Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L Thread

[jcharlesr75]

I just got a Q9450 and im not having as easy of a time ocing it as i did with my E6550. Im stuck at 3.2 Ghz and i still havent tested that. I think that my bootable voltage is at 1.35(1.312 idle w/droop) and i think that its to high. My fsb and mch voltages are at +.2v and i have to add +.6v to my vdimm to keep it at 2.16v at idle. What am i doing wrong?

[jcharlesr75]

I have since realized that the incredible vdroop under load only gets worse with a quad. I have tried the pencil mod and i havent gotten very good results. I thin that im not using a good enough pencil. Though i did manage to get the resistor down from 1955 ohms to 1450 ohms. Im gonna try to get a better pencil and try again when i get back to my computer.

[BradleyW]

this board set on fire when i had it. Temps were ok and the pc was not overclocked/volted

[SgtSpike]

Good luck with the voltmod. I hear the revision 2.0 boards are even worse than the revision 1.0 boards as far as that goes...

If anything though, just set the voltage higher to achieve the actual voltage you want. So set it to 1.4v if you want 1.35v.

[jcharlesr75]

Well im getting nowhere with the pencil mod so im buying a EP45-UD3L. Im going to make a linux folding rig out of the DS3L. I tried that, with the voltage i mean, but i really dont want to cook my new quad just yet . It is set to 1.4v in the bios and reads 1.360 at idle in cpu-z. When i load it though is when it gets really neat. It will drop to 1.312. Its only clocked to 3.2! The board itself just isnt handling the voltage for some reason.

[woodn]

Hi guys,

I have read 100+ pages of the thread so far. I've just ordered the parts for my new PC and am looking forward to engaging in some OCing over the weekend! I have overclocked a couple of systems previously.

The new PC will include:

E8400 w/ Akasa AK-965 HSF
P35-DS3R
2x2gb Corsair XMS2 DDR2-800 CL5 1.9v
Gigabyte Radeon 4850 w/ Zalman 2-slot HSF

Also a 600w Winpower PSU and an Asus case with 2x80mm Akasa case fans.

Three questions:

1. How should I approach the overclocking after a day's burn-in? Do you think Im reasonably safe going straight to 3.6ghz and then taking smaller steps from there?

2. Should I just up my vcore to, say, 1.3v and increase my mem voltage and see what I can hit, or incrementally increase my voltages as I increase my FSB?

3. I want to hit (and perhaps pass) 4ghz. Any expectations of what is likely with this setup?

Thanks! Will keep you posted when my system is up and running.

NW

[JLT_GTI]

Yes if the performance in bios (the turbo and standard thing) is at the same level.. if my bios works ok i prefeer not to update it..

[country_3030]

I know you should use the bios to overclock. However, I can not get the computer to boot after overclocking in the bios. It seems that I can get to 3.6ghz in windows with easy tune 5 but can't get over 3.2ghz in the bios. I am locking the pci at 100mhz, have tried playing with voltages and nothing seems to work.

Pentium 4 540J 3.2g 800mhz
Gigabyte GA-p35-ds3l
2 x Corsair DDR2 XMS2 800mhz

This is in windows and is stable according to Intel Burn Test. However, I can't even get close to this oc in the bios or the computer wont boot past the bios screen.

[JLT_GTI]

Originally Posted by country_3030

I know you should use the bios to overclock. However, I can not get the computer to boot after overclocking in the bios. It seems that I can get to 3.6ghz in windows with easy tune 5 but can't get over 3.2ghz in the bios. I am locking the pci at 100mhz, have tried playing with voltages and nothing seems to work.

Pentium 4 540J 3.2g 800mhz
Gigabyte GA-p35-ds3l
2 x Corsair DDR2 XMS2 800mhz

This is in windows and is stable according to Intel Burn Test. However, I can't even get close to this oc in the bios or the computer wont boot past the bios screen.

Have you boosted the vcore to 1.8? I have it at 1.8 to get 3,33 tought in cpuz it shows 1,44

[country_3030]

Thanks, I will try that as soon as I get windows back up.

It seems while downloading some torrents last night I caught a nasty virus. Now I have the horrible windows login loop. I am in the process of fixing that and will update my result later.