*** Official Gigabyte P965-DS3 Thread ***

[sanitydc]

also disconnected the cmos battery for most of it so that when it turned on bios were at default.

 

[thejunker]

Originally posted by: Ruhnie
I've got something strange happening to me when I try to OC on this board now. Even at a very small OC with my fsb @ 280 this happens. I can run memtest and Orthos fine for a couple of hours, but when I reboot to push the fsb up a little I get the problem.

I hear the fans come on, and the HD light shows activity, but I get no power to my mouse or keyboard, and my monitor gets no signal. I found that I can short cmos and reboot, but I also found that if I shut off the power and wait 10 minutes, it will boot up fine. The only difference is that BIOS has changed my settings back to optimized defaults.

Will it do this if the temps are too high? I'm running the stock HSF right now, and at idle I'm seeing 42-45C in Easy Tune and 55C in CoreTemp. At load I'm seeing 48-52 in Easy Tune and 66-71C in CoreTemp. I know this is pretty high, and I'll be getting another cooler, but I think it's strange that I'm seeing such high temps with such a small OC.
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Mine was doing the same thing on the stock cooler. I remounted mine 8 - 9 times using AS5 (used up a quarter tube doing it, thanks intel), and my temps were almost exaclt what you were seeing, yet the HS was not even remotely warm to the touch. Obviously, there was a contact (or lack thereof) issue.

Bought a Scythe Mine, popped that thing on, idle dropped to about 33 deg, load maxxed out around 50deg (core temp, speedfan reported much lower)

 

[Ruhnie]

Originally posted by: thejunker

Originally posted by: Ruhnie
I've got something strange happening to me when I try to OC on this board now. Even at a very small OC with my fsb @ 280 this happens. I can run memtest and Orthos fine for a couple of hours, but when I reboot to push the fsb up a little I get the problem.

I hear the fans come on, and the HD light shows activity, but I get no power to my mouse or keyboard, and my monitor gets no signal. I found that I can short cmos and reboot, but I also found that if I shut off the power and wait 10 minutes, it will boot up fine. The only difference is that BIOS has changed my settings back to optimized defaults.

Will it do this if the temps are too high? I'm running the stock HSF right now, and at idle I'm seeing 42-45C in Easy Tune and 55C in CoreTemp. At load I'm seeing 48-52 in Easy Tune and 66-71C in CoreTemp. I know this is pretty high, and I'll be getting another cooler, but I think it's strange that I'm seeing such high temps with such a small OC.
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Mine was doing the same thing on the stock cooler. I remounted mine 8 - 9 times using AS5 (used up a quarter tube doing it, thanks intel), and my temps were almost exaclt what you were seeing, yet the HS was not even remotely warm to the touch. Obviously, there was a contact (or lack thereof) issue.

Bought a Scythe Mine, popped that thing on, idle dropped to about 33 deg, load maxxed out around 50deg (core temp, speedfan reported much lower)

Yeah I think I'm going to skip trying to reseat the stock HSF, I am now convinced it is a POS. Dropping by Fry's tomorrow to pick up a TT BT. And I get a 3-day weekend to work on my OC

 

[GCS]

Spent some time reading this thread as I am ordering the DS3 and an E6400 tonight with the following ram Crucial Technology Ballistix BL2KIT12864AA804 2GB kit DDR2-800 PC2-6400.

After a rebate the total cost will be under $600.

Has anyone used this ram with this board yet??

Thanks

Greg

 

[Kougar]

I'm not going to read to far back into this thread, did anyone still have questions or issues with this board that they need help with?

It's strange to read about all of these temp issues, I think the mounting system is pretty flawed as a good number of people just aren't making solid contact when mounting some coolers. I never used the stock cooler on mine, however with a Zalman 7700Cu and everything STOCK, it would idle at 27c! With the below overclock settings, full system load with dual Prime95s it ranges 50-55c in Speedfan and CoreTemps don't go above 65c, usually 63c but my room temps blur the numbers around (About 70-75F here).


