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

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BF2142 plays fine

[Lestat]

Do you guys ever do anything with your:

PCI-E Overvoltage Control

or

FSB Overvoltage control?

Also, what do you keep your PCI-E set to for max overclock? Auto? 103?

usually those two dont do anything but i always max them out anyways.
the pci-e overvolt i would assume only comes into play for two reasons.
1) power hungry video cards
2) overclocking the pci-e freq.

but always lock your PCI-E at atleast 100mhz and up to 115mhz is usually just fine although i rarely go over 110mhz.
if you dont lock it, i believe gigabyte has it locked anyways at auto but @ auto it can float around causing hard drive corruption on the sata ports and other issues. so always lock it at 100mhz or higher.

[Lestat]

I can't pull 360x9 out of my machine, yet I see Richard Dower has got 8 with a very close setup. Any tips on bios tweaks etc?

Every time I try to OC I have to clear the CMOS if it s up, and taking out the graphics card is hell when it's all tidy on the inside.

Maybe it's worth noting I'm using a Razer mouse at 500hz USB?

try using a good ol PS2 mouse and keyboard,, just for testing and see what you can do.

but make darn sure you have enough voltages for vdimm, vcore, and (g)mch when in doubt always give it a little extra.

360x9 is horrible.

i know its tough to search this thread its getting to be a huge thread but we discussed this issue long ago so i'll bring it up again.

at around 350-ish some boards showed themselves to be buggy. and not just gigabyte. alot of the boards out there did it.
its just a FSB "wall" they hit and you have to go past that wall to clock higher. its a point where the NB chipsete changes the strap its using. changing from 1066 to 1333.

take the FSB and kick it all the way up to 400.
IF you ram can handle 800mhz then give it atleast 2.1v 5-5-5-15 just so the ram is loose enough.
Give the vcore a full 1.45v again this maybe more than you need but thats ok its not going to hurt the cpu.
leave the mch fsb and pci-e on Auto.
lock the pci-e at 100mhz.

once you do this it SHOULD boot right up... if not raise the vdimm 1 more notch and raise the vcore to 1.5v

no chip is guarenteed nor is a mobo but depending on the week and stepping of your cpu you should be able to hit 3.6ghz VERY easily with well under 1.5v.

my cpu as an example is still hard to beat if not yet beat at all, but maybe by another cpu of the same week and ES stepping.
3.6ghz @ 1.32v 3.8ghz @ 1.425 and 4g at 1.55 in the bios but droop makes it 1.48v...
after the droop on 3.6ghz its actually 1.28v on 3.8ghz its actually i think like 1.375v

so each chip is different you just have to play around with the voltages until you find the working sweet spot for your hardware.


and YES i have seen those Razor mice cause issues.. thats why i mention using a regular PS2 mouse and KB.

[Dominus]

Thanks a lot, I'll have to give that a try tomorrow. Pitty that there's so many incompatabilities and oddities with this board.

Thanks for your time though!

[gooface]

wheres the new bios? im really getting feed up with these issues.

[Lestat]

Bf2 plays fine, UT series plays fine, Age of empires 3 plays fine, Eve online plays fine, Oblivion plays fine, what was that again?

if you want a battle of Vista vs XP go to the OS section.

stick to the subject at hand people.

[Lestat]

Thanks a lot, I'll have to give that a try tomorrow. Pitty that there's so many incompatabilities and oddities with this board.

Thanks for your time though!

no incompatabilities,,, just quirks.
they are working on them. but hardware changes every week.
we are constantly seeing new hardwares being thrown out in the market and a smaller company like gigabyte can't test everything.

heck it wasnt until like 3 or 4 weeks ago that they FINALLY got a X-Fi to test.
and 2 or 3 weeks ago they got OCZ and GSkill ram to test.

[Richard Dower]

What is the point of overclocking the PCI-E frequency?...you won't see any performamce increase and most likely could cause some issues.

