NEW DS3 BIOS = WINNER!

[sanitydc]

New bios for DS3 (F8A) are doing great things for my overclocking, I've been able to drop my vcore substantially while maintaining stability as well as boot at higher FSB's than ever previously, if you have 450 + issues I highly recommend this bios update.

http://www.cranox.com/Gigabyte/DS3/965pds3.f8a


overclockers post your results post bios updates!!

I'm at 3.7 10 minutes orthos stable and counting at 1.57 vcore.


edit: In windows it no longer picks up my correct vcore for some reason... hmm it sees it as 1.325

 

[StrangerGuy]

May I know what is your FSB and MCH voltage?

 

[sanitydc]

.3+ on both respectively

 

[sanitydc]

my system just hardlocked @ 466, I may have been overhopeful. :[

 

[tran1981]

I have the same ram. What is your vdimm? Is it on TURBO? Do u set your PCIe=100 or AUTO?

 

[NoStateofMind]

Originally posted by: sanitydc
New bios for DS3 (F8A) are doing great things for my overclocking, I've been able to drop my vcore substantially while maintaining stability as well as boot at higher FSB's than ever previously, if you have 450 + issues I highly recommend this bios update.

http://www.cranox.com/Gigabyte/DS3/965pds3.f8a


overclockers post your results post bios updates!!

I'm at 3.7 10 minutes orthos stable and counting at 1.57 vcore.


edit: In windows it no longer picks up my correct vcore for some reason... hmm it sees it as 1.325

That's ALOT of voltage. I would never give my chip that much.

Congrats on the OC though

 

[The-Noid]

For that overclock it is a lot of voltage but I think it will be ok, C2d doesn't seem to fry very easily. I will ave a nice post up later showing how to kill a C2D. Damn thing hasn't died yet so I can't finish my post. E6300 is one voltage beast.

Hint: @1.83 volts (actual) C2D E6300 idles at 73 in bios under Tuniq Tower

 

[sanitydc]

yeah it idles at low 70's for me at 1.8 too. my board shuts me off at 486* no matter what I do, and it starts to lock up around 466-470 depending on the level of stress I put into it.

 

[lopri]

Originally posted by: Yoxxy
For that overclock it is a lot of voltage but I think it will be ok, C2d doesn't seem to fry very easily. I will ave a nice post up later showing how to kill a C2D. Damn thing hasn't died yet so I can't finish my post. E6300 is one voltage beast.

Hint: @1.83 volts (actual) C2D E6300 idles at 73 in bios under Tuniq Tower

I can't wait. Make sure to take photos, please.

 

[cmdrdredd]

Originally posted by: Yoxxy
For that overclock it is a lot of voltage but I think it will be ok, C2d doesn't seem to fry very easily. I will ave a nice post up later showing how to kill a C2D. Damn thing hasn't died yet so I can't finish my post. E6300 is one voltage beast.

Hint: @1.83 volts (actual) C2D E6300 idles at 73 in bios under Tuniq Tower

*yawn* since when did purposely killing such a good and perfectly usable CPU become fun?

 

[Jen]

i am useing F7 and have achieved 490 fsb memtest stable . i use machine dailey at 486 with my e6300 . voltage is at 1.42 this has been tested orthos stable at 24 hrs . memtest at 19 hrs at 490 fsb.

cooling both the cpu and nb with water blocks in a small case


hugs

Jen

 

[sanitydc]

lol, for the first 2 weeks I had this build, I had it running at 3.4 ghz (this was before i got the OCZ ram that didn't oc well) with the stock HSF and as it turns out it wasnt mounted well...
the thing ran at 70 the whole time IDLE, and I hadn't done any research on temps. 70*C in BIOS, it never crashed or anything was perfectly stable, although I never really orthos'ed it or anything.
so basically, these chips are beasts. I put mine up to 1.8 in bios because I really wanted to get a 500mhz FSB, even at 1.8 it wouldn't do it though. in bios it was in the 70's on core temp high 70's low 80's.. lol


I may have gotten my hopes up about this new round of bios. 464FSB = my maximum stable bootable, after that it dies when it tries to turn on and disables the fsb you set, which is nice cause on the older bios it was flakey about this. although with the fsb changer I can do benchable up to 48x.

 

[Csst]

Becareful thats VERY HIGH TEMPS 70's are way to high for my taste but good luck also i have my vcore at 1.325 and i'm running 3.5 and my temps are at 37 idle and about 50 under full load also i can't get my any higher but still working on it.

 

[Pabster]

You are working on a very expensive keychain. :laugh:

 

[sanitydc]

lol i have the temps in the high 50's at load now- a good lapping a bigtyphoon do the trick.

 

[sanitydc]

Originally posted by: tran1981
I have the same ram. What is your vdimm? Is it on TURBO? Do u set your PCIe=100 or AUTO?

vdimm .6 so 2.15 I think, i'd have to double check to be sure.

 

[Pabster]

Originally posted by: sanitydc
vdimm .6 so 2.15 I think, i'd have to double check to be sure.

LOL, +0.6 puts it around 2.4V. You must be looking to fry some DDR2 too!

 

[sanitydc]

nah on everest it says 2.25*

 

[NoStateofMind]

Originally posted by: cmdrdredd

Originally posted by: Yoxxy
For that overclock it is a lot of voltage but I think it will be ok, C2d doesn't seem to fry very easily. I will ave a nice post up later showing how to kill a C2D. Damn thing hasn't died yet so I can't finish my post. E6300 is one voltage beast.

Hint: @1.83 volts (actual) C2D E6300 idles at 73 in bios under Tuniq Tower

*yawn* since when did purposely killing such a good and perfectly usable CPU become fun?

Well if he has the money to blow, let him. We will all benifit from it too. Just think of all those threads like "OMFG MY TEMPS!" and "IS THIS TOO HOT??". We will point to Yoxxy's thread and say it endured those temps/voltages for however much time.

Yoxxy, you have gotten my attention and look forward to see the results

Oh and don't forget the :camera:'s

 

[The-Noid]

Well first off the chip has a bad core that will fail orthos on stock voltage, stock temperatures. Second, it is already lapped so there is no way to get a new one under warranty.

Its also becoming increasily hard to kill, because starting at 1.8 volts the thing will not for the life go into windows. So I will have to kill it in bios. at 1.85 volts idle is 80 degrees. Going to see after 6 hours of that if it will still boot windows at stock tonight.

 

[Csst]

From what i understand and reading these chips shouldn't see any temps higher than 65 MAX even underload i beleive that's what there rated for i mean of course they will go higher but if the MAX is 65 and your idle at 80. boy i don't see that chip last very long. Also i don't see the BIO update for a F8 BIO on the page of gigabyte where are you seeing this i see the link, but i'm taking this is not a release from gigabyte?

 

[The-Noid]

tCaseMax is max for 24/7 operation for years. You can run chips well past thermal that will severly shorten their life expectancy. Heat + Voltage = short lived chip.

 

[thilanliyan]

Originally posted by: Csst
From what i understand and reading these chips shouldn't see any temps higher than 65 MAX even underload i beleive that's what there rated for i mean of course they will go higher but if the MAX is 65 and your idle at 80. boy i don't see that chip last very long. Also i don't see the BIO update for a F8 BIO on the page of gigabyte where are you seeing this i see the link, but i'm taking this is not a release from gigabyte?

I don't think Gigabyte puts beta bioses on their website. It's beta for a reason...if something goes wrong Gigabyte can't be held responsible.