These are the system specs for the exact settings taken in the BIOS shots. DualPrime95 stable for 12+ hours, been folding@home with it for more than two weeks now ever since. Going to tear down the system and reinstall it to see about lowering those temps further with a Scythe Ninja and better quality 120mm fans. Already tried the F4 BIOS, have not noticed any differences between it and the older F4e beta, but all specs/shots are with the F4e.

Core 2 Duo E6300 1.86ghz @ 3.33ghz w/ Zalman CNPS7700-Cu (1.362vCore)
Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3 Motherboard (F4e BIOS)
2 x 1Gb Corsair DDR2-800 RAM @ 952mhz 5-5-5-15 (2v)
ATI 7000 PCI Graphics Card (Yeah, you read right, no "e" )
Antec NeoHE 550watt PSU / Antec P180-B Case ("Wind tunnel" effect/"mod" really is needed with this case!)
APC 1100 backUPS Pro (To game online when the power goes out )

GA-965P-DS3 F4e BIOS Pics:

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Link 6


I've seen some people using extremely high Vcores settings, but I don't believe it's needed if you can keep the heat down. If I raise the voltage the heat will get to high and the system would eventually go unstable. At least with this specific E6300, 1.356-1.362v is the sweet spot for 3.33ghz, any less is not fully stable with the second core and any more, and the heat will climb to much and eventually go unstable. I have left both the FSB and MCH voltages at stock, again to keep the heat down and raising it so far doesn't do anything except make the warm heatsinks too hot for my liking. I glued two small matching fans to both the MCH and ICH8 heatsinks anyway after I switched to the Ninja cooler.

Incase it wasn't mentioned previosuly in this thread, if you have a RAID array then do NOT use XpressRecovery2 that comes bootable off the Gigabyte driver CD. Simply loading into this program by mistake during the boot process then exiting out is known to kill your RAID array. I've lost two RAID 0 arrays to this problem myself before I even began to overclock anything.

 

[Hound]

if I try pushing my memory too hard I get that problem where it just keeps cycling and I have to clear CMOS. All CPU settings can be at default and if I push the latency and timings too far on the memory that will happen.

 

[DerComissar]

Originally posted by: sanitydc
Hey last night I was overclocking my 6400 on the ds3 I had it at 3.6ghz stable and 3.7ghz(unstable) but I wanted to try 3.8 just for the hell of it, After I tried it at 375x8 it booted into windows then gave me a blue screen with a memory dump, when it tried to restart basically nothing happened. The fan thats connected to the power supply directly turns on as does the dvd drive and the hard drive led comes up as well as the power LED, occasionally it will beep before it dies. but basically it tries to boot itself for about 8 seconds then shut down. I tried taking out the cmos batter and Im in the process of reseating everything but I have no idea whats going on.

Nice overclocks, but what fsb are you running for 3.4, etc.? I saw you posting 325x8 for 3.4 but that would actually be 2.6. I'm currently at 400x8 for 3.2.

 

[PClark99]

Shoot my board seems complete dead.

I just put together the following and when I power up there is nothing.

Antec 3700BQE
Gigabyte DS3
6300
Alpha cooler
2 x 1 GB Corsair PC6400 Cas5
X1900XT
2 x 320 GB SATA HDs
SATA Combo drive Liteon
Plextor 755SA
Silverstone ST60F Modular Cable.

Any advice is appreciated.

 

[Kougar]

PClark, have you stripped everything back down and rebuilt it yet, to not only ensure nothing is shorting anywhere but also to take care of any not fully seated hardware? If you've done that, what about trying it with only one memory stick inserted at a time? If still no POST or beeps, then remove the GPU with the memory installed and see if it will give you some beeps.

 

[crimson117]

PClark99, try it with nothing but mobo, one stick of ram, and video card connected.

