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

[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.

[joshua7]

You can try to pull that pin back... jus be very carefull not to overdo it bcause solder or the pin can break quite easily. I did this once to my floppy.

Edit: went to eat some dinner and too late i see.

Didn't bother with that. Bought a 212D and everything's fine now.

[RPGWiZaRD]

I just found out about the FSB straps and that it's not manually selectable in the Gigabyte motherboards. Will this be a problem for me in case let's say I'd reach my goal of 8x 450~475 FSB using 5:6 ram divider resulting in 540~570MHz ram clock or let's say I'm VERY lucky and can get 7x 515~529 FSB stable with ram 1:1. Since I'm not familiar with this as I've been using only AMD until now, any1 care to explain how much of a performance impact and does any1 know at which FSBs the straps changes? I'm a tweaker and I really want to run my systems at optimal performance and my goal is also reaching 10000MB/s memory read in Everest for example with acceptable latency . Should I have choosed ASUS or Abit instead or it won't be a concern for me?

Any response on this is very appriciated, thanks.

[zsamz_]

I just found out about the FSB straps and that it's not manually selectable in the Gigabyte motherboards. Will this be a problem for me in case let's say I'd reach my goal of 8x 450~475 FSB using 5:6 ram divider resulting in 540~570MHz ram clock or let's say I'm VERY lucky and can get 7x 515~529 FSB stable with ram 1:1. Since I'm not familiar with this as I've been using only AMD until now, any1 care to explain how much of a performance impact and does any1 know at which FSBs the straps changes? I'm a tweaker and I really want to run my systems at optimal performance and my goal is also reaching 10000MB/s memory read in Everest for example . Should I have choosed ASUS or Abit instead or it won't be a concern for me?

Any response on this is very appriciated, thanks.

i'm running 525fsb lowest i can go on voltage is +2
10200+ read 9500+ write 48 latency 1:1
@ 510 i hit 10000+ write
multi is @ 7
@8 i gettin better scores but its good enough for me for 24/7

[kenograndmaster]

I have a P35-DS3R board. At 1.45v bios, speedfan reads 1.39v idle/load 1.34v

I tried to measure VCORE with DMM just like this guide:

http://www.vr-zone.com/index.php?i=4966&s=10

However, at load BIOS 1.45v, i read 0.4 on DMM.
Its set to 20V DC having units X.XX I have red point to point in picture and black touching ground metal of case.

Am i doing something wrong? Is this the right place to measure Vcore. It looks to be the bottom right point of that chip/mosfet? if the board's I/O connectors are facing to the right. There seems to be 4 of those points on that mosfet and ive tested the bottom right but end up getting wrong reading?

[RPGWiZaRD]

i'm running 525fsb lowest i can go on voltage is +2
10200+ read 9500+ write 48 latency 1:1
@ 510 i hit 10000+ write
multi is @ 7
@8 i gettin better scores but its good enough for me for 24/7

That sounds great, 48ns latency is quite good and 10200+ read.

EDIT: BTW, how do you update BIOS for your Gigabyte boards, I don't have a floppy, is there any way to use USB stick with Q-Flash for example? Or is @BIOS good enough to use.

[Viss]

Ive used the gigabyte thingy on the cd to flash in windows. Works fine.

[zsamz_]

just make sure firewall allows it to work
priggy might feeze but no problem

hey loco i noticed nb is volt hungry after 575fsb
but no real gain soo...

[MaStA]

Well I found something is wrong with this mix from my past posts.

Vista x64 + Kaspersky 7.0 + Orthos = Computer locking

I uninstalled Kaspersky 7.0 and the issue has vanished. I installed NOD32 and have had no issues...

Anyone else that could test this out and see if they get the same problem?

Honestly I don't care anymore because in the day of using NOD32 it completely surpasses Kaspersky in my eyes. Kaspersky Anti-Virus became an annoying program acting like a damn firewall popping messages up about blocking programs. I never asked for a firewall and I just wanted a anti-virus.

