Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L Thread

[Basheron]

OK, that makes sense. I am looking into options to keep the memory bandwidth high since I paid a little extra for the 1066. I'll keep y'all posted with my final results.

[TriBeCa]

Originally Posted by SgtSpike

And finally, the most likely reason why people in this thread are running their memory at 800mhz (or thereabouts) is because most of us only have 800mhz memory, and attempting to run it at 1066mhz usually proves to be futile.

Heh, my 800MHz corsair dominators run at 1066 just fine...the only issue is that provides exactly 0 performance benefit For some reason every speed I've tried over 830MHz adds ~20ms to the latency benchmark...I blame the MCH on my P5N-E, which is one more reason I'm eyeing this board....

Incidentally - how well does 4 x 1GB RAM run in this board? There's a huge MIR on the corsairs I have, so I may pick another pair of sticks. Does running the extra RAM tend to hurt people OCing results at all?

[NP2H]

Originally Posted by TriBeCa

Heh, my 800MHz corsair dominators run at 1066 just fine...the only issue is that provides exactly 0 performance benefit For some reason every speed I've tried over 830MHz adds ~20ms to the latency benchmark...I blame the MCH on my P5N-E, which is one more reason I'm eyeing this board....

Incidentally - how well does 4 x 1GB RAM run in this board? There's a huge MIR on the corsairs I have, so I may pick another pair of sticks. Does running the extra RAM tend to hurt people OCing results at all?

I run 4 x 1 gb of probably the worst RAM in terms of really overclocking it. I think the best I can do is 800 with 5-5-4-15.

If it's running 667, I can do 4-4-4-12. But those are all within its ratings. Anything over 800 at most any timing and it pretty much craps out.

However, it doesn't effect any other aspect of overclocking; including stability. This also includes when I run at 400x9 = 3.6ghz.

So, even with crappy RAM (in terms of its own overclocking) the setup does fine with 4x1gb.

[TriBeCa]

great, thanks.

[info]

I will appreciate some suggestions on my OC with this board:

E2200 CPU with Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L
OCZ 2x1GB DDR2 800 4-4-4-15

Here are some settings:
Mem multiplier: 2
PCIE frequency: 100MHz,
DDR2 overvoltage: +0.3 (or +0.4)

Then I tried a whole LOT of combinations of vcore, CPU multipliers, and FSB. The best I can do is the following when I can just enter windows (didn't test the stability yet):
266MHz x 11 = 2.93GHz with 1.45 vcore with CPU temp (idle) 42 C.

This is very very frustrating. The stock speed of E2200 is 2.2Ghz. Somehow it looks like I can hardly push to 3GHz. I can't increase the FSB much. Any bus speed higher than 266MHz causes windows to freeze when booting.

Any suggestions or list of OC parameters are appreciated.

[SgtSpike]

Originally Posted by info

I will appreciate some suggestions on my OC with this board:

E2200 CPU with Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L
OCZ 2x1GB DDR2 800 4-4-4-15

Here are some settings:
Mem multiplier: 2
PCIE frequency: 100MHz,
DDR2 overvoltage: +0.3 (or +0.4)

Then I tried a whole LOT of combinations of vcore, CPU multipliers, and FSB. The best I can do is the following when I can just enter windows (didn't test the stability yet):
266MHz x 11 = 2.93GHz with 1.45 vcore with CPU temp (idle) 42 C.

This is very very frustrating. The stock speed of E2200 is 2.2Ghz. Somehow it looks like I can hardly push to 3GHz. I can't increase the FSB much. Any bus speed higher than 266MHz causes windows to freeze when booting.

Any suggestions or list of OC parameters are appreciated.

Try bumping up your vcore a few... to 1.35 or 1.375 and see if that helps.

[TriBeCa]

his vcore is at 1.45v.

maybe MCH voltage? I dunno, I don't have this board yet

But it might not be helping that you have vdimm overvoltage set - by my count your RAM is hugely underclocked, so it shouldn't need extra voltage.

[Plasmah]

Hey Sarge

I'm building a new system based on your fav Mobo and I will report back when its complete. It will be a few weeks but its coming =).

I going with a q6600 and 4 gigs DDR 1066 ram. And it will be water cooled.

[losttsol]

Originally Posted by Plasmah

Hey Sarge

I'm building a new system based on your fav Mobo and I will report back when its complete. It will be a few weeks but its coming =).

I going with a q6600 and 4 gigs DDR 1066 ram. And it will be water cooled.

Very cool. I am looking forward to seeing pictures.

[info]

Originally Posted by TriBeCa

his vcore is at 1.45v.

maybe MCH voltage? I dunno, I don't have this board yet

But it might not be helping that you have vdimm overvoltage set - by my count your RAM is hugely underclocked, so it shouldn't need extra voltage.

Thanks. I tried +0.1v for MCH voltage, and didn't see any obvious effect