 

[crimson117]

Originally posted by: DerComissar

Originally posted by: sanitydc
Hey last night I was overclocking my 6400 on the ds3 I had it at 3.6ghz stable and 3.7ghz(unstable) but I wanted to try 3.8 just for the hell of it, After I tried it at 375x8 it booted into windows then gave me a blue screen with a memory dump, when it tried to restart basically nothing happened. The fan thats connected to the power supply directly turns on as does the dvd drive and the hard drive led comes up as well as the power LED, occasionally it will beep before it dies. but basically it tries to boot itself for about 8 seconds then shut down. I tried taking out the cmos batter and Im in the process of reseating everything but I have no idea whats going on.

Nice overclocks, but what fsb are you running for 3.4, etc.? I saw you posting 325x8 for 3.4 but that would actually be 2.6. I'm currently at 400x8 for 3.2.

I think he meant 425. (425x8=3400). I don't know why he thought he should jump from 425 all the freaking way to 475 fsb when even 450 didn't work. Just asking to blow something out

 

[WWCephas]

Hi all, just getting back into overclocking (and Intels after a long AMD stint) and just wanted to be sure I was doing this right.

I have a DS3 with an e6300 and Patriot DDR667 memory.

So far I have not been able to get past 2.33 ghz on the cpu (@39C with Stock fan) due to what seems the memory's inability to go past 667mhz at all. (7x333 FSB with 2.0 memory multiplier).

Is there something I have missed (I did mildly increase memory voltage but that did not help) to enable higher FSB settings without increasing the memory bus speed or should I have bought either faster DDR2 or a higher multiplying Conroe?

Also I heard the Asus P5B now has unlocking ability of the cpu multiplier and also heard that Gigabyte may have this feature too (either now or in a future BIOS). My F4 BIOS allows me to pick 6x or 7x, is that normal or does this mean it is already unlocked but in the down direction only?

Thanks!

 

[crimson117]

WW: I'm currently reading through this overclocking guide, maybe you should give it a try?

 

[DerComissar]

Originally posted by: crimson117

Originally posted by: DerComissar

Originally posted by: sanitydc
Hey last night I was overclocking my 6400 on the ds3 I had it at 3.6ghz stable and 3.7ghz(unstable) but I wanted to try 3.8 just for the hell of it, After I tried it at 375x8 it booted into windows then gave me a blue screen with a memory dump, when it tried to restart basically nothing happened. The fan thats connected to the power supply directly turns on as does the dvd drive and the hard drive led comes up as well as the power LED, occasionally it will beep before it dies. but basically it tries to boot itself for about 8 seconds then shut down. I tried taking out the cmos batter and Im in the process of reseating everything but I have no idea whats going on.

Nice overclocks, but what fsb are you running for 3.4, etc.? I saw you posting 325x8 for 3.4 but that would actually be 2.6. I'm currently at 400x8 for 3.2.

I think he meant 425. (425x8=3400). I don't know why he thought he should jump from 425 all the freaking way to 475 fsb when even 450 didn't work. Just asking to blow something out

Thanks, crimson117.
I thought my math was haywire for a minute there.
Great overclocking guide you linked, very good C2D-specific tips. I'm having to re-learn a lot since I jumped back on the Intel train after running a Sandy 3700 then an Opteron 148 previously.

 

[Abel007]

Anyone tried running 32-bit VISTA with this RAID array? I can't find any drivers that VISTA will recognize.

 

[Ausm]

Originally posted by: PClark99
Shoot my board seems complete dead.

I just put together the following and when I power up there is nothing.

Antec 3700BQE
Gigabyte DS3
6300
Alpha cooler
2 x 1 GB Corsair PC6400 Cas5
X1900XT
2 x 320 GB SATA HDs
SATA Combo drive Liteon
Plextor 755SA
Silverstone ST60F Modular Cable.

Any advice is appreciated.

Pull the mobo out and put it on a NONconductive surface and fire it up with just the video card and memory stick and see if it posts. If it does you have a grounding problem.

