Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3, Pretty good start

[Verisimilitude]

i could set it manually by enabling the timing but thats toomuch work and too little world world gain

Takes like 1 reboot man.

[theteamaqua]

hehe many benchies show that conroe dont have even a 1% gain in gaming in tighter timing , but the board does have PCI-E enhance and set to turbo GeForce 7800 GTX stock at 430 jumped to 468 without even ocing

although F3 limits the PCI E voltage to
+0.1 but i can still squeez about 510/1300 out of my 7800GTX

and yeah i can try that

[theteamaqua]

http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc?id=106413

changed it to 5-4-4-9 dont have the patience to go lower lol

[sierra_bound]

You were using 3:5 ratio there. What's the maximum FSB at 1:1? Can you do more than 400?

[theteamaqua]

at 3.5GHz which fsb is 250 i can do 1GHz like my sig

http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc?id=105740

there after 1 min of rebooting n failure to boot i think 4-4-4-9 is the lowest i can boot
http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc?id=106415

and felix just sent me memset 965:



3-3-3-7 is the lowest i can set maybe more voltage :X

[theteamaqua]

felix u rock

[Lestat]

hehe many benchies show that conroe dont have even a 1% gain in gaming in tighter timing

wow man you seriously are smoking some shyat lol j/k thats way off man, that conroe will smoke anything especially a 920 @ 3.8

it beats my 955 XE @ 4.5ghz and my conroe is only at 3.6ghz. and mind you that 955 Xe is dualcore AND hyper threading.


and phosphate, you dont know how to apply thermal paste ? ok this is going to be a long night...

first and foremost throw away that crap stock heatsink. its not good for anything other than a paperweight.
take a razor and remove that old thermal pad crap.
take some lighterfluid or something and rub off any remaining goo, dont leave ANY on it.
get some good thermal paste, Arctic Silver 5 please.
take and put a small tab on your cpu. by small i mean maybe a 1/8th x 1/8th inch blob it dont take much
take the ehatsink and set it on the cpu and press down firmly, DO NOT WIGGLE OR MOVE THE HEATSINK AROUND very much,
with your other hand clip down the retention clips so the heatsink remains.
plug everything in and away you go.

[Vric]

wow man you seriously are smoking some shyat lol j/k thats way off man, that conroe will smoke anything especially a 920 @ 3.8

it beats my 955 XE @ 4.5ghz and my conroe is only at 3.6ghz. and mind you that 955 Xe is dualcore AND hyper threading.

He talk about tighter timing of the memory, not cpu raw power.. read !

in other word, the difference of 3-3-3-10 vs 5-5-5-15 is negligible in games (2%-3% at best)

[misteroadster]

F3 official bios available here :

http://europe.giga-byte.com/FileList...965pds3_f3.exe

I can't test it for the moment, i'm working on another platform.
Waiting for your results.

[theteamaqua]

yeah ps i already have F3 its much better control over PSU, and also if it fails to boot it just shutdown PSU n restart at stock speed which is nice cuz in F2 i gotta cleasr CMOS then OC all over again

[K.I.T.T.]

yeah ps i already have F3 its much better control over PSU, and also if it fails to boot it just shutdown PSU n restart at stock speed which is nice cuz in F2 i gotta cleasr CMOS then OC all over again

You mean CPU right, not PSU

[theteamaqua]

no i mean PSU cuz sometimes it shutdown the PSU for no reason

http://www.giga-byte.com/Support/Mot...ProductID=2314

i am not sure how to explain it but anyway it fix the power on issue

[K.I.T.T.]

no i mean PSU cuz sometimes it shutdown the PSU for no reason

http://www.giga-byte.com/Support/Mot...ProductID=2314

i am not sure how to explain it but anyway it fix the power on issue

Oh right....this problem occurs in the P5W DH as well

[Brahmzy]

Thanks for the new f3 BIOS guys!

[sierra_bound]

The PSU temporarily shutting down is not a problem per se. More of an annoyance. The Bad Axe sometimes does it and so does the P5WD2. I think that's just the way the 975X chipset works. I don't know if it does it on the DFI Infinity too.

[Lestat]

crap does the DS3 shut off when you exit the bios or reboot windows also when the FSB is above 320mhz ?
please no.... that is so annoying and not good for the hardware.
its not allowing the hardware to properly shut down.

[Vric]

crap does the DS3 shut off when you exit the bios or reboot windows also when the FSB is above 320mhz ?
please no.... that is so annoying and not good for the hardware.
its not allowing the hardware to properly shut down.

Someone over newegg reported this "problem" yes.

It's not just an Asus feature. This board and the Bad axe (seen on this forum) have this too.

[ocZZZ]

I believe the latest bios fixes that.

crap does the DS3 shut off when you exit the bios or reboot windows also when the FSB is above 320mhz ?
please no.... that is so annoying and not good for the hardware.
its not allowing the hardware to properly shut down.

[ArcTan]

Right I have the same question. My celeron 326 (533 FSB) just arrived today and I have OCZ PC2-6400. I'm hoping it will fire up without having to make adjustments initially. Won't the DDR2 800 stuff just automatically run slower? or do I have to manually change the settings to make it run slower?

it won't run at DDR2-800 but will start at a lower speed. also seems like it's a max 533mhz mem when cpu is at 133 fsb

F3 official bios available here :

http://europe.giga-byte.com/FileList...965pds3_f3.exe

I can't test it for the moment, i'm working on another platform.
Waiting for your results.

thanks I'll download it now

[tvdang7]

i want one of these.......im shooting for a 6300 my self. any real cons about this board?great price who needs 2 pci-e slots anyway not me

[Brahmzy]

No cons as far as 965 goes and great results so far. We'll see once the Retail procs come.

An E6300 would kick arse on this board.

[Kunaak]

Does anyone have any volt mods for this board?

I want to do atleast VDimm and VGMCH to this board...
its great as is... but it needs alittle more.

[Phosphate]

What's the story about having the reboot for every single change you make in the bios (I was looking at that ASUS vs DS6 vs Bad Axe thread).

Is the DS3 doing that too or can I make more than one change without having to reboot for each one?

[Richard Dower]

I'm assuming this is a bios related issue and will be resolved, perhaps people who own said mobo could email Gigabyte and list their problems so as bios updates can be issued?

[Kunaak]

I dont know who told you that...
I been making 5-6 changes in bios each time and it reboots and all that just fine.

I just got the board this afternoon however... so I dont know of any real quirks in the board yet other then...

you cannot set the Tras Lower then 9 for some reason (Bios F1 and F3)

and, you can't set ras to cas 2 or TRP 2.
all of these settings work in bios, but get into windows and your settings are always cas 3-3-3-9 at the lowest.