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

[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

[vaio]

Forgive the intrusion but I have a lil question............

Confused by all these Gigabyte P35 board variants.
Which one would best suit my needs?

All I need is a good clocking board to house a Q6600, I don't need a squillion features as it will pretty much be a barebones crunching rig, no OTT graphics and such.

Seems the options are:

Gigabyte GA P35C-DS3R.....£73.
Gigabyte GA P35-DS3P.......£87.
Gigabyte GA P35-S3.........£64.
Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3R......£71.

I don't envisage using DDR3 anytime soon.

On my DS3 I get a decent fsb with my Geil PC2 6400 so I assume it would be decent enough in these boards too?

I know the price differential between these boards isn't great but no point paying extra for features I won't need.

Which board would you folks suggest?

Thank you