Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L Thread

[caliryder]

Ok i have been going through this thread for some time now and I can't seem to figure out what is wrong. I have this board with the Q6600 and now that my water system is in i am starting my over clocking. At least i thought i was. I have some background in over clocking AMD's but this is my first Intel.
But to start of I have disabled the C1E and went and enabled the CPU host so i can mess with the FSB. Every time i try to boot with it enabled it automatically disables it on STOCK settings (9x266). Is there something else i need to disable before i start over clocking?
Thanks for the help

BTW Hello to everyone here. My name is Jake, i usually cruise Hardforums and extreme. This seems like a nice forum I will checking this out a lot more.

[crackzattic]

Originally Posted by caliryder

Ok i have been going through this thread for some time now and I can't seem to figure out what is wrong. I have this board with the Q6600 and now that my water system is in i am starting my over clocking. At least i thought i was. I have some background in over clocking AMD's but this is my first Intel.
But to start of I have disabled the C1E and went and enabled the CPU host so i can mess with the FSB. Every time i try to boot with it enabled it automatically disables it on STOCK settings (9x266). Is there something else i need to disable before i start over clocking?
Thanks for the help

BTW Hello to everyone here. My name is Jake, i usually cruise Hardforums and extreme. This seems like a nice forum I will checking this out a lot more.

goto the advanced bios section and disable C1E, EIST, (pretty much all of the options cept Visuialization and the memory option)

[crackzattic]

Originally Posted by toricred

I've been trying to keep it as close to, but just under 2.2v. Is it alright to go slightly above (i.e., 2.21v)? If I go to +.6, that's where I end up. I'm having some problems getting anything above 3.2 (9x355) stable.

my memory runs a little hot but it never crashes or BSOD at 3.3 and im at +.6 just if ur case is cool it should be fine im guessing though

[caliryder]

I got it , it was the USB legacy. Much better got it to 3.6 a little unstable but im there. further testing this week.

[crackzattic]

sweet bro good luck cant get mine past 3.3 cuz of my stupid memory

[RunFast]

I know this board does not support RAID...

The only bottleneck now is my slow 7200 drive...would love to up
that to 2 drives in RAID 0 preferbly, or just buy Raptor 10,000 rpm..

but I heard somewhere you can buy a card (PCI-e?) adapter
to make RAID possible on this board..Anybody know?

RTU! (ready to upgrade)

Thanks and

Aloha!

[caliryder]

ok i have a new question. I have been adjusting the Vcore Voltage to get a stable setting. Well Speedfan and CPU-Z are showing a lower core voltage than i have set. The only accurate volt reading is on speedfan's Vcore2. I have it set right now to 1.87 but CPU-Z and Vcore1 read 1.23? Any ideas?

[cptjharkness]

Originally Posted by RunFast

I know this board does not support RAID...

The only bottleneck now is my slow 7200 drive...would love to up
that to 2 drives in RAID 0 preferbly, or just buy Raptor 10,000 rpm..

but I heard somewhere you can buy a card (PCI-e?) adapter
to make RAID possible on this board..Anybody know?

RTU! (ready to upgrade)

Thanks and

Aloha!

Yeah i have a pci-e sata RAID card that supports up to 4 sata drives in RAID 0,1,0+1 and 5. It is very handy for this mobo and wasn't huge money, it cost me £35GBP (about$60us) from www.overclockers.co.uk. There are lots around but look around first as some of the cheap ones (like on ebay) have issues and can limit your speeds and bandwidth alot. Also i think that pci-e x1 or x4 is a better option over the cheaper pci ones out there as the pci-e ones have more bandwidth over the pci ones (i think).
Mine works very well and i get some very nice speeds with 4x 36gb raptors in RAID 0. Im no expert so i don't know how these cards compare to on board RAID but i have heard that some of them perform better.
Good luck.

[madroxinide]

Question, would increasing my pci-e frequency by about 5mhz be bad for my board? I read in another thread that a user got an increase of performance (3dmark06) by increasing his pci-e freq from 100 to 105mhz.

[toricred]

I tried a different stick of cheap memory I had laying around and got to 3.2 easily. I should probably leave well enough alone, but I just can't. If I'm going to replace my memory, I'd like to do it with good DDR2-800 memory. Any recommendations on a good brand? I'm looking at OCZ Gold, Corsair XMS2, or AData. Which would be best?