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

[Kougar]

No improvement for me here- RAM clocking still sucks. I`m wondering if my RAM SPD is conflicting with the BIOS/NB strappings and thats putting a ceiling on my clocks? I could clock my RAM way higher on the P5B.

My RAM clocking seems to cap at 5% over DDR2-1066 spec. Co-incidence? or have Giga capped it so stop current tech shining too bright and making the DDR3 looking even poorer value for money than it already is?

has anyone found any differences between using the red Vs yellow slots?

Oh psh, don't go blaming Gigabyte for made up hocus-pocus just because your overclock doesn't work. Overclocking is not a guarantee, it can depend on anything from choice of RAM chips, to a single BIOS setting set differently, to getting a good batch of any number of hardware components.

Have you proven the RAM clocks highly stabily using other motherboards? My own 965P-DS3 was incapable of running RAM above 1100MHz, but the P35-DQ6 I have has zero issue running the same kit over 1220MHz fully Memtest+ 1.7v stable at 2.4v.

has to be your cpu unless you got an incredibly borked board
running 485 right now with +0.0v fsb and mch

I did not need to touch MCH voltages until around 500FSB or so as well. Same with the FSB or even PCIe voltage.