Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L Thread

[Coelocanth]

Originally Posted by tekster

question since im not great at this overclocking business,

the highest i can get is 3.33ghz without getting an error in prime95. i dont know much about voltages and whatnot and not sure if it needs to fiddled with, so if you can be so kind as to assist me :> thanks

Have you bumped your voltage up yet or still running stock? If you're still on stock voltage, try going into the BIOS and bumping it up one notch.

[losttsol]

Originally Posted by rudefyet

New to this site, but I've had my DS3L for a week or 2 now and have been playing around.

I'm determined to get 3.6GHz out of my Q6600, but I'm running into some issues.

I've got 2 options with my memory at that speed, 1000MHz or 1200MHz, since there's no multiplier inbetween (tried lowering the cpu multiplier and increasing the FSB to no avail, doesn't even post)

And well, I'm being picky trying to squeeze as much as I can out of it, and since I spent 12 hours or so trying to get it to run at 3.8, I'm getting a little irritated with this board.

I can run the ram at 1000mhz with stock timings perfectly stable, but where's the fun in that?

So using geekbench as a benchmark i'm trying to break 8000 points, and there's 2 ways I can do that. 1000mhz at 4-4-4-12 or 1200mhz at 5-5-5-15, both will boot into the OS, and the benchmarks with run fine on 3 cores, but as soon as I kick in the 4th core for a minute or two things start crashing.

Now I still have a few unexplored options at 3.6GHz, I have not touched the FSB or Chipset voltage, they're both still at normal, and I've read more then one review show my Ballistix are stable at 2.2v and 600MHz.

I've tried upping the dram voltage to 2.45v even, but I'm wary of keeping it there, and it didn't seem to make a difference.

So I'm going to play around with every FSB, Chipset voltage combo I can think of, but if anyone has any more suggestions, let me know

Your RAM @ 2.45v is very high.

I can get mine to run fine @ stock RAM volts, 400 x 9 @ 3.6GHz @ 1.45v in the BIOS. Do you have the GO revision of the Q6600? If you have the B3 version then you might have some problems getting to 3.6GHz with your specs. Have you looked @ your temps?

[tekster]

Originally Posted by Coelocanth

Have you bumped your voltage up yet or still running stock? If you're still on stock voltage, try going into the BIOS and bumping it up one notch.

i havent touched the voltages since i dont know what to do with them, which setting would i edit? thanks

[Coelocanth]

Originally Posted by tekster

i havent touched the voltages since i dont know what to do with them, which setting would i edit? thanks

In the BIOS, go into Motherboard Intelligent Tweaker (M.I.T.) and navigate down to System Voltage Control. Set it to Manual. A red warning will start flashing (system not optimized) after you tweak (or possibly right away - I can't recall when it starts). Don't let it freak you out - it's just flashing because the BIOS thinks it can set better voltages than we can (to use Sarge's words). Ignore the warning and let it flash.

Once you've got it set to Manual, go down to CPU Voltage Control and click on it. Take note of what it's set on and just go up to the next higher value. Exit, save, and you're good to go. Go back in and set it a notch higher if you have to. Watch your voltages though. Make sure you know what's safe for your chip and watch your temps. Temperature increases exponentially with voltage increase, so don't overdo it.

Don't worry though, it's only scary the first time!

(While you're in there, be certain you've manually set your PCI Express Frequency to 100 MHz. If it's on Auto, change to Manual and set it at 100.)

[rudefyet]

Originally Posted by losttsol

Your RAM @ 2.45v is very high.

I can get mine to run fine @ stock RAM volts, 400 x 9 @ 3.6GHz @ 1.45v in the BIOS. Do you have the GO revision of the Q6600? If you have the B3 version then you might have some problems getting to 3.6GHz with your specs. Have you looked @ your temps?

Well, I didn't keep it at 2.45, I was just saying I tried up to that. And it's a G0

Final results I got that are stable 3.6GHz 400x9, Ram at 1000MHz 4-4-4-12 2.1v, and vcore at 1.41v (set to 1.475). Running Super Pi x4 I only got 61-62C core temps.

Now to find some good speeds for my HD3870

[tekster]

Originally Posted by Coelocanth

In the BIOS, go into Motherboard Intelligent Tweaker (M.I.T.) and navigate down to System Voltage Control. Set it to Manual. A red warning will start flashing (system not optimized) after you tweak (or possibly right away - I can't recall when it starts). Don't let it freak you out - it's just flashing because the BIOS thinks it can set better voltages than we can (to use Sarge's words). Ignore the warning and let it flash.

Once you've got it set to Manual, go down to CPU Voltage Control and click on it. Take note of what it's set on and just go up to the next higher value. Exit, save, and you're good to go. Go back in and set it a notch higher if you have to. Watch your voltages though. Make sure you know what's safe for your chip and watch your temps. Temperature increases exponentially with voltage increase, so don't overdo it.

Don't worry though, it's only scary the first time!

(While you're in there, be certain you've manually set your PCI Express Frequency to 100 MHz. If it's on Auto, change to Manual and set it at 100.)

ok awesome thank you, i believe its set to 'normal' for the cpu voltage and normal i think is something like 1.325 or something, but when i set the voltage control to manual my core voltage in cpu-z is now around 1.296, in everest my core voltage is 1.325 so i dunno which to go by. thanks again

[Coelocanth]

Originally Posted by tekster

ok awesome thank you, i believe its set to 'normal' for the cpu voltage and normal i think is something like 1.325 or something, but when i set the voltage control to manual my core voltage in cpu-z is now around 1.296, in everest my core voltage is 1.325 so i dunno which to go by. thanks again

Everything I've read indicates the CPU-z voltage value is what your chip is actually getting. I'm inclined to agree, as my BIOS is reporting my voltage as 1.4625, but CPU-z says it's 1.376 (and it drops to 1.344 under load) and my load temps are only 47 C.

Are you using the latest edition of Everest? I was just thinking about buying it.

[tekster]

im using everest ultimate (4.00.976), a buddy of mine gave me a product key for it.

so what does it mean if the chip is only getting 1.296 when normal is 1.325?

[Coelocanth]

Originally Posted by tekster

im using everest ultimate (4.00.976), a buddy of mine gave me a product key for it.

so what does it mean if the chip is only getting 1.296 when normal is 1.325?

It means you're laughing. You've got lots of headroom to raise your voltage, since what you're getting for speed now is coming at a low voltage cost.

if/when you change your voltage, I'd be interested to see what Everest and CPU-z report afterward.

[tekster]

ok well since i was getting an error in p95 i turned it down so im only at 3.15ghz at the moment, i uped the voltage to 1.350 and now cpu-z says its 1.28 and no errors in p95 so far (about an hour and a half) so im working my way back up to 3.4 (which is where i want to be)