Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L Thread

[Nightfale]

hey,
can u guys help me with shutting down speedstep in the bios? cant rly find it...
pls maybe a picture if anyone wants to do it for me?
ofc im using a GIGABYTE GA-P35-DS3L

hope you can help me with this :P

Night

[Dylan]

Originally Posted by Nightfale

hey,
can u guys help me with shutting down speedstep in the bios? cant rly find it...
pls maybe a picture if anyone wants to do it for me?
ofc im using a GIGABYTE GA-P35-DS3L

hope you can help me with this :P

Night

its under advanced bios features as EIST and the surrounding settings as well

[Nightfale]

Originally Posted by Dylan

its under advanced bios features as EIST and the surrounding settings as well

ty ill check it when i come home

[Nightfale]

Do i have to put them out both? or just one?:P

[jinja_ninja]

Just won a DS3R on Ebay

I got it about $40 cheaper as apparently the NB Heatsink is a bit "loose". I'm sure I can fix that

[PGT96AJT]

Originally Posted by jinja_ninja

Just won a DS3R on Ebay

I got it about $40 cheaper as apparently the NB Heatsink is a bit "loose". I'm sure I can fix that

Hopefully the didn't burn up the nbridge with it being loose.

[NP2H]

Originally Posted by PGT96AJT

Hopefully the didn't burn up the nbridge with it being loose.

Agreed

[NP2H]

Originally Posted by justadude

Sorry NP2H, didn't mean it as an insult, I just don't understand. If I run at a full 10x multi, I wouldn't max out the ram. No matter what multi/fsb I use, I can't get over 3GHz, and it's taking me 1.488 VC to get there.

I'm just busting your balls.

You said your memory is DDR2-667. Your FSB is 333. The smallest memory multiplier you can use would then be 2.0 x 333 = 666. Therefore, if you raised the FSB any more, you would be raising the DDR clock higher than 666, which may cause instability. It's all linked.

[NP2H]

Originally Posted by Tomtin

Hey very informative thread!!

I have actually read it in its entirety. It has helped me with overclocking my rig. I am a newb so any advice you can give me would be appreciated.

I have OCed to 3.24 ghz(360 x9). Cpu-z core voltage reads 1.312 but bios reads 1.38750.

Memory timings are 4 4 4 12, multiplier at 2.0 at 2.1v. Running at 720mhz (I probably need to get this closer to 800 right?). I could easily get it to run at 800mhz if I chose to knock back the cpu to 3.0ghz but would that be better?

Just ran prime test for a few hours with a max temp of 47C (and mid 20's idle). I didn't see it go past that temp AT ALL. However, I cannot exceed 3.24ghz and be stable. If I go slightly past that (10mhz), prime crashes and if I go past that, it won't even post. This is of course with raising the respective vcore (raising it at least 4-5 notches still won't let me post). Have I reached my limit? If so, that's fine. I just want to know if I have though since my temps are still pretty low.

Other important settings are as follows:
PCI express freq - 100mhz
PCI-E overvoltage control +.1v
FSB overvoltage control +.1v
(g)mch overvoltage control +.1v
(The preceding 3 I read somewhere, maybe not here, that it would maintain stability if I raised a .1 for all 3. Please let me know if I'm wrong)

I tried to run a higher fsb with a x8 multiplier but that would not work for me at all. I also disabled both CPU EIST Function and C1E.

I would definately take a hit of 200mhz on the proc to raise the memory 80 mhz.

You probably don't need any of those +0.1v to be honest.

Your problem is your Vcore still isn't high enough. I can't achieve true stability at 3.20ghz unless BIOS 1.3875v (Actual Vcore atleast 1.3275). Kick it up some more, it takes MUCH more once you get that high.

[jinja_ninja]

Originally Posted by PGT96AJT

Hopefully the didn't burn up the nbridge with it being loose.

You sometimes gotta take risks to get bargains

My 8800GT had a faulty fan, but its working and overclocking like a charm. I saved $70 because of the stock HSF being faulty.

If the board doesn't work, I could still sell it on ebay for about 25% less than what I bought it for.