Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L Thread

[Boomstick68]

I'm using F8a with an E8400. 24/7 overclock of 445/9 with 1.328v. I am pretty sure my memory is holding me back from going higher. Currently running DDR2 800 @890mhz. I want to use DDR2 1066 but I was wondering which ones work well with this board. Also, would it make much difference if I had 2gig X 2 or 1gig X 4.

[smokinbonz]

Originally Posted by Boomstick68

I'm using F8a with an E8400. 24/7 overclock of 445/9 with 1.328v. I am pretty sure my memory is holding me back from going higher. Currently running DDR2 800 @890mhz. I want to use DDR2 1066 but I was wondering which ones work well with this board. Also, would it make much difference if I had 2gig X 2 or 1gig X 4.

I believe its better to have 2 sticks , less stress on the chipset or something, what are your mem timings now , you should get more speed out of them .

check out the ballistics club and the speeds there.

I am not positive but i belive the ballistics Pc8500 are basically the same as the 6400 chips , so the same speeds are possible.

I run mine at 1Ghz 3:5 , I think thats good

[gibsonnova74]

ok gentlemen, forgive me if this has been asked before, i didn't feel like reading all 148 pages to see if my question has been asked before. i want to flash my bios, the board i want to flash is running F4.(p35-ds3l) can i flash this board without a floppy. i tried the quick flash, it looks like it requires a floppy drive. can you guys please shed some light on this for me?

[ve9jmc]

ok maybe someone here can shed a little light or help me with this particular problem. i gave a GA-P35-DS3L mobo and a E2160 cpu, now i don't have any problems so to speak, the issue i am running into is that when i overclock my system if i am in the bios it show's that i am over clocked by the settings. but as soon as i save my settings and exit it shows me at the boot screen that i am still at the stock speed of 1.8Ghz. here are the setting that i have in my bios. maybe i'm missing something.

CIE- Disabled
TM2- Disabled
EIST- disabled
CPU clock ratio- 9x
CPU frequency- shows 3.00Ghz
Cpu host Clock Control- Enabled
CPU host Frequency- 333Mhz
PCI Express Frequency- 100
CIA2- Disabled
Performance enhance- standard
SYStem Memory Multiplier- 2.00
memory frequency- 667 667


those are the settings i am currently using. now at one point in time when i was running windows Xp i could see the over clock in windows, but now i'm using windows Vista Ultimate, and CPU-z or DXDIAG are bith reporting that the cpu speed is back to stock at 1.8Ghz(200x9) now if i load up Easy tune 5 Pro i get an error message, basically it won't let me into any of the options. the error message reads : This feature is currently being disabled due to either your motherboard doesn't support overclocking feature or the Dynamic power saver feature is enabled. this error mesage didn't make any sense to me as i have had this over clocked before.

also i'm not running on a stock cooler, i have the Coolermaster Hyper 6+ to cool the cpu.

If anyone has an idea could you pass it forward. i would give it a try as i'd like to get my overclock back.
Thanks

[Plasmah]

gibsonnova74 HI

Yea you can flash from a USB thumb drive if you have one.
Here is info on how to do that.

http://www.bootdisk.com/pendrive.htm

Hope that helps

[ve9jmc]

Originally Posted by ve9jmc

ok maybe someone here can shed a little light or help me with this particular problem. i gave a GA-P35-DS3L mobo and a E2160 cpu, now i don't have any problems so to speak, the issue i am running into is that when i overclock my system if i am in the bios it show's that i am over clocked by the settings. but as soon as i save my settings and exit it shows me at the boot screen that i am still at the stock speed of 1.8Ghz. here are the setting that i have in my bios. maybe i'm missing something.

CIE- Disabled
TM2- Disabled
EIST- disabled
CPU clock ratio- 9x
CPU frequency- shows 3.00Ghz
Cpu host Clock Control- Enabled
CPU host Frequency- 333Mhz
PCI Express Frequency- 100
CIA2- Disabled
Performance enhance- standard
SYStem Memory Multiplier- 2.00
memory frequency- 667 667


those are the settings i am currently using. now at one point in time when i was running windows Xp i could see the over clock in windows, but now i'm using windows Vista Ultimate, and CPU-z or DXDIAG are bith reporting that the cpu speed is back to stock at 1.8Ghz(200x9) now if i load up Easy tune 5 Pro i get an error message, basically it won't let me into any of the options. the error message reads : This feature is currently being disabled due to either your motherboard doesn't support overclocking feature or the Dynamic power saver feature is enabled. this error mesage didn't make any sense to me as i have had this over clocked before.

also i'm not running on a stock cooler, i have the Coolermaster Hyper 6+ to cool the cpu.

If anyone has an idea could you pass it forward. i would give it a try as i'd like to get my overclock back.
Thanks

*bump*
Any suggestion anoyone?

[crackzattic]

Originally Posted by ve9jmc

*bump*
Any suggestion anoyone?

the only thing i can suggest is bump up the voltages or stop trying to go for 3.0 and just try 2.6 then 2.8 and go from there. it might just be that ur cpu wont OC well. and what i mean by that is that you know every cpu is different and some just dont OC well.

[crackzattic]

Originally Posted by Silviastud

Using it and it's working fine for my 3.6ghz 24/7 clock.

does it run any better for ur Q6600 than F7? im stuck right now and cant OC past 3.0 cuz my ram is bad and i have to RMA them.

[Silviastud]

Originally Posted by crackzattic

does it run any better for ur Q6600 than F7? im stuck right now and cant OC past 3.0 cuz my ram is bad and i have to RMA them.

Never tried out the f7, from the day I got my board I flashed it before even attempting an overclock.

[ve9jmc]

Originally Posted by crackzattic

the only thing i can suggest is bump up the voltages or stop trying to go for 3.0 and just try 2.6 then 2.8 and go from there. it might just be that ur cpu wont OC well. and what i mean by that is that you know every cpu is different and some just dont OC well.

ok i forgot to mention that the settings i posted erlier are the exact settings that are in my bios right now but my boot screen and CPU-Z reads that it is still clocked at 1.8Gbut my system does not go through the 2 or 3 reboots that it will usually go through if i get the wrong overclock settings, plus i failed to mention that my cpu voltage is set to 1.456v, i had a 3 to a 3.3ghz overclock until i installed Windows Vista Ultimate.