can hit 480+... L2 2mb ?imature bios?
i think the answer is the multiplier

vdimm @ + 0.5v :D

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so whats the point of going for high fsb when u lower multi ?? ur total clock is lower

let me rephrase what i said: has anyone manage to get over 3.6GHz on DS3 with E6600??

face it E6400 , 6300 + DS3 is the best combo

So no downward ratios/dividers?

Damn my RAM, can only reach 380MHz :/

max is at 433 I don't have screen :eek:

http://membres.lycos.fr/m4inaction/c...DS3/13.390.jpg

hey wow thats nice so can u reach.. is that the highest?? also is it at least 32m pi stable?? cuz i will be using this board with E6600

I'd be curious to compare this to an E6400 at 8x... can it go at a higher fsb then the E6600 at 8x because of less cache? I know someone said they got one to 480, but I'd like to see confirmation.

they already done 7x500 on E6300 and 480x8 on E6400 with DS3



but wait u have Asus P5W DH, i was talking about DS3 + E6600 +tower 120 and do over 3.6Ghz

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Originally Posted by theteamaqua

they already done 7x500 on E6300 and 480x8 on E6400 with DS3



but wait u have Asus P5W DH, i was talking about DS3 + E6600 and do over 3.6Ghz

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Look at the write over the ss.:fact:

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Originally Posted by d@rkn1ko

max is at 433 I don't have screen :eek:

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impressive man!

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Originally Posted by theteamaqua

and i quote him :



so whats the point of going for high fsb when u lower multi ?? ur total clock is lower

let me rephrase what i said: has anyone manage to get over 3.6GHz on DS3 with E6600??

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ive already done that and posted it several times

http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc.php?id=106812
and the point is.. even if the board cant hold too much above 400 on 9x thats ok cuz if you can drop the multi and increase the FSB your memory performance just goes way up.
400 isnt anything thats all auto also.

i dont see this lasting too long i imagine they may address this as the DQ6 has the same issues. and infact if you wanna be honest all the boards 975 and 965 have issues above 400 unless you mod the crap out of them, there ae only a rare 2 or 3 people who dont have to mod them and can achieve 450. thats very few and far between.
its something with this chipset not liking the cpu multiplier or.. just a straight up limitation of the chipset.

and another with the ram manually set to 5-5-5 cpu-z get quirky with the timings above stock for some reason. this is where we get into the the possibility of really loose chipset timings
http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc?id=106839

and 410 http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc?id=106841

woohoo finally got my E6300 ES step 5
gonna see how it goes with my ds3

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Originally Posted by Lestat

and 410 http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc?id=106841

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so is that the highest POST, windows bootable ??

have u tried any pi, prime??

Ive sayd this also in another topic : if you want a high fsb (+/- 500 mhz ) on a conroe bord, you need to get 1.85 to 1.9 Volt on the northbridge / MCH. :) , every 0.05V above the standard 1.65 V is a 7 / 8 mhz gain , see also http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu...o-e6300_8.html and http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=2797&p=3

" overclocking was outstanding, but we suspect that higher voltage adjustments on the MCH would allow even higher overclocks. The ASUS stops at 1.65V, while the Intel BadAxe goes on to 1.725V. We would welcome ASUS raising the top voltage on the MCH. There are reports that modding the ASUS to reach 1.9V MCH allows FSB overclocks to almost 500 instead of the current limit of around 440 to 450 FSB "

"But the North Bridge chip may get really hot, and even reach dangerous levels if the cooling solution is not efficient enough"

I think every board, even the cheap msi bastards can do 450 with enough juice in the hood :)

Anybody know`s what the max V on the northbridge / MCH is with the DS3 ?

edit : nice article : http://www.overclockers.com/tips00999/

on the BIOS it says +0.3v (btw does vfsb help??), so what default is like 1.5v or something?? then its 1.8v.

also u can go to 600fsb on this baord, but 1.6v vcore is useless. Many people can't boot when 1.6 vcore is selected, let along 2v!!

i just got mine and im running it with my celeron D, running great so far. i will try overclocking later

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Originally Posted by theteamaqua

on the BIOS it says +0.3v (btw does vfsb help??), so what default is like 1.5v or something?? then its 1.8v.

also u can go to 600fsb on this baord, but 1.6v vcore is useless. Many people can't boot when 1.6 vcore is selected, let along 2v!!

