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

[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

[qwertyaas]

I'm having a slight problem getting my E6420 to ~3.6 without going above 1.5v. Currenty, I have got 3.2@1.35(bios) and 3.4@1.38 stable (I keep my normal usage at 3.2). When I try to bump it to 3.6, not even 1.48 or so would stay stable - Orthos keeps crashing after a couple minutes or I get a BSOD. I have all my other voltages set as normal besides for the ram which I have at 2.2v running at 450 5/5/5/12 (instead of 4/4/4/12 just to get this OC stable). Should I raise the FSB volts a bit or that isn't needed and I just need to pump out some more Vcore?

My max temps are around 54-55 on Orthos full load and around 30c Idle.

Also, does anyone know what stock Volts are for MCH, FSB and PCI-E Overvoltage?

[RPGWiZaRD]

Well perhaps it scales bad with voltage like my new E6750, does up to 3.36GHz on 1.35v bios value with 1.33v idle and 1.31v load after vdroop. To get 3.6GHz stable for example it needs even 1.40v load, to get to 3.75GHz it needs even 1.5v load. Honestly I had hoped for a lot higher clock when I found out it did even 3.36GHz Orthos stable on a 1.31v load but it turned out to not be as I had hoped for such as 3.9GHz at 1.5v or so, instead it did only 390MHz more with an almost 0.2v increase. Can the scaling get any worse than that? If I would go for the voltage/MHz sweetspot, 3.36GHz would be it for this CPU but meh I'm a performance enthusiast and 3.36GHz is too low clock for my liking so I just use 3.75GHz despite the quite a lot wasted power consumption for a relatively small clock increase.

[xphaze]

I just got my P35 DQ6 and the first thing i did was to remove the "crazy cool" plate. Now i'm just wondering if supplied nuts really gives enough pressure to the heatsink? Mine seems a bit loose and im experiencing really ty ram problems (memtest fails).

[NJDevilsFan21]

I just got my P35 DQ6 and the first thing i did was to remove the "crazy cool" plate. Now i'm just wondering if supplied nuts really gives enough pressure to the heatsink? Mine seems a bit loose and im experiencing really ty ram problems (memtest fails).

I don't have any nuts on mine (probably a very bad thing) but so far... other then a few random reboots when trying to load CoreTemp... I haven't really seen any problems.

Did you nuts come in a small sealed bag? I am just clueless as to where mine went or where they may be.

[ZEROMAN]

Yes the nuts come in a little sealed bag. Took me a while to figure out what they were for and had to read the directions duh lol