Ausm

 

[crimson117]

Originally posted by: DerComissar
Great overclocking guide you linked, very good C2D-specific tips. I'm having to re-learn a lot since I jumped back on the Intel train after running a Sandy 3700 then an Opteron 148 previously.

It seems to be a great guide, but following it I couldn't get my E6300 to go higher than stock. Using DS3 and A-DATA Vitesta DDR2-533. Anything beyond stock either gave a million memtest errors or failed prime95 within 5 minutes.

I never have any luck overclocking

 

[Ruhnie]

Originally posted by: crimson117

Originally posted by: DerComissar
Great overclocking guide you linked, very good C2D-specific tips. I'm having to re-learn a lot since I jumped back on the Intel train after running a Sandy 3700 then an Opteron 148 previously.

It seems to be a great guide, but following it I couldn't get my E6300 to go higher than stock. Using DS3 and A-DATA Vitesta DDR2-533. Anything beyond stock either gave a million memtest errors or failed prime95 within 5 minutes.

I never have any luck overclocking

In case you guys missed it, there is another great thread on this board over @ XtremeSystems. Lot's of OC help there.

 

[Ausm]

Originally posted by: Ruhnie

Originally posted by: crimson117

Originally posted by: DerComissar
Great overclocking guide you linked, very good C2D-specific tips. I'm having to re-learn a lot since I jumped back on the Intel train after running a Sandy 3700 then an Opteron 148 previously.

It seems to be a great guide, but following it I couldn't get my E6300 to go higher than stock. Using DS3 and A-DATA Vitesta DDR2-533. Anything beyond stock either gave a million memtest errors or failed prime95 within 5 minutes.

I never have any luck overclocking

In case you guys missed it, there is another great thread on this board over @ XtremeSystems. Lot's of OC help there.

That site is dead for me.

Ausm

 

[Ruhnie]

Originally posted by: Ausm

Originally posted by: Ruhnie

Originally posted by: crimson117

Originally posted by: DerComissar
Great overclocking guide you linked, very good C2D-specific tips. I'm having to re-learn a lot since I jumped back on the Intel train after running a Sandy 3700 then an Opteron 148 previously.

It seems to be a great guide, but following it I couldn't get my E6300 to go higher than stock. Using DS3 and A-DATA Vitesta DDR2-533. Anything beyond stock either gave a million memtest errors or failed prime95 within 5 minutes.

I never have any luck overclocking

In case you guys missed it, there is another great thread on this board over @ XtremeSystems. Lot's of OC help there.

That site is dead for me.

Ausm

Yeah it seems to have been having some problems the last couple of days, not sure what's going on. Check it again later on, it's worth it.

 

[skinnyj]

im thinking about getting this board and paring it up with some corsair 675 and an e6400.

i dont have a floppy drive though and didnt really want to buy one, i have a usb floppy drive but that wont work since im in bios?

also im assuming it will come with f3, and ive never really updated my bios before on any system. So is it just a pretty simple thing chose location and it runs or?

 

[Pabster]

Originally posted by: GCS
Spent some time reading this thread as I am ordering the DS3 and an E6400 tonight with the following ram Crucial Technology Ballistix BL2KIT12864AA804 2GB kit DDR2-800 PC2-6400.

After a rebate the total cost will be under $600.

Has anyone used this ram with this board yet??

Thanks

Greg

I haven't used Ballistix but I've used plain-label Crucial modules with no trouble. Shouldn't have any problems. Crucial is excellent RAM with great support.

 

[skinnyj]

whats the difference between the p965 and the g965

 

[Pabster]

G has Intel on-board video. Sucky, of course, save for an office machine / non-gamer.

 

[AlbusD]

Hi saymyname:

I bought 2 GB of Corsair XMS2 DDR2 800 from Newegg recently ($229 less a $40 rebate that unfortunately has expired) and it runs great with the Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3 and an E6600. Just today I checked it with Memtest86 and it came through fine. Hope that helps.