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I don't think you'll really need more than 1.6 for air or water. not like you'll really use phase on a entry level board :stick:

i cant boot without vmch +0.1v (again i am not sure if default is 1.5v) with Pentium D 920 at 4GHz 286fsb, but when i select +0.2v i was able to boot and quite stable actually

is there any way to change the command rate or is it done automatically?
still on F1 bios at the moment

haha, I just noticed the board isn't "FULL" atx but smaller..

does anyone know if clockgen works with this board?

edit: if it does, which PLL does it use?

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Originally Posted by ArcTan

does anyone know if clockgen works with this board?

edit: if it does, which PLL does it use?

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easy tuner works fine
up to 500+

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on the BIOS it says +0.3v (btw does vfsb help??), so what default is like 1.5v or something?? then its 1.8v.

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more vfsb = useless for me.
and just vmch seems to help

hh good to know. when i get my E6600 ill bare that in mind

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Originally Posted by Lestat

maybe some of the other guys can shed some light on things. and ill go home and update to the F3 bios. right now i only have the F3 beta

dont kill thi smobo yet man this a killer board. like i said im @ 400 with default mch ich and front side bus pci-e is @ 100 pci is @ 33.3 and pci-e voltage is at auto also. vcore is 1.3 though as i wanted to rule out any issues of the cpu puking out.

the board has the option to drop down to ... uhmmm... 667 ram but i dont think it does 533 which would allow me to go way more on the fsb.

dont walk away from the bord cuz of that.
if you go to tankguys.com and buy the teamgroup ddr667 its 187 bucks and it will hit 1000+ mhz on 2.2-2.4v that ram is perfect for this board.
im ordering some tommorrow i think.

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Ok thanks for the advice. That mem is the one with 3-3-3-8?

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Originally Posted by mursaat

Ok thanks for the advice. That mem is the one with 3-3-3-8?

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No the $187 stuff (now $190) is rated 3-4-4-8.

It seems that the 3-3-3-8 is similar but higher binned by OPB. That however costs $250

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Originally Posted by theteamaqua

so whats the point of going for high fsb when u lower multi ?? ur total clock is lower

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Well 480x8 is 3840 and 400x9 is 3600. It's a 6,666% more mhz, which kills the average 3.5% advantage from 4mb L2. And it's 100€ cheaper :cool:

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Originally Posted by Mikesta

No the $187 stuff (now $190) is rated 3-4-4-8.

It seems that the 3-3-3-8 is similar but higher binned by OPB. That however costs $250

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Well spanish webshops are a bit messed, can you clarify by TeamGroup codes please? are these TXDD2048M667HC5DC 168€ or TXDD2048M667HC3DC 231€?

These prices are from here: http://www.pez8.com/tiala/productLis...DDR2/-/pl.aspx
IMO the ones listed as "Promos chip" are the HC3 ones binned by OPB, but are wrongly listed as 3-4-4-8, right?

Here at bottom: http://www.izarmicro.net/catalogo/in...ria/Xtreem.htm
It's also messed because the same code(s) HC3, are listed as 3-3-3-8 for the 2x1GB set and 3-4-4-8 for 1x1GB and 2x512MB. And the HC5 are 5-5-5-15 Weird :stick:

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Originally Posted by PcCI2iminal

easy tuner works fine
up to 500+

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thanks
up to 410 fsb now

the HC3 stuff is what you want. $190 @ tankguys.

Hey guys do your DS3's make squealing noises when you run prime95??
Mine does :(
(Im running a celeron 2.6 @ 3600 with 1.45 vcore)

ArcTan: Those D9DCN do 3-3-3-X @ ddr720 with 2.2 volts (havent tested other voltages/speeds as i cant get past 180 fsb :D )

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Originally Posted by oohms

Hey guys do your DS3's make squealing noises when you run prime95??
Mine does :(
(Im running a celeron 2.6 @ 3600 with 1.45 vcore)

ArcTan: Those D9DCN do 3-3-3-X @ ddr720 with 2.2 volts (havent tested other voltages/speeds as i cant get past 180 fsb :D )

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my previous K8NS nforce 3 mobo makes squealing noises when I run prime95, most of gigabyte mobos make squealing noises underload, I don't know why

