I'm willing to bet it will work okay. In the worst case the mobo will probably report it as an "unknown" processor while posting.
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what is the BEST bios to use for the DS3p v.2.0 ?
this is my first gigabyte ever, so i dont know much about them !!
Also whats that bios hack or something to show more options??
My second run on my newly bought Retail E8400.
4ghz at 1.37vcore (I believe can go lower than this). Using Gigabyte P35-DS3L. Stable at least while posting this. Haha.. Temp: 33'C Full load on WC.
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Thanks... At least, its run on my board... But its took several on / off before its managed to POST. I think my board is re setting itself for this proc.. Oh ya.. Using F7 bios and avoid pairing DS3L with E8400. I cant get my proc above 4.2ghz even with 1.6vcore when I can prime 4.0ghz at 1.37vcore (still on going)
Not higer than my qx9650 for the same vcore.
Temp are nicer and could alow higger oc.
For the 24/7 use, I don't believe that I could go over 4.2-4.3Ghz in water cooling.
mm got my q6600 running this weekend....really nice boost almost everywhere :up:
I see vdroop, but it didnīt have effect (yet) to overclock, because I oc'ed just a bit, 333*9=3ghz, that boosted a bit too, ie world in conflict benchmark lowest fps rose up from 13 to 22 :p: (avg 34->41)
When I have time, I tweak this more, then weīll see if the vroodp mod is essential. Lapping coming ahead too. btw, with this mobo and this cpu, is the coretemp 0.96 reliable? @ extremely cold house (my friendīs place) coretemp showed startup temps like 15/12/12/14 (celcius) and in load the temps went up to 28. Possible with cooooold air & tt bigtyp? :eek:
Hey all im preety new to overclocking as such i have noticed that all the q6600 around here are running 3.6g and up i cant get mine past 3.4 can anyone help me with a some volts to set before i oc my specs are this:
Q6600 @ 3.4 1.47vc swifttech watercooling kit up graded the rad to a swiftech360 and a alphacool res i have 2gig of ocz 8500 reaper 2x320 seagates and a x1950xtx vid card got 2 3870 arriving next week on and thats all running a p35-dq6 board in a cosmos case the crrent volts im using on everything is ..
Vcore: 1.47 Dram:2.3 fsbv:.1 mchv:.05 can anyone please help me with what volts i should try please... i need help:confused:
I'm running with the F10 Bios since yesterday. I always update to the latest bios.
My settings are Core CPU = 1.35V, memory voltage + 0.2 (for 2.0V total).
No luck in overclocking..it's a project in progress!
I did too, and too bad for me :( , i canīt go now over 299Mhz fsb, before my E6400 was working at 425x8 (ddr2@850Mhz CL4-4-4-10) without any problem (crysis, Boinc, pes2008...)..
But since i have updated the bios its impossible for me to get even close to my "old" clocks, i donīt know whats going on and i've started to feel desperate with this *** motherboard.
Am i the only one with this problem? :shrug:
The "enhance performance" memory option actually starts to do something with newer BIOSes. So make sure you set it to standard if you are having problems.
It changes performance level. With standard it's 9, turbo 8, and extreme 7. I always leave it at extreme.
swaaye i always check that, i will try this afternoon...
Finally i managed to do it and its again running at 3.4Ghz... i'am happy again and waiting for the E8400 to come out XD
It's out - what nice numbers, and sweet overclocks. For me saving 5 seconds encoding a song, or having nice benchmarks would not justify the $200. Quad core would though :)
And when will flash HDD's come out? That bottlenecks the system no matter how fast the CPU!