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

[irev210]

ya P5B deluxe is 400 but P5k start at 500 afaik.. but the soon release bios i heard you can change the strap for P5K..but gigabyte there is no details yet.

I used DQ6 and P5k D....and I choose to keep my P5K D instead.. I am not saying DQ6 is bad but a matter of preference

I used P35-DQ6 and P5K Deluxe and I like the Gigabyte P35-DQ6 much more.


Both are great boards, really does come down to preference though.

[tal0n]

Good news to P35-DS4 owners.

I wrote to Gigabyte support because I have a problem when I start my computer. When system scans HD's I see a message that says AHCI BIOS Not Installed.

In a week they response to me to try a new BIOS: F5d. The problem continues but I have a huge improvement in memory performance in Everest with this new BIOS.

With F3 I had 8600 and now, with F5d I have 9500

Anyone know why bios shows AHCI BIOS Not Installed ???

Thanks !

Hi Yenclas,

I have the P35-DS4 too, can you share me that bios with that nice performance memory boost?

My board comes with F4 bios and now I am in F5C bios but my memory performance is very low. With DFI 965 with same settings I scored more...

Can you try with that settings?

CPU at 8x400 -> Q6600
RAM at 1:1 (2.0 in GA) 4-3-3-10 -> 4GB mushkin XP2-6400

In sandra and Vista x64 my memory bandwith is 6700 mb/s.

Thanks in advance

[Smartguy]

I was right beeing suspicious about memory preformance....
Can you share that bios please (yenclas)

[Pt1t]

I was right beeing suspicious about memory preformance....
Can you share that bios please (yenclas)

http://www.computer-tuning.nl/topics/GigabyteP35/bios/

[puscifer]

Has anyone had problems with the codec on the DS4? I think mine is interfering with my Gainward 8600GT SilentFx or the Corsair 520HX and sending out all sorts of noise. Either a constant scratching or interference whenever theres hdd or graphics activity. The most i got was today when it clearly increased to annoying levels when i activated the 'optimize for sli' option on COD2.
Just tried the Graphics boost option and lowered the pcix freq to 90 to no result. Any suggestion?

[Smartguy]

http://www.computer-tuning.nl/topics/GigabyteP35/bios/

thare is no F5d bios....

[zsamz_]

anyone try the p35c-dsr3 f3b bios yet??

[zsamz_]

damn just tried it
-4c on cpu n -5c on motherboard
i got 36c on cpu 1,2v 21c on motherboard +2 37c aux
memory performance is better too by .5 in latency n 200+ in read
all from everest cause easytune sayin i got 25c on cpu lmao
i'm @ 416fsp

i be gettin my pc8500 soon n will see how far this board gonna rock

TKS Pt1t
can i ask where u get it lol cause can"t from gigabyte they only got f2 posted

[ziddey]

anyone able to run 500fsb 1:1 cas4 and run mbench? I'm looking to buy a p35, but only if it can do the above and result in <50ns latencies, and >9000 in sse read and write.

Here's the result to beat:

Access latency 47.9 ns (192 clocks)

Read datarate (INT) 8070 Mb/s
Write datarate (INT) 3751 Mb/s

Read datarate (MMX) 8712 Mb/s
Write datarate (MMX) 3773 Mb/s

Read datarate (SSE) 9158 Mb/s
Write datarate (SSE) 9131 Mb/s


That was 500fsb 1:1 cas4 achieved with my dfi p965

[ziddey]

Good news to P35-DS4 owners.

I wrote to Gigabyte support because I have a problem when I start my computer. When system scans HD's I see a message that says AHCI BIOS Not Installed.

In a week they response to me to try a new BIOS: F5d. The problem continues but I have a huge improvement in memory performance in Everest with this new BIOS.

With F3 I had 8600 and now, with F5d I have 9500

Anyone know why bios shows AHCI BIOS Not Installed ???

Thanks !

You're running in ide mode. That's why it shows ahci bios not installed. Nothing to worry about.

[Brama]

Hello,
I am getting crazy with my DQ6 and Corsair Dominator 8500-C5D!

Do you have any suggestion about which memories are stable and overclockable in this motherboard?

Thanks,

[megatron]

Hello,
I am getting crazy with my DQ6 and Corsair Dominator 8500-C5D!

Do you have any suggestion about which memories are stable and overclockable in this motherboard?

Thanks,

Crucial ballistix pc6400 or pc 5300 all the same.

[logigamer]

every gigabyte p35 (ds3,4,6) has a strap and low performance on high fsb?

[Kougar]

Brama, I gotta agree Crucial Ballistix is great. My 8500 kit went as high as 1220MHz Memtest stable at 2.4v, and 1200MHz at 2.35v.

