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

[kimandsally]

Well last night I decided to remove all the copper heatsinks off my DQ6 and was shocked to see that the contact points where .
The P35 chip had decent contact but the TIM was rock hard. There was only 1 impression in the heatsink pad for the MOSFET modules around the CPU.

I had applied Artic TIM and also used some heat resistant o-rings on the nuts for the north bridge to add additional pressure. I felt there was too much movement for the block on the northbridge.
Normally I could put my finger on the heatsink and not feel much heat, now when I do this the heatsink is warm.

The standard TIM pads that are shipped with the motherboard obviously do not do what they are meant to do.

Normally I could put my finger on the heatsink and not feel much heat, now when I do this the heatsink is warm.


This is not good, if the heatsink is now only warm, it means that it is getting less heat into it than before, if it were hotter then it would be doing a better job of getting the heat from the bits on the motherboard.

Check your temps via software to see what they were before and now.

[MaStA]

Normally I could put my finger on the heatsink and not feel much heat, now when I do this the heatsink is warm.


This is not good, if the heatsink is now only warm, it means that it is getting less heat into it than before, if it were hotter then it would be doing a better job of getting the heat from the bits on the motherboard.

Check your temps via software to see what they were before and now.

Say what? If the heatsink is cool then that means it is not absorbing heat. If it is warm/hot that means it is absorbing heat. Your airflow will determine how cool it stays, but if all you did was replace the tim and your airflow remains the same then the heatsink getting warmer in my eyes would be a good thing. If there was say no contact between the chips and heatsink before and now there is contact obviously the heatsink will be much hotter than before.

Jared

[Wallynut]

Normally I could put my finger on the heatsink and not feel much heat, now when I do this the heatsink is warm.


This is not good, if the heatsink is now only warm, it means that it is getting less heat into it than before, if it were hotter then it would be doing a better job of getting the heat from the bits on the motherboard.

Check your temps via software to see what they were before and now.

All my temps are fine and my memory is more stable now. In the past I have had issues running 4 x 1GB modules. I had tried adding volts to the fsb and MCH but no difference. Now I have had no issues at all and have actually been able to increase the modules Mhz.

After using a better quality TIM, the motherboard is more stable which means I am very happy with the board now.
Before I was getting pissed with it and was going to RMA, of course a RMA is now out of the question.

As for the warranty when you use a better TIM it will be void, Does this also mean Gigabyte does not support liquid cooling on the Northbridge ??

[K404]

Does this also mean Gigabyte does not support liquid cooling on the Northbridge ??

I really doubt it!!

-> Just flashed to BIOS F6- I seem to have Spi32M stability to 505 FSB instead of 497 ALTHOUGH I cannot directly put this down to BIOS revision- I was dice benching last week, so its possible the FSB ceiling is linked to that.

F6 doesnt seem much different to F5G, but no worse either!