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

[DeNs]

Anyone else try this P35-DS3R Vdroop mod? I just gave it a whirl with a circuit pen and it's working. I applied the silver paint with the flat side of my smallest mini screwdriver. Stock voltage primeing went up to 1.23v from 1.18v. I'm trying for 400x8 stock volts so it idles with C1E 1.15v.

http://forums.vr-zone.com/showpost.p...0&postcount=10

Nice - good to see it working with a rev1.0 board. Shows there's hope yet for those with that revision.

---dens

[TsvetanVR]

Hmmm, does nail polish do the job? Or AS5 (it has silver in it too so I suppose it will do the same job) ?
p.s. What is that silver paint and where can I get it?

[robber123]

robber - you likely just need a bump in core voltage

Kenton.
thanks for the tip about the voltage.
did that,and its very stable now@3.3ghz from 3.0ghz.
would like to take it to 3.6ghz,but i will settle for that now.
thanks once again.

[Ajn]

Anyone else try this P35-DS3R Vdroop mod? I just gave it a whirl with a circuit pen and it's working. I applied the silver paint with the flat side of my smallest mini screwdriver. Stock voltage primeing went up to 1.23v from 1.18v. I'm trying for 400x8 stock volts so it idles with C1E 1.15v.

http://forums.vr-zone.com/showpost.p...0&postcount=10

hmmm that vmod looks a lot easier than what sham showed us in http://www.vr-zone.com/articles/Giga...w/4966-10.html
so which mod works the best, and which of them I should do?

I need that vdrop mod, this GA-P35-DS3R rev1 board has a huge vdrop in my opinion, even with this e2160, and in just a few days I get my Q6600 G0 soon I have a lot of fun (and hopefully some certain games won´t drop in fps...)

I´m not afraid of those vmods introduced by sham but if there´s a easier mod available I think I should go with that.

[GazC]

Is anyone using a waterblock on the chipset for the DQ6? I need recommendations for a block please.

[road-runner]

Is anyone using a waterblock on the chipset for the DQ6? I need recommendations for a block please.

I had the MCW 30 on mine awhile back. I had to RMA the board and have not put water back on it though...

[GazC]

I had the MCW 30 on mine awhile back. I had to RMA the board and have not put water back on it though...

Thanks for the speedy response, is that block copper or aluminium?

[swaaye]

Hmmm, does nail polish do the job? Or AS5 (it has silver in it too so I suppose it will do the same job) ?
p.s. What is that silver paint and where can I get it?

It's a circuit writer pen. I ordered mine online. They are not exactly rare. Kinda expensive but the easiest way to do this. You could probably use that rear window defroster repair paint too though (I got some at an autozone store once). Maybe pencil lead, but that stuff will vaporize over time with current going thru it so resistance will slowly rise.

http://www.radioshack.com/product/in...ductId=2104395
http://www.mcminone.com/product.asp?...uct_id=200-175

[swaaye]

hmmm that vmod looks a lot easier than what sham showed us in http://www.vr-zone.com/articles/Giga...w/4966-10.html
so which mod works the best, and which of them I should do?

I need that vdrop mod, this GA-P35-DS3R rev1 board has a huge vdrop in my opinion, even with this e2160, and in just a few days I get my Q6600 G0 soon I have a lot of fun (and hopefully some certain games won´t drop in fps...)

I´m not afraid of those vmods introduced by sham but if there´s a easier mod available I think I should go with that.

LOL. Yeah you can't get any easier than just bypassing a single resistor with some conductive paint or whatever. It seems to be working fine. I am stable at 3.2 GHz with stock volts now. I also found a mod for my 965P-DS3 3.3 that covers the same resistor.

I have to say that I'm rather confused as to why Gigabyte lowered the voltage like that in the first place, if it can be fixed by just bypassing that single resistor.

[road-runner]

Thanks for the speedy response, is that block copper or aluminium?

It appeared to be copper to me? Its made by Swiftech...

[GazC]

Great! Thanks.

[kenton]

How is speedfan support with these boards?

I am coming from a P5B-Deluxe that I could control all 3 of my 3-pin fans using SpeedFan.

