Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L Thread

[TheGuac]

Hello,

I actually have a thread on it already but nothing's really worked yet, though the advice has been helpful. When I did get it to overclock, it was random and went away once I shut down. My temps were not high (50C load) so I can't imagine it was the temperatures. Basically, I've seen one person in another forum on another website referring it as a "cold boot" problem, since settings don't revert back if you restart. Basically, after you shut down, settings that used to work with overclocking don't anymore and you can't get past 2.4 ghz at all. When I do overclock, I go slowly, but even changing FSB to like 275 mhz and increasing voltages to high levels yields no response. When I overclocked briefly, my voltages were all normal except for CPU, which I changed to 1.425. I'm beginning to think that it may be gigabyte's fault on this one, so I might just call it quits and get another motherboard like the 650 or 680i or asus. I am confounded.

[okorn]

Be careful with your ram settings. Have you checked that?

You should easily hit 3Ghz

[p00ndawg]

Alright, how do you actually up the clock speed on this board?

[MikersSU]

What BIOS is everyone using on this board? I've tried F5 which came preloaded with the board but besides being able to actually save my OC profile correctly, everything else sucked.

I could not reach the same OC I had with F3 BIOS. All in all, I'm pleased with the board (convert from Asus) but I miss the detailed voltage controls and RAM divider manipulation that I had with a pricier Asus board.

Also, once I press CTRL F1 to access the detailed RAM settings, am I supposed to manually set the timings besides the usual suspects? I have my memory set to 4-4-4-12 @ 2.1v (Corsair 6400C4 XMS2). In other words, I'm talking about the 5 or 6 other timing stuff that comes up. Am I supposed to write down what CPU-Z says?

Currently, I have my Q6600 at 3.4Ghz using the stock x9 multi with FSB at 380. My memory however is at 760 with divider at 2.00. I don't mind the lower speed since I do have fairly tight timings. Oh, how the heck do I set the Command Rate on the memory? I can't find it in the BIOS.

EDIT: My VCore is 1.4 - I was too lazy to take the VCore down a little and test out stability at lower settings. With Vdroop, it reads 1.355 at idle. I also upped the voltage on FSB by 0.1 and MCH by 0.1 as well.

[SgtSpike]

I'm using the default BIOS that came with the board. Not at home, so I can't check the version. I'm not sure about the other 5 or 6 timings that you're talking about, whether to set them manually or not. I wondered about that myself.

How far were you able to get on your Asus board, and what do you think is holding you back on this one? I have noticed that the vdroop on this board is pretty terrible, but I haven't done any research on volt-modding it yet.

[okorn]

Originally Posted by MikersSU

What BIOS is everyone using on this board? I've tried F5 which came preloaded with the board but besides being able to actually save my OC profile correctly, everything else sucked.

I could not reach the same OC I had with F3 BIOS. All in all, I'm pleased with the board (convert from Asus) but I miss the detailed voltage controls and RAM divider manipulation that I had with a pricier Asus board.

Also, once I press CTRL F1 to access the detailed RAM settings, am I supposed to manually set the timings besides the usual suspects? I have my memory set to 4-4-4-12 @ 2.1v (Corsair 6400C4 XMS2). In other words, I'm talking about the 5 or 6 other timing stuff that comes up. Am I supposed to write down what CPU-Z says?

Currently, I have my Q6600 at 3.4Ghz using the stock x9 multi with FSB at 380. My memory however is at 760 with divider at 2.00. I don't mind the lower speed since I do have fairly tight timings. Oh, how the heck do I set the Command Rate on the memory? I can't find it in the BIOS.

EDIT: My VCore is 1.4 - I was too lazy to take the VCore down a little and test out stability at lower settings. With Vdroop, it reads 1.355 at idle. I also upped the voltage on FSB by 0.1 and MCH by 0.1 as well.

Nice 3.4

I would try to lower timings and increase de Mhz

[Criswell]

E6700 @ 3.510 GHz, 351 FSB, 1.5Vcore..

I had it running at 438 x 8 to run 3.504 GHz and actually had CPU at 3.6 with a 400 x 9 setting, but this CPU requires too much voltage to run anything past 3.5 Stable..

This board is great though, I highly recommend getting a new NB cooler though, the Thermalright HR-05 SLI/IFX is what I use since the Thermalright Ultra 120-eXtreme cannot be used with the normal HR-05 unless the HSF is mounted sideways...

Great motherboard for the price.

Also has my RAM at 4-3-3-4 timings at DDR2-842 and just scored a 3DMark06 of 11,078 about 3 mins ago..

[SgtSpike]

Awesome, great OC man.

[rcf22]

Hey guys, just built my system (as seen in the sig) and I'm trying to start OC'ing it. I set the FSB to 353MHz with a multiplier of 8 to try to get started, but when I open CPU-Z, it says that my multiplier is set at 6. Which of these is correct, and if it is at 6, how can I change it to 8 when that's what th BIOS already says?...

[SgtSpike]

That's the Intel SpeedStep technology stepping in... it's reducing the speed of your CPU to save power. Watch what happens to your mutliplier in CPU-Z when you put your CPU under 100% load.

Disable SpeedStep or C1E in the BIOS to keep it from kicking in. I can't remember what it's called on this board in particular, and I'm not home to check it at the moment. Let me know if you have any trouble doing that.