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Originally Posted by oohms

Hey guys do your DS3's make squealing noises when you run prime95??
Mine does :(
(Im running a celeron 2.6 @ 3600 with 1.45 vcore)

ArcTan: Those D9DCN do 3-3-3-X @ ddr720 with 2.2 volts (havent tested other voltages/speeds as i cant get past 180 fsb :D )

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nice work oohms. did you pick up all 6 sticks?

no squealing noises with my board
so far it's been priming the last few hours at 461 fsb with my step 5 E6300 ES
stock vcore and mch

nice seriously they need to put dividers in this thing and i am set. the only thing stoping me is my ram. and im not spending alot of money on ram anymore. maybe i should just save the trouble and look at the E6400 and/or wait for the E4xxx series.

A guy from Newegg mentioned here http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813128012

that you need the C1 stepping of the 965P-DS3 or it runs very hot (what does no EIST mean?), also his G Skill memory did not work with the 965P-DS3 (what does "No VIIV" mean?)

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Originally Posted by gundersausage

A guy from Newegg mentioned here http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813128012

that you need the C1 stepping of the 965P-DS3 or it runs very hot, also his G Skill memory did not work with the 965P-DS3, can anyone confirm this?

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wish he told us which gskill he had. cuz i have a pair or gskill.waiting for this board. and maybe it was user error and he had to bump the voltage up a lil to get it working right.

the guy mentioned he used ram with a red heatspreader.... the only thing matching his description is this...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820231071

I bought this stuff...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820231065

hope it works.

he said "no EIST" for the heat problem if it wasn't a C1 stepping

and "no VIIV" for the G Skill problem? what do those 2 terms mean?

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Originally Posted by dissident

the guy mentioned he used ram with a red heatspreader.... the only thing matching his description is this...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820231071

I bought this stuff...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820231065

hope it works.

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Hell yeah, I bought the 2nd one too because of the 4-4-4-12 timings and the fact that it was the cheaper than the 5-5-5-15 ones here in Australia

How hot is your northbridge?

mine is friggin insanely hot,, i mean at idle without a fan its VERY hot to the touch..

anyone who doesnt have a little 50mm or 40mm fan on their chipset go get one, dont let that chipset sit there without a fan on it.

This is gonna sound stupid, but under which menu in the BIOS can you change RAM timings?:p:

I can't be bothered searching the thread...I'm too tired :p:

Mine's running stock so far without any hitches. Finished installing XP a few mins ago. Will post some results tomorrow.

Isn't it Ctrl-F1 @ POSTor something?

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Originally Posted by Brahmzy

Isn't it Ctrl-F1 @ POSTor something?

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Ctrl+F1 in the BIOS.

Thank you!!

It's 11.30 pm here and i've been up since 5....i'm a little disoriented :p:

disregard my last post :toast:

yeah on the highest level of BIOS menu, press ctrl + f1 will enable PCI clock, and Memory timing, PCI-E interface ...

Any improvements with the F3 bios? I'm on F1 right now.

Mind you i havent tried overclocking yet. I'll save that for tomorrow morning.

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Originally Posted by K.I.T.T.

Any improvements with the F3 bios? I'm on F1 right now.

Mind you i havent tried overclocking yet. I'll save that for tomorrow morning.

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before you go to F-3 can you try some oc ?

i dont have MCH temp in BIOS !! wtf? !

i have systemp temps, cpu temps, but no MCH , ICH temps ...

help

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Originally Posted by theteamaqua

i dont have MCH temp in BIOS !! wtf? !

i have systemp temps, cpu temps, but no MCH , ICH temps ...

help

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no worries m8....
F-3 and no MCH or ICH

http://img148.imageshack.us/img148/3...adtempswl7.jpg

Sounds like we need an F4 in a bad way...c'mon GB!

that make sense

haha ur DDR18 fails, too i think when urvdimm is over +0.3v it fails. again wtf!!

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Originally Posted by theteamaqua

that make sense

haha ur DDR18 fails, too i think when urvdimm is over +0.3v it fails. again wtf!!

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always is over +0.05v

:D

vdimm fails is normal , it's always the case when you overvolt it :D

I've never seen an official giga bios showing the voltage in real time, i've seen only one , a beta bios for the NF4 SLI.

