Official GIGA P35-S3/DS3/DS3R/DS3P/DS4/DQ6 bios/info thread

[Kougar]

Brama, I gotta agree Crucial Ballistix is great. My 8500 kit went as high as 1220MHz Memtest stable at 2.4v, and 1200MHz at 2.35v.

Logigamer, I don't see how Gigabyte setting the strap at a lower FSB matters to anyone that does plan to run 500+ FSB speeds, they would still end up needing the lower strap setting to begin with.

I played with the System Performance setting today, board defaults to "Turbo" with "Standard" and "Extreme" as the other options. I have verified there is zero difference between "Extreme" and "Standard", the memory settings & results are identical according to Memset. Anandtech verified this setting has a major impact on the DDR3 P35T-DQ6, so I expect a future BIOS from Gigabyte to enable this setting to work correctly and fix the lower performance the DDR2 DQ6 board offers right now.

Ziddey, the DQ6 doesn't beat those scores but I'd say give it at least a 2nd BIOS revision first. For the shipping BIOS it's good enough for me, I expect the performance-tuned BIOS releases to come later.