Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L Thread

[Visceral]

After a week or so of tweaking the q6600, this is what I can get:

3402

Voltage was tricky because of vdrop or whatever it's called. I had to pump 1.543 volts into it due to the drop, I'm watching cpuz and it records core voltage at 1.488. Of course, this drop during load, so it actually goes lower but never over 1.5

Temps, meh. Idle, just sitting there, I'm at 43,43,39,43. Load, the highest it hits is 71 before dropping back down to 70. Since I figure there's no known game or application in the world that's going to require a load scenario, I figure temps should remain lower than that by a margin.

Does this sound sustainable, typical for a q6600 overclock?

[Mikecdm]

Originally Posted by Visceral

After a week or so of tweaking the q6600, this is what I can get:

3402

Voltage was tricky because of vdrop or whatever it's called. I had to pump 1.543 volts into it due to the drop, I'm watching cpuz and it records core voltage at 1.488. Of course, this drop during load, so it actually goes lower but never over 1.5

Temps, meh. Idle, just sitting there, I'm at 43,43,39,43. Load, the highest it hits is 71 before dropping back down to 70. Since I figure there's no known game or application in the world that's going to require a load scenario, I figure temps should remain lower than that by a margin.

Does this sound sustainable, typical for a q6600 overclock?

I'd say that 3.4ghz is a pretty reasonable o/c on a Q6600. Most people like going for 3.6ghz but the truth is that not all of us can reach it. I have tried and tried but I can't seem to get stable at 3.6ghz. I can run 3.5ghz but not 3.6. I do think that your voltage is too high for 3.4ghz though. You can also do the pencil mod to help out with the vdroop. If you have a multimeter and a pencil you can take care of most of the vdroop.

[The_Nightshift]

I'm having a bit of difficulty OCing my E8400 (see my signature for the system's hardware). At 3.45 GHz on stock voltage (using 8.5 * 406, with the memory mult dropped to 2.4 to keep it at a reasonable speed [although that means it's slightly underclocked at the moment]) I can get well over an hour of orthos (never errored, but I didn't leave it running longer). However, when I increase the FSB to 412 MHz it becomes dramatically more unstable (it will either fail Orthos within 15 minutes or reset after that amount of time). I've tried maxing out both the FSB and NB voltages, and increasing the VCORE to 1.25 V, but the results have remained unchanged (temperatures are well within acceptable limits, with the CPU maxing out at 48C under orthos load even with the higher VCORE, and the NB stays at 35, so it's not heat). Any suggestions?

[thethriller]

You're probably going to need a vcore bump to overclock further... you're not going to hurt anything going to 1.35v to see if that's the culprit. Unless you got really unlucky with that chip, or your mobo isn't willing to do high fsb, you should have no problem getting past 3.45Ghz.

[The_Nightshift]

Originally Posted by thethriller

You're probably going to need a vcore bump to overclock further... you're not going to hurt anything going to 1.35v to see if that's the culprit. Unless you got really unlucky with that chip, or your mobo isn't willing to do high fsb, you should have no problem getting past 3.45Ghz.

One of those must be the case, because the additional CPU voltage changed nothing. I'm going to try starting the overclocking process over using the default 9 multiplier, instead of the 8.5 that I was using (I had been told that 8.5 was the E8400's sweet spot, but that's not worth much if you can't push the FSB far enough to matter).

[///M3]

I'm getting ready to buy a Q6600 any minute now and have decided to go with this board, I think. I can't find many reviews on the newer EP35-DS3L model but the older one seems to be a decent board for overclocking a Q6600. I don't need RAID so the DS3R would be a waste(except for the extra USB ports). I'm not a big gamer either so SLi isn't needed.

I guess my question is does anyone here own the newer EP35 model/ How does it overclock and is it just as good as the older P35? If I don't use DES it should be the same board pretty much right? I can get either one and I don't know what to do. I thought about the Asus P5E-VM HDMI but I already have the Zotac 8800gts card coming soon so I don't need the IGP or HDMI port. Any suggestions?


Thanks!

Justin

[redalert]

I just got a Q9450 and OCZ vendetta 2 today for this board wondering what kind of OC I can get with it. I would like to get to 3.4 for everyday use just wondering what vcore is likely to achive that due to the vdrop on the board. I would like to avoid setting the voltage above 1.4

[Gauvenator]

Originally Posted by redalert

I just got a Q9450 and OCZ vendetta 2 today for this board wondering what kind of OC I can get with it. I would like to get to 3.4 for everyday use just wondering what vcore is likely to achive that due to the vdrop on the board. I would like to avoid setting the voltage above 1.4

Don't go above 1.3625v. The electronmigration is horrible above that, and detrimental to the chip's lifespan.

[redalert]

Originally Posted by Gauvenator

Don't go above 1.3625v. The electronmigration is horrible above that, and detrimental to the chip's lifespan.

thanks for that is what its at right now was at 1.375. I have been playing around with settings 3.4 probably wont happen maybe 3.2 though. I can get into windows but BSOD maybe upping the fsb or nb voltage may help. Currently running orthos large FFTs @1140mhz. My E6750 was much more OC friendly

[Gauvenator]

Originally Posted by redalert

thanks for that is what its at right now was at 1.375. I have been playing around with settings 3.4 probably wont happen maybe 3.2 though. I can get into windows but BSOD maybe upping the fsb or nb voltage may help. Currently running orthos large FFTs @1140mhz. My E6750 was much more OC friendly

probably more fsb or nb would help as you will need a high fsb to get 3.2 or 3.4.