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

[jacek]

I have a P35-DQ6 on the way. Can anyone who has this board recommend good FSB/MCH voltages for 400FSB?

Also, hows the PWM area in terms of temps with quads? I don't care about dual cores because those don't raise the PWM temps nearly as much as a quad will. Will I need a fans over the giant array of heatsinks?

Your system should be stable with default voltages.
I'm at 490 without increasing voltages on the mainboard.

[Icefury]

My old E6300 i could only get to 3.1ghz no matter what (P35C-DS3R)
I just bought E6550 and it fly over that, i was hurry to play so i didnt test too much, got it booting 500x7 but my memory would not cooperate and did not load to windows, anyway working steady now at 475x7 with 1,325v. not sure yet wich temps are correct but ~45c on max load.

[mojado]

How to obtain 400 FSB on E4300 with 8x multiplier?.
I try to 1,35 vcore, 2 vdimm and increase 0,5 v MCH and FSB but I can´t boot.

E4300 (L701C637) + GA-P35-DS3P (BIOS F4) + 2 gigas RAM GeIL (5-5-5-15 supports to 2,2v).

[rge]

Everyone else probably already knows this, but whats up with the Gigabyte P35 DQ6 marketing two 16x pcie slots.

I had put my 8800 in second slot, not thinking it mattered. Could not figure out why I was getting 9900's in 3dmark6 when everyone else was getting 12K+ with similar setup. Finally I saw the 4x listed instead of 16x on 3dmark6 comparison. Read fine print in manual says supports 4x in second slot. Switched it and now instead of 9900's I always get ~13,500.

I dont care that it only has one 16x slot, if I wanted sli, i would not have this board, so why even use the terms 16x, it is 4x.

[r4st4m4n]

How to obtain 400 FSB on E4300 with 8x multiplier?.
I try to 1,35 vcore, 2 vdimm and increase 0,5 v MCH and FSB but I can´t boot.

E4300 (L701C637) + GA-P35-DS3P (BIOS F4) + 2 gigas RAM GeIL (5-5-5-15 supports to 2,2v).

Try more Vcore. My E4300 + GA-P35-DS3 is only Orthos stable at 3.2GHz if I feed him with 1.45 Vcore :/

[mojado]

Try more Vcore. My E4300 + GA-P35-DS3 is only Orthos stable at 3.2GHz if I feed him with 1.45 Vcore :/

Yea, for now (?) run at 3,2 ghz with 1,375 vcore (356x9 - Evercool IceMan), 2,1vdimm (890/4-4-4-12-2T) and +0,1v vMCH & vFSB.
Temp. ambient 16~20º and CoreTemp IDLE show 33~35º.

Thanxs for reply.

[Poki]

Yea, for now (?) run at 3,2 ghz with 1,375 vcore (356x9 - Evercool IceMan), 2,1vdimm (890/4-4-4-12-2T) and +0,1v vMCH & vFSB.
Temp. ambient 16~20º and CoreTemp IDLE show 33~35º.

Thanxs for reply.

I think you're doing better than I am with my 4400 if that makes ya feel any better. Right now i'm at 356x9 1.525v(on water) ram at 890 4.0-4-3-11-2t 2.2v. The rest of the voltages are at auto and everyting seems pretty cool. It's much faster than my Opteron was so i'm pleased so far. EDIT/ wanted to add that i'm seeing 22c idle 52c load in speedfan for the cores with 23c ambient.

[zsamz_]

i finally found the sweet spot
530fsb
weird thing is the board is cooler now than @ 430fbs and i uped the voltage

[mojado]

Yea, for now (?) run at 3,2 ghz with 1,375 vcore (356x9 - Evercool IceMan), 2,1vdimm (890/4-4-4-12-2T) and +0,1v vMCH & vFSB.
Temp. ambient 16~20º and CoreTemp IDLE show 33~35º.

Thanxs for reply.

I think you're doing better than I am with my 4400 if that makes ya feel any better. Right now i'm at 356x9 1.525v(on water) ram at 890 4.0-4-3-11-2t 2.2v. The rest of the voltages are at auto and everyting seems pretty cool. It's much faster than my Opteron was so i'm pleased so far. EDIT/ wanted to add that i'm seeing 22c idle 52c load in speedfan for the cores with 23c ambient.

Sorry, my mistake.
I need really 1,425vcore in 356x9, vdimm 2,1 at 5-4-4-13 and +0,15 vMCH & vFSB to obtain system stable.... , but the temps are normals in IDLE and full.

Another question....who micro is better to reach a greater FSB on this GA-P35-DS3P? C2D E6420 or E6600 (within my budget) ???

P.D.: sorry for my bad english.

[ZEROMAN]

Poof my DQ6 problems are all gone. I assembled my brand new DQ6 and my brand new E6850 and my new radeon HD2900XT with 4gb of ram. Well from the first day. Everytime I tried to overclock using bios only settings it would always reset back to default settings on startup. I have a multi boot system It would do this with WinXP,WinXP 64,Vista x32, and Vista x64. I tried changing bioses several times to no avail nothing worked except once in a while it would mysteriously work if I was luck till the next reboot. I had tried everything from taking out 2gb of memory didnt help. was brand new power supply 750 watt thermaltake toughpower so i know there wasnt power issues. No heat issues its watercooled I had everything I needed shut off in the bios. For some weird reason I couldnt never use my reset buton youd just hear the pc cycle on and off watching the cool blue leds blink on my video card would have to flip the power off on the back of the power supply and restart. I evertried the dreaded Easytune always same issues. Well I was getting sick of all the crackes pops and lag effect from the onboard sound. So I went out and bought myself a bluegears b-Enspirer and disabled my onboard sound and Poof my overclocking works 100% od the time either in bios or with Easytune. My reset button actually works now. My conclusion either theres a batch of DQ6's around with onboard sound issues or maybe its just noone uses it to have noticed the problem. Ive seen some post to the sort of other people having issues with setting always reverting back to default Im curious to see if they were using onboard sound and if so try disabling it and see if your problems go away

Yay now im OC'ed to 3.6 at 32c 100% load Woot