Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L Thread

[Pasta]

Originally Posted by homestyle

If I reflash, do I need to do a reinstall of Vista?

lol absolutely not

[xGeNeSisx]

Hey everyone, I am having a bit of trouble with overclocking my P35-DS3L with a Q6600 G0 revision. My problem involves raising the FSB, I cannot get past 333. I am currently on 1.3v voltage for cpu and multiplier of 9. I have tried troubleshooting this in every way possible, I have tested ram timings, voltage, and different ram itself with no luck. Adding voltage to northbridge/fsb did not help. I have read that there are some problems with 1066 ram (currently running 4gb G.Skill) so I have tried running it at 800 with no luck.

C.I.A.2 is disabled
PCI-E speed is 100mhz
Memory timing is on Standard
Ram timings: 5-5-5-15
overvolting +0.3 for ram

I have tried basically anything, can anyone make some suggestions on how I can achieve higher clock speeds? Thanks.

[Pasta]

Originally Posted by xGeNeSisx

Hey everyone, I am having a bit of trouble with overclocking my P35-DS3L with a Q6600 G0 revision. My problem involves raising the FSB, I cannot get past 333. I am currently on 1.3v voltage for cpu and multiplier of 9. I have tried troubleshooting this in every way possible, I have tested ram timings, voltage, and different ram itself with no luck. Adding voltage to northbridge/fsb did not help. I have read that there are some problems with 1066 ram (currently running 4gb G.Skill) so I have tried running it at 800 with no luck.

C.I.A.2 is disabled
PCI-E speed is 100mhz
Memory timing is on Standard
Ram timings: 5-5-5-15
overvolting +0.3 for ram

I have tried basically anything, can anyone make some suggestions on how I can achieve higher clock speeds? Thanks.

you're not overclocking in windows, are you? try removing the cmos battery.

[xGeNeSisx]

I am overclocking using the bios, using F9b bios. (I have tried previous versions) I have tried resetting the cmos with no luck in overclocking more. Any other ideas ?

[homestyle]

Besides the Northbridge, what other components get hot when you push the FSB on this board?

How about the mosfets? I'm thinking of going for 500 FSB, but I don't know if the mosfets gets hot? The chips to the left of the cpu socket near the I/O shield.

[xGeNeSisx]

I have an idea, after reading up a bit I found some boards cannot overclock past a certain point unless the PCI-E frequency is raised a bit. I will try to raise it in very small increments without exceeding 115mhz. If this doesn't work I honestly don't know what the problem could be, but I can live with 3 ghz.

[Pasta]

Originally Posted by xGeNeSisx

I have an idea, after reading up a bit I found some boards cannot overclock past a certain point unless the PCI-E frequency is raised a bit. I will try to raise it in very small increments without exceeding 115mhz. If this doesn't work I honestly don't know what the problem could be, but I can live with 3 ghz.

i think it could be your trd value. to figure if that's the issue, do this:

1. set your fsb to 375 and your memory to 900 (2.4 divider). set your cpu speed to 3.0GHz, if that's what has worked for you.

2. lower your CL (first ram timing) from 5 to 4 (you must lower the CL to 4 for this to work).

3. now set your trd (tRead in advanced memory timings) to 5, with "performance enhance" set to standard.

try to boot. if you can't, use the same settings as before, but increase trd to 6. if you still can't boot, increase to 7. still not booting, stay at 7 and increase the G(MCH) and FSB voltages to +.2 each.

if you still cannot boot, then trd is not the issue and.. sorry man, i tried

[xGeNeSisx]

Originally Posted by Pasta

i think it could be your trd value. to figure if that's the issue, do this:

1. set your fsb to 375 and your memory to 900 (2.4 divider). set your cpu speed to 3.0GHz, if that's what has worked for you.

2. lower your CL (first ram timing) from 5 to 4 (you must lower the CL to 4 for this to work).

3. now set your trd (tRead in advanced memory timings) to 5, with "performance enhance" set to standard.

try to boot. if you can't, use the same settings as before, but increase trd to 6. if you still can't boot, increase to 7. still not booting, stay at 7 and increase the G(MCH) and FSB voltages to +.2 each.

if you still cannot boot, then trd is not the issue and.. sorry man, i tried

I could not boot with those settings but this renews my interest in ram timings and my ability to overclock. With a multiplier of 8x, fsb on 375mhz, and ram timings on auto, I can run a stability test for over 30 seconds with an fsb higher than 333. I have found some settings for this board which should help get me stable at 1066, then I will see if I can overclock my processor more. Running prime 95 right now...

[pjj1180]

So I see a lot of people with 4 gigs pc8500. Is everybody able to run it at 1066 with 4 gigs? I can only get 1000 with all 4 in. With less I can run 1066. What is the trick. Bump the MCH or what?

[xGeNeSisx]

Are they all of the same brand ? That could be the problem. Try adjusting your ram timings and see if that helps. Do you get errors at 1066 or did you not change the memory multiplier to get there ? Make sure to overvolt the ram volts to what your memory requires. (2.1v, 2.2v, etc.)