Forward: official GIGA 965P-S3/DS3/DS4/DQ6 beta BIOS

[ericminou]

All of those people who ponied up for a $250+ motherboard, probably ponied up for watercooling (check chart), 600W-1000W PSU's (not on chart), top notch ram (check chart), have great case cooling / NB cooling (not on chart!), etc.. There's more to the #'s than that limited information on the chart.

My experience leads me to believe those people at the top with the top end motherboard, probably took some extraoridinary means to get there. Like trying several CPU's. I know at least one of those people tried 3 different e6600's before he got one that did over 3.6Ghz! SO maybe all is not what it seems with "THE Chart".

I agree... but I dont think the cooling is an issue yet!! I was planning on going to water once the temp was the road block. I have a GREAT 600W power supply, good memory and I am on my 4th CPU

Oh yeah, and for me less has been more on the MCH & FSB voltages. With +.1v for both, I can reach 473Mhz FSB with F7 BIOS. Try backing down that +.3v!

My memory is actually rated at 2.2v that's why the +0.4v. I leave the FSB voltage at Normal. I tried to take down the MCH, but without any luck. I mean even 402x9 fails with 1.50vcore while 400x9 runs 24hours with a 1.393vcore??
Finally, I even ran Orthos 7x475 for 4 hours (stopped it)....

OR MAYBE you're right. And maybe its just something like the power circuitry on the DS3 is only good up until about 3.6Ghz max. Compared to the power circuitry on the Asus board that costs nearly twice as much, is a little bit better and can handle some more Mhz.

I would be very curious to hear that and I would be ok with that answer. It is a rather cheap board, but then I hope the Q6 can handle over 3.6ghz... I know I am going to buy a new board to play with this weekend...

[msgclb]

Every attempt by me to set any voltage in the BIOS has failed. I've tried all kinds of combinations. So far the best stable Orthos that I've got is 400FSB using Auto voltages. Evenidently the BIOS can select the proper voltages better than I can.

[ericminou]

what voltages have u tried so far? the earlier once (LxxxA) need a little more Vcore than the B version...

[markopoleo]

??? You are running both cores at 100% utilizations all the time?? huh??? MOST people leave there PC idle not at full utlizations idle meaning 0% (or near 0%) processor load.

Not anyone I know..that is such a waste to not use it.

You can run under load for a long time without any problems, I ran my old p4 underload for 4 years at almost 70c. Plan on doing same with this one. We run about 30+ computer in lab underload all the time, one is now a quadcore that will be running underload for next couple years.

[ericminou]

Not anyone I know..that is such a waste to not use it.

You can run under load for a long time without any problems, I ran my old p4 underload for 4 years at almost 70c. Plan on doing same with this one.

lol.... so what does it do to be busy 24/7??

[markopoleo]

Like most people here they run distributed programs on CPU all the time, like BOINC for instance. The computers at the lab run distributed program to do data crunching so we don't have to.

Why buy a high end CPU and have it sit idle until you use it when its made to run all the time.

[ericminou]

Like most people here they run distributed programs on CPU all the time, like BOINC for instance. The computers at the lab run distributed program to do data crunching so we don't have to.

Why buy a high end CPU and have it sit idle until you use it when its made to run all the time.

Who said anything about buying it??

[Eldonko]

The latest for DQ6 is still F7 final or is there an F8 beta floating around somewhere?

[aldamon]

Like most people here they run distributed programs on CPU all the time, like BOINC for instance. The computers at the lab run distributed program to do data crunching so we don't have to.

Why buy a high end CPU and have it sit idle until you use it when its made to run all the time.

Yeah, I'm going to start folding with both cores again once I get my Tunique Tower in there and figure out my new top speed.

[Richard Dower]

I'd say an F8b/c beta bios is floating around for the DQ6...somebody pony it up!

[bingo13]

I'd say an F8b/c beta bios is floating around for the DQ6...somebody pony it up!

PM me, not for the BIOS but maybe I can help you.

[eXceeded]

PM me, not for the BIOS but maybe I can help you.

do keep us informed bingo . I love the way that you're helping us like this

[msgclb]

I've finally was able to set the voltages manually.



The first values are using Auto and the second is my Manual settings.



The CPU-Z processor voltage shows 1.440v in the screenshot but that reading was 1.213v most of the time. Occasionally it would jump to 1.440v and of course it just happened to be 1.440v when I took the screenshot. You'll notice that this reading was 1.408v when I used Auto. Are any of these reading to be believed? I'll now see if I can up the FSB.

[vengance_01]

I am just wondering any news for us S3/DS3 guys. I am stuck at 430 and I know my 6300 can do more than 3GHZ Oh and btw thanks Bingo for the help updates ect....

[cool_dude]

There any sucess with the new bios on the DS4?