Real time voltages are assurely hidden , maybe i can ask a special bios for us, who knows :D

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maybe i can ask a special bios for us, who knows

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ask from there and i will ask from here

why a entry level MB use no 4/3 dividers?.....

yeayh my DDR18 failed .. my corsair 8000UL need 2.2v which is +0.4v, so yeah

Humm , i suppose : I975 needs some advantage to compete :D

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Humm , i suppose : I975 needs some advantage to compete :D

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no need, i975X is faster :D

and about DQ6`s dividers?is 1:1 the minimum?

maybe, but the FSB potential seems to be better than 975, 965 is just born and promishing.
510 Aircooled is not so bad.

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Originally Posted by misteroadster

maybe, but the FSB potential seems to be better than 975, 965 is just born and promishing.

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hehehehe

its unfair and we know that

:D

someone tested E6300 retail, 440fsb and no more ... :(

Where? Link?

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Originally Posted by Lestat

mine is friggin insanely hot,, i mean at idle without a fan its VERY hot to the touch..

anyone who doesnt have a little 50mm or 40mm fan on their chipset go get one, dont let that chipset sit there without a fan on it.

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That's what I did:

http://www.damontech.net/ds3.jpg

I had a fan left over from my old nForce2 board. The screws I had screwed right into the fins on the HSF without any adhesive.

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510 Aircooled is not so bad.

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:rofl: yes not bad :p:

Which air cooler was used for that though ? and I'd like to know if the retail allen has done as well.

105inc is cheapest Ive found in the uk so far, not actually in stock though
http://www.dabs.com/productview.aspx...51B&PageMode=1


Iam always wary of flashing bios, my last asus board seemed to have a clever ability to flash itself from floppy even if the rest of the bios went bad. Anything similar on this board?

its from coolaler.com (thank u coolaler for advertising this site, i dont care what language it is . i have learned soo much from the pictures)

http://forum.coolaler.com/showpost.p...8&postcount=37

well he didnt go any higher (b/c no other post after post #37 show any pictures. common sense people), so im guessing retail < ES chips

can someone understand this language explain why he didnt go any higher?? it looks like japanese

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its from coolaler.com (thank u coolaler for advertising this site, i dont care what language it is . i have learned soo much from the pictures)

http://forum.coolaler.com/showpost.p...8&postcount=37

well he didnt go any higher (b/c no other post after post #37 show any pictures. common sense people), so im guessing retail < ES chips

can someone understand this language explain why he didnt go any higher?? it looks like japanese

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DQ6 mobo man

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That's what I did:

http://www.damontech.net/ds3.jpg

I had a fan left over from my old nForce2 board. The screws I had screwed right into the fins on the HSF without any adhesive.

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did it improve your OC

i'll have a nice fan blowing over the RAM and that nb there.......as TT BT won't have any airflow that way heh

i thought DQ6 = DS3 in OCing

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did it improve your OC

i'll have a nice fan blowing over the RAM and that nb there.......as TT BT won't have any airflow that way heh

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I don't have a Conroe yet so I have no idea. I'm definitely not going to test it without a fan. It's hot here in NC.

any new bIOS will fix this "reboot in order to OC" problem??

i mean i can boot at stock setting (after turning PSU off and on, then flip the power on switch) then i loaded my OCing such as 920D 4GHz, and all that, then reboot and bam it boots jsut fine. But after i shutdown the computer, and PSU and tried to boot at 4GHz ... it fails , then the mobo shutdown PSU on n off for about 4 times and loaded non overclock setting. It booted, then i can reload my overclock setting VIA this way,

misterous do u know anything like this??

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i thought DQ6 = DS3 in OCing

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apples for apples you need to draw conclusions........you know that tests even different between same mobos...let alone different ones........slightly in this case but different nonetheless

I got this for my NB...supposed to be almost inaudible. Solid copper with 28 thin fins. WERD.
http://www.jab-tech.com/product.php?productid=3319

...and my Ultra-120 will clear it. BARELY.

why spend money on :banana::banana::banana::banana: like that if it doesn't help with performance.........i don't think that will really impact CPU speeds/temp either

Dinos its not just about oc'ing its about the fact that the spec's of these chipsets dont require active cooling and anyone who has had a 975 or 965 chipset will tell you that northbridge get HOT!!!!!

it NEEDS active cooling.

its not about the OC its about being smart and doing what the stupid mobo makers shoudl have done and offered a way to cool the device to allow it to actually live longer.

