Another question, is it possible to run my ram at 1t, i couldnt find anywhere to set it to 1t, saw your signature using the same mobo.

nope not all mobo has the option of adjust the CommandRate 1T/2T. it doesnt bring any significant differences, i doubt it actually 'works' at all

Core temp is 49C idle. Only at 100% load it reaches 71C. So I'm wondering whether it is ok. Idle should be ok, just when load?

Yup, as kucingfight has already mentioned, some reviews showed that there is no speed advantage between 1T and 2T. This only applies to DDR2 though.....

For the P35-DS3, you can't set it to 1T.....



Load temp is a bit high. Not considered that safe.... either throttle down your OC or get a good 3rd party cooler.....

Any particular cooler that you recommend. I was hopin' for it to be cheap coz I ain't got much money here.

xigmatek s963, i replaced my ac freezer 7 pro wit this & it performs much better.. dirt cheap too. rmm119 i think.. bought frm ckhoong in bul section.

Yeah, was thinkin' bout that cooler too. But the problem is, I read reviews bout it and it doesn't seem to have a major drop on the temperature. Minimal 2-3C only.

Currently, the best air-cooler in terms of price:performance is the Xigmatek S1283....

hello.. guys.. have one more question, i have found a 2nd hand board gigaybte p35-ds3 REV 1.0, now im having gigabyte 965p-ds3 rev 3.3 , members here ask me to trade to at least p35 board to fully utilize my Q6600 quad core, so my question is p35-ds3 rev1.0 is better than my 965p ?? for my quadcore, remark: this p35-ds3 is rev 1.0 not 2.0 , so should i keep or trade it?

What about Thermaltake MaxOrb and Big Typhoon? Any opinion?

yes the p35 rev1.0 is better than ur p965 v3.3

what is the difference between P35 DS3 rev1.0 and rev2.0?

p/s: going to join this thread soon.

ty boss..! i can go ahead and trade then

Dunno. Even in Gigabyte's website, they never really state the difference....

So, finally, you have decided to upgrade!

hehe, for my dad one, he need a powerful multitasking setup

Intel C2D E6550 + GA-P35-DS3 + Crucial PC5300 D9GMH 2x1GB

Cool! Why not get the E6750? Less than a hundred ringgit difference only ma.... Better OC also....

lol... E6750 + P35-DS3 already over 1k, out of budget

btw, this pc must be running stable 24/7, so I dont expect for extreme oc, maybe 3GHz is enough. and the problem now is, I need to find the LGA775 RM for my XP90C.

change ur with ur dad then ma ok~ lolz

lol... I've taken off the IHF of my X2, the xp90c cannot make contact directly with the bare core, need to modify.

i'm using q6600 with p35-ds4 rev1.1...
i want to know why my multiplier keep changing form 6 to 9..
9 to 6 back.. and so on.. btw.. i set my multiplier to 9.. went i set the multiplier to 8.. it keep changing form 6 to 8.. on so on.. any setting that i miss to make the multiplier stay.. ??

edit:
find the solution already..
thank..

welcome to d darkside bro...

uncle's rig so powerful ah? does he need so much processin power?

Hm if multitasking should add at least one more GB ram is cheap now

2 GB should be enuff. If wanna get 4GB, try 64 bit OS as 32 bit only detect up too 3.5GB.

help i cannot overclock at all!!! this really sucks!!
1) i changed fsb from 200 to 220
2) voltage from 1.325 to 1.33
3) ram ratio from 3.33 to 2.66(so that it runs at 250x2.66=665)
4) disable all those safety stuffs like eist, blah2..
and cannot boot at all!! turn power off and then on pc, just blank screen..try more than 10 times only can boot, at that time the OC disables already..
rig is as my sig
with the combination of both cpu and motherboard, both are proven good overclockers!!
FYI before this ive put my score on 3dmark01 benchmark list with 2.75ghz d, prime etc etc all pass

bro, our board don't really like 2.66 multi, try 2.5 u'll see it fly...

btw, u ain't need to bump d voltage, i believe no matter how bad ya chip is, it's still capable to do 10% oc without d need of extra juice...

After reading around, I came to a conclusion whereby it's always best to run 1:1 with the lowest CAS latency as possible.

i think it's not so suitable for our case bro, since our chips (e21x0) have fsb wall @ around 400 +/-, it's better for us to push the ram more...

pls correct me if i'm wrong...

The rationale is that we should get the RAM running at lowest CAS latency as possible. As such it's better to get 400Mhz 1:1 14-4-4-4 than 470Mhz 5:6 15-5-5-5

I'm not sure how true this is

Actually you can do close to 80% without touching the VCore at all

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Added on November 24, 2007, 9:50 pm

you can get 4-4-4-12 actually instead of 14.

I suppose that can be done but I've never tried

bro, i believe not all chip are capable of that.

lol... what bios do u use ahkhoo??
i can only use 2.0,2.33,2.66...no 2.5 there.....
if it cant boot what else could be the prob? could the bios be it?..

Why not try it ?

am on f12 bios bro... i took me one day to realize that our board dun really like multi 2.66 n above. my ram is of d9dcl, d lousiest chippies from micron.

ya ram is on what chippies?

M0-stepping 2140 should be capable of that or somewhere near that ? goldfries can do I, I can do it... if you look at the E2140 OC page you'll see that lots of people can do it. I can do 80% on cheap RAM (KVRs and Patriots), cheap board (DS3L) and cheap HSF (CM Silence.) It's not like that's a rare thing.

I'll do it soon as I'm currently trying 405 x 8 with my lapped CPU and stock cooler

hmm, a noob question here,
i just change to p35-ds3 last week,
the reason i change the board coz my previous mobo malfunctioned due to pci-e bus problem,

hmm, real noob question here,
how can check the voltage of the current setting?
i mean when i wana oc,
like the ram voltage,
u can set +0.1v, +0.2v, +0.3v and etc,
but why cant i see the current voltage for the ram?
and also the other voltage as well,
I just can see the cpu vcore only...

the bios is different with my biostar previously,
so, kinda feel cant adapt with current bios and it's tweaking style...

the latest bios would display real voltages instead of OK in the PC health page in bios. try it

ram default is 1.8v.. so +0.1 would be 1.9v

Does the latest BIOS provides better overclockability or the same?

mine is already update to f9 bios wor...

me on F12 now... before this on F10.. no improvements.......
how to check chipset?
aisey....damn frustrated la
anybody can come to my house and help me overclock ? i will you.... or ill come to your house oso can

Why dont u try to latest bios F10, just out few days only, i am using now but a bit fussy on the ram side

to try to find d max frequency of ya ram (u can find the max fsb as well by this):

- lower cpu multi
- set ram multi to 2.00
- raise ya fsb gradually, test it with memtest for stability, if there's any error, increase ram voltage (try to make it below 2.2v for long test)

after find out the max frequency of ya ram, then only proceed to find d max frequency of ya chip.

if the ram didnt hit 667 yet shud increase oso voltage?

no, most of the time u ain't need extra voltage at rated speed...

Woohoo really going for economy eh ?

wodenus, I wanted to get some used coolers but not many good ones are available. Maybe you should sell me yours for a good price

Well I won't need it after I get the phase-change, so maybe

Btw, my BIOS is F5 currently so any good to update with the latest one? If there are no speed or overclocking improvements, I might as well stay as it is.

Won't hurt I think, if it sucks you can always revert. The best thing about the new BIOS is that you get to see the voltages. Also it seems to be a bit more stable at higher FSBs, but the higher FSBs are a bit harder to reach. That's been my experience anyway.