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

[BobHarris]

Bios

[megatron]

I was thinking about doing that because the NB heatsink is not straight. Mine is bent one way, and my friend's heatsink is bent another. The NB heatsink is not straight, just like in a lot of pics.

Did you have trouble prying off the cover? Must the doubled sided tape be replaced before re-attaching the cover?

The method to dismantle the heatsinks is detailed in the user manual. Its a standard proceedure if u want to use a non-stock intel heatsink fan, u get retaining nuts inplace of the crazycool backplate to hold the NB down.

[philgood]

Did you have trouble prying off the cover? Must the doubled sided tape be replaced before re-attaching the cover?

You just need to juggle the cover a bit and pull it up, I didn't replace the tape because it still stay sticky and can be re-attached.

[DMH]

Can anyone tell me a good program to see the voltages on windows on a P35-DS4??

[zsamz_]

everest or speedfan

[vld]

everest or speedfan

Zsams what about the F3b bios for p35c-ds3r? still waiting...

[Viss]

Wow GA-P35C-DS3R is wack. It is giving 0.25 more volts to the dimms than it is supposed to. When you set it to +0.5 You are supposed to get 2.3 volts but on this board you get 2.550-ish!!! Can easilly fry your ram! I think it already did do small damage to my ram at 2.4x volts because I didn't have active cooling and I thought I was giving it 2.2 as supposed to with a +0.4 :/ What a mess I am really dissapointed with this board. And where are the bios updates damn it. The f4B bios sucks. Also the cpu voltage is wack. It is totally unacceptable how it undervolts the cpu. 1.48-ish is the max u can get at like 1.6v in bios.

BTW can someone upload the F3B bios for this board please?

Your right although your volts seems more of then mine. +0.4 vdimm gets me 2.35v and +0.5 about 2.46. If i set vcore to 1.6 its 1.55 idle in windows, highest i can use because two higher options wont work Speedfan reports vcore and vdimm. Hooked up me mach and due vcore this is max so far:

[kadir_slayer]

hey dudes

how do you know it overvolts the rams? which program do you use to measure it? please tell me

[Viss]

Although software might not be so accurate speedfan's vcore2 = vdimm.

[kadir_slayer]

thanks ı will try tonight... meanwhile where can ı get the f3b bios for p35c ds3r? it doesn't exist in station-drivers.com.

[kadir_slayer]

does anybody know what the "performance enhance" option really do in bios? you know there are three options standart, turbo and extreme. which one should be chosen for the maximum o.c.? what is the difference between them?

[Brama]

Did you have trouble prying off the cover? Must the doubled sided tape be replaced before re-attaching the cover?

In my DQ6 I only applied a little force to pull out the cover and I used same tape to put it again in place.

[irenic]

The method to dismantle the heatsinks is detailed in the user manual. Its a standard proceedure if u want to use a non-stock intel heatsink fan, u get retaining nuts inplace of the crazycool backplate to hold the NB down.

owh man.. why i never know this.. i bought ultra 120 extreme few days ago just to find out that i need to remove the crazy cool and that gonna makes the northbridge heatsink to loose a lil bit..

so i sell the ultra 120 extreme and spend almost 4x to get a high end watercooling bcoz i thought there's no way i can use that extreme

[vld]

Found the rare F3B for P35C-DS3R on some chinese forum.

Here is the link: http://files.filefront.com/p35cds3r+.../fileinfo.html

[vld]

Just did some comparison tests between F3B and F4B for P35C-DS3R, F4b is faster on the same settings by full 700 MB/sec memory read. Looks like they activated 1T mode in F4b?

Will be doing some stability testing soon.

[Kougar]

does anybody know what the "performance enhance" option really do in bios? you know there are three options standart, turbo and extreme. which one should be chosen for the maximum o.c.? what is the difference between them?

The "Performance Enhance" setting that controls memory settings does not function yet on the DDR2 P35-DQ6 using the F4 BIOS or any of the BETA BIOS's either from what I've seen. I have set it to Standard, Turbo, and Extreme settings but Mbench and Memset results/settings are identical between all three of them. It does not matter if I leave the RAM settings on AUTO or set manually, Performance Enhance changes nothing. It was only even added to the BIOS on the F3 release, so hopefullly that is why Gigabyte has 9+ beta version of F5 as they are probably trying to fix it.

[DMH]

Everest is trial version and the everest shows me less 0.325V on iddle that those I have set on the BIOS

[zsamz_]

Just did some comparison tests between F3B and F4B for P35C-DS3R, F4b is faster on the same settings by full 700 MB/sec memory read. Looks like they activated 1T mode in F4b?

Will be doing some stability testing soon.

yes it is a bit faster but f3b+ memset is much faster
f4b doesnt like memset for some reason
i'm back to f3b

[lowfat]

Take a look here...
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...&postcount=587

I did some testing on MemTest and found some odd information about the strap change. It was believed it was @ 500MHz FSB, but i actually do not think FSB has anything to do with it.

[vld]

yes it is a bit faster but f3b+ memset is much faster
f4b doesnt like memset for some reason
i'm back to f3b

But at the end what matters is the memory bandwidth.

[zsamz_]

@ performance level 7"in memset" 510fsb 6Xmulti 1.22v 4-4-4-8 i get 9700 read n 50 latency
please post your best results

[lowfat]

490MHz FSB with mem @ 1206MHz 4-4-4-12-4-30-2-3 Latency was 50.9 and read was 9939.

[Gepidae]

Im looking into the -DS3R for my new mobo. Are there any quriks associated with this specific model? Several posts back there was a something mentioned about VDIMM actually setting higher than what you set in the BIOS thus damaging your ram with the p35c, is this true across all boards or just that one?

Thanks for inputs

[zsamz_]

Im looking into the -DS3R for my new mobo. Are there any quriks associated with this specific model? Several posts back there was a something mentioned about VDIMM actually setting higher than what you set in the BIOS thus damaging your ram with the p35c, is this true across all boards or just that one?

Thanks for inputs

get the dq6 more options in bios

[Gepidae]

get the dq6 more options in bios

If I had the budget I would love to but Im looking to stay < ~$140