My wall is 490 wont budge above that, am wanting to go higher! Currently on F3B bios iirc. Last time i updated was like August when it came out.

thanks.

c_d

[chrisf6969]

I've finally was able to set the voltages manually.

The CPU-Z processor voltage shows 1.440v in the screenshot but that reading was 1.213v most of the time. Occasionally it would jump to 1.440v and of course it just happened to be 1.440v when I took the screenshot. You'll notice that this reading was 1.408v when I used Auto. Are any of these reading to be believed? I'll now see if I can up the FSB.

Once you get over about 1.45v, the voltage gets read incorrectly. It jumps down to like 1.2xxv which is obviously not right. When you were at Auto it was probably at 1.4125, which read as 1.408v in windows.

To get higher than 3.2Ghz you're might just need 1.5v+

Do you have SetFSB ? If not download it and use it to up the FSB while you're in windows. Sometimes you can reach higher than you can with a boot.

Also try booting at like 405Mhz (skipping a few Mhz to make sure the highest strap is set).

I am just wondering any news for us S3/DS3 guys. I am stuck at 430 and I know my 6300 can do more than 3GHZ Oh and btw thanks Bingo for the help updates ect....

Why do you know yours can do more than 3Ghz? My e6600 only does 3Ghz, there are a lot of chips out there that just max out at 2.9-3.1Ghz. There's a reason Intel set the X6800 @ 2.93Ghz.... (its what it needed to be sure of reliable yields).

I know its not the motherboard, ram, etc..
I've tested at
9x333, 8 x 375, 7x430 all = 3Ghz
I've run the ram at 4-4-4-12 @ 920Mhz, & 5-6-6-17 @ 1Ghz
tried up to 1.45v, the chip just dies around 3.04Ghz

[Shelnutt2]

I just upgraded to F8i bios for the DS3...but uhm, how do I change the timings of the ram? Its got it running 5-7-7-12, CPUz says. When I press crt+f2, I get extra voltage options and all but no timings like I did with F6.

Thanks guys.

[_Eduard_]

its crtl+f1

[OnLine]

I just upgraded to F8i bios for the DS3...but uhm, how do I change the timings of the ram? Its got it running 5-7-7-12, CPUz says. When I press crt+f2, I get extra voltage options and all but no timings like I did with F6.

Thanks guys.

Hm, You should press Ctrl + F1 in main BIOS window.

Ctrl + F2 will erase the BIOS. ( Kidding! )

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Take note!

Vdimm setting is partly broken in 965pds3.f8i beta BIOS.

Normal in BIOS = 1.8V with DMM
+0.1V in BIOS = 1.9V with DMM
+0.2V in BIOS = 2.0V with DMM
+0.3V in BIOS = 2.1V with DMM
+0.4V in BIOS = 2.1V with DMM <- measures exactly the same as above
+0.5V in BIOS = 2.2V with DMM
+0.6V in BIOS = 2.3V with DMM
+0.7V in BIOS = 2.4V with DMM


- at least on my S3 board. Can someone confirm this?

[Shelnutt2]

ctr + f1....boy I feel stupid.

Thanks guys!

and rofl at the erasing the bios!

[newls1]

Hm, You should press Ctrl + F1 in main BIOS window.

Ctrl + F2 will erase the BIOS. ( Kidding! )

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Take note!

Vdimm setting is partly broken in 965pds3.f8i beta BIOS.

Normal in BIOS = 1.8V with DMM
+0.1V in BIOS = 1.9V with DMM
+0.2V in BIOS = 2.0V with DMM
+0.3V in BIOS = 2.1V with DMM
+0.4V in BIOS = 2.1V with DMM <- measures exactly the same as above
+0.5V in BIOS = 2.2V with DMM
+0.6V in BIOS = 2.3V with DMM
+0.7V in BIOS = 2.4V with DMM


- at least on my S3 board. Can someone confirm this?

really? Whats going here?

[blurp]

F8i bios doesn't work well for me. At each restart, my comp would not post unless I turn PSU off for a couple of minutes then restart. This happened with or without OC. Back to F8a.

[ScythedBlade]

F8i > F8a, concluded ... and the F7 > F8a in overclocking, but the F8i > F7 in overclocking. This is with patriot memory, which is a D9 variant.

[msgclb]

I booted using the BIOS settings below. I then used SetFSB to increase my FSB with the following results:

420FSB Orthos Passed
424FSB Orthos Failed @ 17 min

[MadMikeSS]

Turns out that all this time my issues were processor related. For some reason my E6300 was hitting a wall at 450FSB. I switched to an E6400 and am now doing 490x7 1:1 with my RAM. It struck me a little odd that my cpu would hit a dead wall like, usually you get a point of gradual vcore increase until you hit the wall, but this was basically stock volts and then dead wall. I guess that's why I didn't figure it to be the processor. Anyway, looks like my 450fsb issues are resolved - still using F8i bios for DS3 on my S3.