Gigabyte board much the same way??

[swaaye]

A little FYI here on my previously posted voltmod for the vdroop: I undid it. It seemed to have caused a very distinct buzz from the voltage regulator area of the board. Not all that nice to hear. I have no idea what it meant, but I decided to undo the mod because of it.

Perhaps it was overloading a part of the vreg circuitry? No idea honestly. The sound got louder with higher volts and load, and is completely nonexistent without the mod.

[Ajn]

A little FYI here on my previously posted voltmod for the vdroop: I undid it. It seemed to have caused a very distinct buzz from the voltage regulator area of the board. Not all that nice to hear. I have no idea what it meant, but I decided to undo the mod because of it.

Perhaps it was overloading a part of the vreg circuitry? No idea honestly. The sound got louder with higher volts and load, and is completely nonexistent without the mod.

now that´s weird. By bypassing that resistor, it should just rise the voltage a bit, but I don´t think that it would cause the regulator(s) to "hum" or "buzz".
Maybe if the "undoing" the mod made the "humm/buzz" sound(s) go away, there must be somthing related in those sound(s) and bypassing that resistor....sound pretty odd to me. The sound(s) are now gone when you undid that mod, aren´t they?

Faulty board? Something broken?

Oh one thing that I know for sure can make those "humming/buzzing" sounds are inductors. But they are all ferrite core ones, can they "humm/buzz"? Haven´t thought about that. (blah rather obvious they can...)

[DeNs]

I have to say that I'm rather confused as to why Gigabyte lowered the voltage like that in the first place, if it can be fixed by just bypassing that single resistor.

That's kinda why i'm concerned about the exact reason as to what this mod does bypass.. Sure it fixes the issue, but it could be preventing an overload on the vRegs or something.. *shrug*

Or AS5 (it has silver in it too so I suppose it will do the same job) ?

AS5 will be slightly capacitive but it's not conductive, if the arctic silver website is true (well, at least it said that a few years ago last time I checked).

A little FYI here on my previously posted voltmod for the vdroop: I undid it. It seemed to have caused a very distinct buzz from the voltage regulator area of the board. Not all that nice to hear. I have no idea what it meant, but I decided to undo the mod because of it.

Perhaps it was overloading a part of the vreg circuitry? No idea honestly. The sound got louder with higher volts and load, and is completely nonexistent without the mod.

That is a little concerning. I haven't heard anything on mine thus far. I'm not really fussed with my board to be honest. If it goes, no big deal as it was a cheapie.

---dens

[maxwolfie]

Sorry guys, but to save me from reading 80 pages of posts..

Is this mod available (or any other worthwhile mods) for the GA-P35-S3 (Rev 2)? I get bad vdroop when overclocking too. Currently set at 1.5v in bios, real voltage is ~1.40-1.42v

Stable @ 3.3ghz though at this voltage (E4400 10 x 330)

Also, what's with the lack of bios updates on the GB site? There's only F5 & F6

[kenton]

How is speedfan support with these boards?

I am coming from a P5B-Deluxe that I could control all 3 of my 3-pin fans using SpeedFan.

Gigabyte board much the same way??

bump

[swaaye]

now that´s weird. By bypassing that resistor, it should just rise the voltage a bit, but I don´t think that it would cause the regulator(s) to "hum" or "buzz".
Maybe if the "undoing" the mod made the "humm/buzz" sound(s) go away, there must be somthing related in those sound(s) and bypassing that resistor....sound pretty odd to me. The sound(s) are now gone when you undid that mod, aren´t they?

Faulty board? Something broken?

Oh one thing that I know for sure can make those "humming/buzzing" sounds are inductors. But they are all ferrite core ones, can they "humm/buzz"? Haven´t thought about that. (blah rather obvious they can...)

Yeah I'm sure it was coming from an inductor. Hard to determine with this board's closed inductors because you can't stop their vibrations with your finger like with cheapie open inductors.

