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

[ericminou]

All of those people who ponied up for a $250+ motherboard, probably ponied up for watercooling (check chart), 600W-1000W PSU's (not on chart), top notch ram (check chart), have great case cooling / NB cooling (not on chart!), etc.. There's more to the #'s than that limited information on the chart.

My experience leads me to believe those people at the top with the top end motherboard, probably took some extraoridinary means to get there. Like trying several CPU's. I know at least one of those people tried 3 different e6600's before he got one that did over 3.6Ghz! SO maybe all is not what it seems with "THE Chart".

I agree... but I dont think the cooling is an issue yet!! I was planning on going to water once the temp was the road block. I have a GREAT 600W power supply, good memory and I am on my 4th CPU

Oh yeah, and for me less has been more on the MCH & FSB voltages. With +.1v for both, I can reach 473Mhz FSB with F7 BIOS. Try backing down that +.3v!

My memory is actually rated at 2.2v that's why the +0.4v. I leave the FSB voltage at Normal. I tried to take down the MCH, but without any luck. I mean even 402x9 fails with 1.50vcore while 400x9 runs 24hours with a 1.393vcore??
Finally, I even ran Orthos 7x475 for 4 hours (stopped it)....

OR MAYBE you're right. And maybe its just something like the power circuitry on the DS3 is only good up until about 3.6Ghz max. Compared to the power circuitry on the Asus board that costs nearly twice as much, is a little bit better and can handle some more Mhz.

I would be very curious to hear that and I would be ok with that answer. It is a rather cheap board, but then I hope the Q6 can handle over 3.6ghz... I know I am going to buy a new board to play with this weekend...