Logigamer, I don't see how Gigabyte setting the strap at a lower FSB matters to anyone that does plan to run 500+ FSB speeds, they would still end up needing the lower strap setting to begin with.

I played with the System Performance setting today, board defaults to "Turbo" with "Standard" and "Extreme" as the other options. I have verified there is zero difference between "Extreme" and "Standard", the memory settings & results are identical according to Memset. Anandtech verified this setting has a major impact on the DDR3 P35T-DQ6, so I expect a future BIOS from Gigabyte to enable this setting to work correctly and fix the lower performance the DDR2 DQ6 board offers right now.

Ziddey, the DQ6 doesn't beat those scores but I'd say give it at least a 2nd BIOS revision first. For the shipping BIOS it's good enough for me, I expect the performance-tuned BIOS releases to come later.

[ziddey]

Thanks Kougar. If it ever does (and hopefully ds3r), I'll be biting. You fiddled with the turbo/extreme whatever memory enhancements?

edit: Kougar, I just read your info from the other thread about memory enhance. HMm... maybe next bios

[Brama]

Everyone can read here:

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...1&postcount=15

and report the results of my failing tests?

Thanks,

[Richard Dower]

Realtek 889A codec drivers, 1.69:

http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/...&GetDown=false

[zoob]

I used P35-DQ6 and P5K Deluxe and I like the Gigabyte P35-DQ6 much more.


Both are great boards, really does come down to preference though.

Being a new P5K owner, I was wondering if you could elaborate. I was poking around and saw that the P35-DQ6 runs much much cooler.

A couple things that would need to be done if switching from a P5K:
1. VDroop mod
2. Reapply thermal paste on northbridge

[Richard Dower]

Brand new Jmicron drivers:

ftp://driver.jmicron.com.tw/jmb36x/W...1.17.20.03.zip


But check this out!

ftp://driver.jmicron.com.tw/jmb36x/Option_ROM/

New option ROM, meaning a new Jmicron bios ROM, version 1.06.70...why the hell can't Gigabyte update the option ROM!!!!!!

But knbow what's ed up!!...Jmicron have a flash utility, but bloody GB have altered Jmicron bios ROM in their own bios a labeled it Gigabyte SATA2...which means end users cannot flash to a newer ROm themselves.

Damn you GB!!!!!!!!!!!

Intel Matrix Storage Manager manual, a good read:

http://www.station-drivers.com/telec...sm7_manuel.exe

[Richard Dower]

A few new P35-DQ6 reviews:

http://obengware.com/telaah/gigabytega-p35-dq6.htm

http://www.matrix.is/index.php?showtopic=2664

http://hardware.multiplayer.it/artic...d=12517&page=4

[robg1701]

Can anyone using one of these boards tell me if they support 1:1 memory operation with an E4300/E2160, ie 800fsb cpus.

Im building a cheap comp for a friend, ive been looking at the lower end 965 boards, but getting a P35-S3 would give him 45nm upgradability so thatd be nice....however I need to use some crappy 667 memory, so having 1:1 would let me get to 3GHz before starting to push the ram.

Anyone actualy got an P35-S3 or P35-DS3R with one of these cpus?

[Richard Dower]

Another new driver, for Intel Quiet System Technology (QST), nesscary HECI driver dated June 19th June 2007:

http://downloadmirror.intel.com/1089...22.1026_PV.exe

[K404]

Being a new P5K owner, I was wondering if you could elaborate. I was poking around and saw that the P35-DQ6 runs much much cooler.

A couple things that would need to be done if switching from a P5K:
1. VDroop mod
2. Reapply thermal paste on northbridge

I have a DS4, and droop is non-existent. Only the normal 0.01-0.02V change i`d expect going from idle to load.

[ashm]

Can anyone using one of these boards tell me if they support 1:1 memory operation with an E4300/E2160, ie 800fsb cpus.

Im building a cheap comp for a friend, ive been looking at the lower end 965 boards, but getting a P35-S3 would give him 45nm upgradability so thatd be nice....however I need to use some crappy 667 memory, so having 1:1 would let me get to 3GHz before starting to push the ram.

Anyone actualy got an P35-S3 or P35-DS3R with one of these cpus?

Hi,

I have the P35-S3 and it does do 1:1. I'm currently running my E4300 on it at 3GHz at stock volts.

The only issue I'm having is not being able to find the options to change the RAM timings unless I'm missing something.

[Kougar]

Yes, the P35-DQ6 supports 1:1 with 800FSB chips. The CPU support list on the S3 board's page lists E4300 and E21xx processors on the supported list since the F2 BIOS for that board.

Ashm, did you make sure to hit Ctrl+F1 while in the main BIOS screen?