Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L Thread

[Rpg2]

Originally Posted by Arbitr

thanks..

I guess I will go this route. In BIOS, things like smart lan dont do anything, its just blank.

I contacted gigabyte, but dont expect to hear back until monday. I really doubt I will take everything out for an RMA, seems asinine for a 14 dollar fix. I still shouldn't have to. I just got this to stable overclock, and I don't want to risk another chipset behaving different (good results)

That sucks to hear. You're OCed E8400 is really good. You still have up to 1.36v in BIOS so you have plenty of headroom for OCing. I think you could squeeze 4.2 out of that chip.

[Arbitr]

Originally Posted by Rpg2

That sucks to hear. You're OCed E8400 is really good. You still have up to 1.36v in BIOS so you have plenty of headroom for OCing. I think you could squeeze 4.2 out of that chip.

I have nearly 10c in load temp headroom before the 70c mark becomes the norm as well.

I'm at 1.325 in bios prior to vdrop, 1.28 idle, and 1.26vdroop.

I have hit the memory wall, I have not produced a single error inoverclocking, and I don't want to push it.


On top of that I am running 445 fsb with only +.1 on the mch. No other volt changes aside from vcore, all stock.

[Rpg2]

Originally Posted by Arbitr

I have nearly 10c in load temp headroom before the 70c mark becomes the norm as well.

I'm at 1.325 in bios prior to vdrop, 1.28 idle, and 1.26vdroop.

I have hit the memory wall, I have not produced a single error inoverclocking, and I don't want to push it.


On top of that I am running 445 fsb with only +.1 on the mch. No other volt changes aside from vcore, all stock.

Oh. What's the max temp on 45nm chips? I'd like to know since I'll be grabbing one soon. I know 65nm chips are good up to 71C, but I think 45nm were good for 60C or something.

[Arbitr]

Originally Posted by Rpg2

Oh. What's the max temp on 45nm chips? I'd like to know since I'll be grabbing one soon. I know 65nm chips are good up to 71C, but I think 45nm were good for 60C or something.

My own limit is around 65c based upon research. However, I think spikes to 70c during occt, etc are ok, just as long as it doesn't sit there.

currently I run around mid 50s, then some spikes to low 60s when in prime or OCCT. My room is around 30c ambient, so that sucks too.

[Gauvenator]

Originally Posted by Rpg2

Oh. What's the max temp on 45nm chips? I'd like to know since I'll be grabbing one soon. I know 65nm chips are good up to 71C, but I think 45nm were good for 60C or something.

the current 45nm duals are good up to 74°C. The older revision 65nm could only go to 60°C, so I imagine a later revision of these 45nm will be able to withstand higher temperatures.

[nod32]

i think i saw that the e8400 is safe up to 72.5 C officially from intel

[Rpg2]

Ok, thanks guys! These chips sure can take a good amount of heat. They run cooler too! Big plus to get 45nm over 65nm chips.

Too bad they die quickly when you feed them too much voltage.

[Gauvenator]

Originally Posted by Rpg2

Ok, thanks guys! These chips sure can take a good amount of heat. They run cooler too! Big plus to get 45nm over 65nm chips.

Too bad they die quickly when you feed them too much voltage.

the voltage thing makes me sad...I could take this chip so far with my watercooling...

[mustkill]

i cant update my bios... when i ran it... i get this error:

[justadude]

Howdy all! I've been trying to fold, and have run into all sorts of problems. I'm wondering if the folding just brought to light some instabilities I didn't know about. So...here's the story:

I was folding fine with 2xtext versions. Then I tried GPU folding and the madness insued. The comp started out ok, turned in a couple few WUs...then my wife tells me the living room was bright when she got up to feed the baby during the night. Sure enough...the comp was in a reboot cycle. After further investigation, I'm pretty sure it was gpu driver + gpu folding issue. So, long story short, I gave up on GPU, rolled back to straight up nvidia 175.1(whatever, 9 i think), and all seemed well.

So, then I realized that my system could probably do one smp, which would be better ppd than 2 text. I turned in one WU, then crashes and BSODs. Kept trying, turned in one more, then I got a crazy BSOD that resulted in booting back up with absolute minimum video settings, and no access to the video card. I didn't have time to mess with it, so I shut down and left if for a few days.

I booted it back up, and it worked, said it had recovered from a serious registry problem, and had (gone back to a previous version or something). I tried SMP one more time, and got a reboot at some point, it never turned in the WU (but I think it was completed and tried to turn it in, I can't remember all the erros). I'm also now having consistent IE crashes. It just sort of freezes up, and I either have to bring up the task manager to kill it or wait awhile while it dies.

settings: cpuV - ~1.26 (1.2 load); RAM 2.0(4? - +4 in bios); mch +.1, fsb + .1, 9x400
winxp sp3, running avg basic and zonealarm, wireless nic, everything else is in sig. i'm running the gpu at stock until i get this all figured out.

Sorry for the saga, but i figure the more info I give to go on, the more likely it'll get figured out. Please help me get this figured out so I can game n fold thanks y'all!