[Lestat]

What is the point of overclocking the PCI-E frequency?...you won't see any performamce increase and most likely could cause some issues.

thats where your absolutely wrong.

overclocking the PCI-E allows big increases in video card overclocking.

it also allows you to overclock the cpu higher.

set the pci-e to 110 then if you have the nvidia card install coolbits and do the auto overclock and you will see higher overclocks.

same for cpu.. it will usually let you overclock higher.

[Richard Dower]

Ok, someone needs to show me evidence of this claim, i need screenies and benchmarks.

[Lestat]

Ok, someone needs to show me evidence of this claim, i need screenies and benchmarks.

its not a claim rich its a plain and simple fact. where you been ?

[Jodiuh]

its not a claim rich its a plain and simple fact. where you been ?

With me in wtfville.

[Phosphate]

So any evidence this F8a BIOS for DS3 is allowing higher frequencies for the Micron D9 based DIMMs?

[TheForce81]

So any evidence this F8a BIOS for DS3 is allowing higher frequencies for the Micron D9 based DIMMs?

How hard can it be read up this thread a bit , come on man this is just plain lazyness. The story is all around the last few pages.....

[Lestat]

So any evidence this F8a BIOS for DS3 is allowing higher frequencies for the Micron D9 based DIMMs?

no the D9 fix is not in place yet. its coming though

[raydelee]

my new ds4-rev.c2 using d9gkx 2.2vdimm

[FirePhoenixCtk]

my new ds4-rev.c2 using d9gkx 2.2vdimm

Whats your bios vcore?

[markopoleo]

no incompatabilities,,, just quirks.
they are working on them. but hardware changes every week.
we are constantly seeing new hardwares being thrown out in the market and a smaller company like gigabyte can't test everything.

heck it wasnt until like 3 or 4 weeks ago that they FINALLY got a X-Fi to test.
and 2 or 3 weeks ago they got OCZ and GSkill ram to test.

fyi gigabyte is not a small company..its one of the top motherboard manufacturers, at least it was last year.

[bingo13]

no the D9 fix is not in place yet. its coming though

Should be late next week for the final release. The first beta hit 510FSB with Corsair 6400C3 at 4-4-3-10 at 1:1.

[Lestat]

my new ds4-rev.c2 using d9gkx 2.2vdimm

ray is that the max you can do ? crank that stuff man lets see how far they will go.


and notice guys that he is using a C2 mobo. not the C1 like 99% of us are.

[HamidFULL]

guys Vista will need 4GB of memroy for best run look here for find more about gameing and 2GB vs. 4GB memory in Vista:
http://www.bcchardware.com/index.php...1&limitstart=3

Richard Dower
won't touch Vista until prices drop and better driver support, and it's gonna be buggy as HELL!!
Wait and see, within the first three months there'll be like 60 patches

its 100% true, I'll wait for Vista Ultimate SP1 + price drop

[davidos]

Should be late next week for the final release. The first beta hit 510FSB with Corsair 6400C3 at 4-4-3-10 at 1:1.

me likey... would love to be a beta tester

[raydelee]

Whats your bios vcore?

1.55 bios vcore

[markopoleo]

guys Vista will need 4GB of memroy for best run look here for find more about gameing and 2GB vs. 4GB memory in Vista:
http://www.bcchardware.com/index.php...1&limitstart=3


its 100% true, I'll wait for Vista Ultimate SP1 + price drop

sigh, of course if you add more memory you get better scores. Same with winxp! Besides its not "better" from the very article you linked to the newest games only showed a %14 increase. 4gig of memory today cause you a fortune, It is still more dependent on video card/CPU than ram!

So many factors play into games than just amount of memory its not even worth that guy to review it. Esp since he only used a ATi X1900GT 256MB card which is a medium range card when vista is out.

You are going to do whatever you think but don't buy into "reviews" like these.

[raydelee]

ray is that the max you can do ? crank that stuff man lets see how far they will go.

just initial test will crank up the voltage soon

and notice guys that he is using a C2 mobo. not the C1 like 99% of us are.

new batch here in Malyasia all are P965rev.c2