Jared

[Viss]

hey loco i noticed nb is volt hungry after 575fsb
but no real gain soo...

575 is nice, good cpu youve got. My P35C is unmoded and 570 is max FSB me E6600 can do with the mach on this board. On P5B dlx it does 585 but the P35C wont work over 1.60v in bios unfortunately. With 965/P35 max FSB is 99% cpu related.

[gosmeyer]

BTW, how do you update BIOS for your Gigabyte boards, I don't have a floppy, is there any way to use USB stick with Q-Flash for example?

That's what I use.

[caesarean]

P35C-DS3R Rev 1.1, bios F2
I set 5-6-6-18, but cpu-z1.40 read 5-9-9-31..

PLEASE >>> Who know, Why..???

Http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc?id=229270

[Teccxpert]

Whats the highest FSB stable, as in being able to run a full benchmark like 3D or PC mark series with E6850 & DQ6 board users are getting?

[MonsterMan]

New GA-P35-DS4 beta bios out there...

F6a can be found here:

jzelectronic.de

and here:

Station-Drivers

Have not tested it yet my self... But im itching tooo...

[Prodigys]

Can anyoen confirm that the pinmod meant for E4300 does not work on the P35-DQ6 ?

Tested a E4300/E2140/E2160 , did on all the cpu's the 266 and 333 pinmod, non of them worked...

Just got a black screen where he should post.


If anyone can cofirm this also ?


Thanks .

[persh]

I have the DS3R board with a Q6600. In my BIOS the multiplier is set to 9 but the FSB is showing 200mhz. Why is that? When I run CPU-Z I get the correct FSB of 266.7mhz.

Could this be a BIOS issue? I see the F5E bios update is available ... any good?

[Pt1t]

Can anyoen confirm that the pinmod meant for E4300 does not work on the P35-DQ6 ?

Tested a E4300/E2140/E2160 , did on all the cpu's the 266 and 333 pinmod, non of them worked...

Just got a black screen where he should post.


If anyone can cofirm this also ?


Thanks .

Got E4500 / 2160 / and 440 , all worked.

[Poki]

Can anyoen confirm that the pinmod meant for E4300 does not work on the P35-DQ6 ?

Tested a E4300/E2140/E2160 , did on all the cpu's the 266 and 333 pinmod, non of them worked...

Just got a black screen where he should post.


If anyone can cofirm this also ?


Thanks .

I've tried the 266 pinmod on my E4400 and got the same result of blackscreen at boot. Having read around it looks like most gigabyte p965/p35 won't boot with fsb strap other than what is in the bios microcode for the cpu.

[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.

[Prodigys]

Got E4500 / 2160 / and 440 , all worked.

Off course it works, but does it work on P35 like i ask ?

I've tried the 266 pinmod on my E4400 and got the same result of blackscreen at boot. Having read around it looks like most gigabyte p965/p35 won't boot with fsb strap other than what is in the bios microcode for the cpu.

That is 2 bad, because my E2140 dont wanna stop :P
My E2160 got further today, reached 428 FSb already .

[persh]

I have the DS3R board with a Q6600. In my BIOS the multiplier is set to 9 but the FSB is showing 200mhz. Why is that? When I run CPU-Z I get the correct FSB of 266.7mhz.

Could this be a BIOS issue? I see the F5E bios update is available ... any good?

Please anyone?

[slayer_warrior]

I have the DS3R board with a Q6600. In my BIOS the multiplier is set to 9 but the FSB is showing 200mhz. Why is that? When I run CPU-Z I get the correct FSB of 266.7mhz.

Could this be a BIOS issue? I see the F5E bios update is available ... any good?

try loading optimal settings in bios!

[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 :/

[persh]

try loading optimal settings in bios!

Thanks, it did the trick. But I wonder why was it set to 200mhz by default and why cpu-z was reporting the correct 266 number.