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Dinos its not just about oc'ing its about the fact that the spec's of these chipsets dont require active cooling and anyone who has had a 975 or 965 chipset will tell you that northbridge get HOT!!!!!

it NEEDS active cooling.

its not about the OC its about being smart and doing what the stupid mobo makers shoudl have done and offered a way to cool the device to allow it to actually live longer.

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don't you think they would put fans on there if the motherboards would die as a result...............it's a waste of money.....just get good case airflow and you'll be right.........i mean i'll certainly go and buy one of those if OCs will improve as a result otherwise some decent air over RAM and NB will do just fine ;)

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why spend money on :banana::banana::banana::banana: like that if it doesn't help with performance.........i don't think that will really impact CPU speeds/temp either

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with water we need a better solution than that default HS from Gigabyte

http://img104.imageshack.us/img104/2483/ds3waterjv0.jpg


its burns without fan

case flow does absolutely Z E R O for northbridge temps.

i would hope to god you would know this by now.

and you'll go buy one after you feel how hot this DS3 northbridge gets.

as cheap as this mobo is just spend $2 and treat yourself ot a decent little NB fan. ;)

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i thought DQ6 = DS3 in OCing

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For allendale the ds3 gives higher fsb and the dq6 has all the fancy stuff needed for the 4 core chips. 440fsb is dam good anyway, I hope ds3 still does better with retail allen anyhow

is it just me or is anyone else experiencing goofy usb mouse activity ?

whenever i run a cd like install a game or anything my mouse is just really slow.
i havent seen a mouse do that for years, seriously,,

either the usb on these boards (or mine) is screwed up, or.....

also please a few of you guys go into device manager and take a look at the IRQ placement of your devices.
for some stupid reason this mobo piles a crap load of devices on a few IRQ's
i mean main devices.
Video, PCI-E Bus(which is fine its part of the video system), and USB all on one IRQ
then IDE, SATA and Another USB controller on another IRQ

its jsut crazy i dont think i have ever seen a motherboard use 1 IRQ for so many devices.

and there is no way to change this either.
the motherboard doesnt offer ACPI 1 or 2 options

the only other wya to avoid this would be to reload windows and hit F5 and choose Standard PC instead of ACPI compliant PC. this reallocates the IRQ system to something very different.
but also limits your IRQ's to 17 i believe instead of 24 like ACPI 2.0.

anyone else seeing aot of major hardware devices on 1 IRQ ?

another one:

i thought all conroe board supports kentsfield

lol

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Originally Posted by theteamaqua

another one:

i thought all conroe board supports kentsfield

lol

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soundz really good .....can`t wait to c Asrock i865 running a Kentsfield

:D

oh that was a question. it wasnt a statement, does anyone know if this is true?? but well by the time kentsfield out i will have either nforce500 or rd600 depending on the graphoics card, so ..

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Originally Posted by Lestat

is it just me or is anyone else experiencing goofy usb mouse activity ?

whenever i run a cd like install a game or anything my mouse is just really slow.
i havent seen a mouse do that for years, seriously,,

either the usb on these boards (or mine) is screwed up, or.....

......

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nope but i only have :

usb mouse
usb keyboard
DVD RW on IDE
WD2500 on SATA

so ..i dunno i never experience anything like that my mouse works just fine

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oh that was a question. it wasnt a statement,

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i know
:D

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does anyone know if this is true??

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will be very funny to c a top class cpu running with a cheap i865

is this what u want to see:http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/4330/shot0001co0.jpg

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Originally Posted by theteamaqua

its from coolaler.com (thank u coolaler for advertising this site, i dont care what language it is . i have learned soo much from the pictures)

http://forum.coolaler.com/showpost.p...8&postcount=37

well he didnt go any higher (b/c no other post after post #37 show any pictures. common sense people), so im guessing retail < ES chips

can someone understand this language explain why he didnt go any higher?? it looks like japanese

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I always thought coolaler was from Taiwan. Therefore, its in Taiwanese. My second best hunch would be Chinese. Mandarin maybe?

How hot is too hot for the northbridge?