Ah well. It would be interesting to hear if anyone else gets that sound if they do the mod. It really did fix up the vdroop in a big way. 1.40v BIOS = 1.38v sensor. Without the mod I have to do like 1.50v BIOS to get 1.40v sensor, and at idle the volts are ~0.05v higher than load. Dumb stuff with these boards.

My 965P-DS3 rev 3.3 got a very similar mod. Hell, I think I covered the same resistor in the same spot lol. No bad sounds from it.

[tdntx]

How is speedfan support with these boards?

I am coming from a P5B-Deluxe that I could control all 3 of my 3-pin fans using SpeedFan.

Gigabyte board much the same way??

I use a fan controller on my DS3R so I can't really answer your question. However, I've worked on DS3L and speedfan can only control 2 of 4 fan connectors and those 2 are 4-pins connector type.

[kenton]

Do they fans need to be 4 pin fans to be controlled with SpeedFan? This was not a requirement on my P5B Deluxe

Or do you mean only the two 4 pin headers can be controlled with either a 4 or 3 pin fan?

[tdntx]

Do they fans need to be 4 pin fans to be controlled with SpeedFan? This was not a requirement on my P5B Deluxe

Or do you mean only the two 4 pin headers can be controlled with either a 4 or 3 pin fan?

Only 4-pin headers can be controlled by speedfan. I use 3-pin fan on both.

[kenton]

Thanks.

I just finish my order at Newegg consist of:

Q6600 G0 (previous non-egg purchase)
4x1GB G.Skill Micron D9GMH (previous)
Corsair 620HX (previous)

Gigabyte P35-DS3P 2.0
8800GTS 512MB G92 core XFX brand
Zalman 9500

I didn't know how well 9500 would fit versus 9700 and all benchmarks I saw showed less than 3C difference in typical situations.

[kenton]

I meant to ask a couple of questions:

How do I set the memory ratio to 1:1, I believe in Giga boards it's "2.0" option under the memory divider in the overclocking menu (CTRL+F1 -- been using that since GA-7VAXP KT400 board!!)

Can you confirm 1:1 = 2.0?

I basically plan to set CPU ratio at 8x, memory at 1:1 (voltage at 2.1 obviously), FSB at 400 and voltage somewhere close to 1.375-1.40 and begin Orthosing all four cores. I know how to overclock, I've just used ASUS boards since my KT400 Giga board blew its caps.


Also, how is best method to flash BIOS from USB stick. I must apply latest BIOS flash due to 1TB hard drive (some issue??). I know how to use Q-Flash from reading manual I downloaded but do I just put the BIOS .bin file in root directory of USB drive or do I need to use HP formatting tool?

[DeNs]

I meant to ask a couple of questions:

How do I set the memory ratio to 1:1, I believe in Giga boards it's "2.0" option under the memory divider in the overclocking menu (CTRL+F1 -- been using that since GA-7VAXP KT400 board!!)

Can you confirm 1:1 = 2.0?

I basically plan to set CPU ratio at 8x, memory at 1:1 (voltage at 2.1 obviously), FSB at 400 and voltage somewhere close to 1.375-1.40 and begin Orthosing all four cores. I know how to overclock, I've just used ASUS boards since my KT400 Giga board blew its caps.


Also, how is best method to flash BIOS from USB stick. I must apply latest BIOS flash due to 1TB hard drive (some issue??). I know how to use Q-Flash from reading manual I downloaded but do I just put the BIOS .bin file in root directory of USB drive or do I need to use HP formatting tool?

Yup just set it to 2.0 and it'll be 1:1.

I couldn't ever get the HP boot tool working for me - but you don't need it if you're flashing the BIOS Make sure USB Legacy mode is enabled, then enter Q-Flash once you're in the BIOS setup (F9 I think it was). Then your USB stick should show up as a HDD in there. All you need on the stick is the bin file you want to flash with.

Probably the most painless BIOS update process i've come across actually. Quite happy with it

---dens

[stasio]

Hi,guys new version is out as follows:
Core Temp 0.96 is out:
here
CPU-Z, version 1.42.3:
here
Prime95 version 25.6 build 6
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EVEREST Ultimate v4.20.1237 Beta
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SpeedFan 4.34 beta 37
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or
RS link