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

[ziddey]

Tried new bios release for DQ6 F10D beta. so far so good.. i did not try overclocking yet. although i modded for vista activation. not locked

shhhhh

[1heone]

sry LOL

[Richard Dower]

Is anyone seeing very high temps with these new beta bios?
I have F10d installed and CPU temps are very high.

[Richard Dower]

New and updated Jmicron drivers:

ftp://driver.jmicron.com.tw/jmb36x/

[1heone]

yea i noticed my cpu temp went up a few degrees.. prob never really went up. just mis calibration or something.. i doubt it would make the cpu run hotter.

[Richard Dower]

Gigabyte fans, please support our new home...the P35 thread, i have just pre ordered the P35-DQ6 :-)

[Richard Dower]

Lots of new drivers for the DQ6 on the homepage:

http://www.giga-byte.com.tw/Support/...me=GA-965P-DQ6

[Richard Dower]

FAQ for the DQ6 also updated, it seems the new drivers also support ICH9R and i *think* Gigabyte will also be using the new Jmicron JMB373 controller.

The new P-35 boards also feature a new Realtek codec, ALC889A which has 106dB S/N ratio and supports DTS connect.

The Marvell LAN chip has been replaced by a Realtek chip.

[Richard Dower]

New Realtek drivers available, version 1.66:

http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/...&GetDown=false

[LordShadow]

New BIOS definatley increases temps - the BIOS temps are now in-line with Core temp, so i think its a case of more accurate temperature detection rather than the CPU actually running hotter.

[OnLine]

New BIOS definatley increases temps - the BIOS temps are now in-line with Core temp, so i think its a case of more accurate temperature detection rather than the CPU actually running hotter.

Yep!
I get a ~10'C increase too, like You said; it's more in line with Core Temp now.

[therat]

Before I get too excited above an increase in temp I'd like Gigabyte to actually confirm the increase was actually intended and not a blunder by them.

cheers

[Horigo]

Hello,
On ds4, if i put vmch in "normal" does it climb with the fsb or it stand still ?
If it climbs with the fsb then i should put +0.05 or +0.1 to stop it

[JumpyJim]

Can anyone confirm that the latest Gigabyte BIOS (F10D) for the 965P-DQ6 contains Intel's microcode update that addresses an "improper Translation Lookaside Buffer (TLB) invalidation that may result in unpredictable system behavior such as system hangs or incorrect data" ?

From what I have read, the error is extremely rare, but I was just curious

[1heone]

anyone gettin lock ups with this new bios F10D?

[Richard Dower]

Please note, the Jmicron drivers have been updated once again, May 2nd 2007:

ftp://driver.jmicron.com.tw/jmb36x/W...L_R1_17_17.zip

[Richard Dower]

anyone gettin lock ups with this new bios F10D?

No lockups, you mean in general usage or stress testing?...temps are definately 10C higher then with F9.

[Richard Dower]

Oh, the new Jmicron drivers just seem to be WHQL certified, still cool.

[Richard Dower]

Can anyone confirm that the latest Gigabyte BIOS (F10D) for the 965P-DQ6 contains Intel's microcode update that addresses an "improper Translation Lookaside Buffer (TLB) invalidation that may result in unpredictable system behavior such as system hangs or incorrect data" ?

From what I have read, the error is extremely rare, but I was just curious

never heard of this problem...is it serious?

[Richard Dower]

Hello,
On ds4, if i put vmch in "normal" does it climb with the fsb or it stand still ?
If it climbs with the fsb then i should put +0.05 or +0.1 to stop it

It stays locked if you set it to normal in bios. People increase the voltage to get better overclocks, best thing is to try overclocking without adjusting voltages, try adjusting CPU and DDR voltage first...the work on other things.

[JumpyJim]

"Intel has provided a microcode update to HP as a critical software fix. This Intel microcode update addresses an improper Translation Lookaside Buffer (TLB) invalidation that may result in unpredictable system behavior such as system hangs or incorrect data. HP is making available a system BIOS upgrade that integrates a new version of this Intel microcode to address this potential but extremely rare issue. While the occurrence of this issue is extremely rare, HP strongly recommends upgrading the system BIOS to a version listed in the RESOLUTION section (or later). Intel has indicated that the microcode update has no known measurable performance impact and provides a complete and comprehensive resolution to this issue.


IMPORTANT : This condition is NOT specific to HP xw4400, xw6400, xw8400 Workstations or HP Proliant xw460c Blade Workstation, and can affect any workstation that uses Intel Core2 Duo desktop processor E4000 and E6000 sequences, Intel Core2 Quad desktop processor Q6600 and Intel Core2 Extreme processors X6800 and QX6700 processors. It is not restricted to HP systems and can occur on other manufacturers’ Intel-based systems."


You can read about it here.

[1heone]

lockups as in if i m doing multiple things at one time. simetimes vista will get stuck vista x64... i dunno if its just a vista thing.. or wut.. but it wont be a complete lock out. say i m listening to an mp3. i could still use my mouse and hear the mp3. just cant click anything.. strange........

[Gingernut]

What do you all use for the memory performance option -
Normal, Fast or Turbo?

And can it limit your overclocks if Fast or Turbo mode is selected?

[Richard Dower]

Official F5 bios for Revision 2.0 + 3.3 for the 965P-DS3P:

http://tw.giga-byte.com/Support/Moth...S&FileID=12712

[Richard Dower]

What do you all use for the memory performance option -
Normal, Fast or Turbo?

And can it limit your overclocks if Fast or Turbo mode is selected?

I set it to normal, because increasing the FSB increases the DDR2 frequency anyways.

So 425FSB = DDR2 850MHz (425x2), never tried setting it to anything but normal so not sure if it effects overclocking the CPU, i assume memory performance to turbo etc. most overclock the memory and as such the FSB.