Yo gsan, have you sold your DS3? If it's revision 2.1 (And not yet sold ), there's a hidden feature yet to be unlocked!

I said feature, not trick But anyway, some may find this useful but some just don't care...

Heard of ASUS EPU? Heard of ASUS AI Suite? Always wanted to know how much watt that overclocked proc of yours is eating? I always wanted to know my proc's power consumption, and now I can! Thanks to GIGABYTE DES, just update the BIOS and this hidden feature is unlocked

http://www.giga-byte.com/FileList/WebPage/...es-overview.htm

Erm... No.

Seems like GIGABYTE made some changes on the hardware components of revision 2.1, so only that revision or newer supports the feature and software. They stated it somewhere in their site, forgotten liao But I do know that the last model to support DES is P35-DS3 rev. 2.1, lower end models like the DS3L, S3L, etc. won't have it. And the naming will add an E in front, becoming EP35-DS3 for future boards produced, which could be the reason why DS3 was facing shortage when I want to buy last month

Taken from their site:


This post has been edited by Dreamworks: Jan 11 2008, 12:30 AM

Don't feel bad, DES is rather useless for OCers as the program will not work if the FSB is not on default They should at least let use monitor how many watts

And it's also useless for E2140 users, because our procs only consume 25 watts on load If I switched on DES, idle is only 3 watts

This post has been edited by Dreamworks: Jan 11 2008, 09:38 AM