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

[nop]

I managed to oc e6600 with ds3 @ 450*8

very nice. Could you please tell me what max FSB with 9 multi you can prime?

[Akaikami]

How much can I OC a E6400 with stock HSF

[Brahmzy]

Any retail E6600 owners out there try the new F4e? I could care less about you lucky ES folk.

[Chri$ch]

Bios work fine, but i cant boot over 460FSB (with none bios!)

i try 4 CPUs (E6300, E6400, E6600 & X6800) & 2 mainboards!

Now i order the second 2GBHZ Kit

[dinos22]

Stock MCH, FSB voltage. No extra northbridge cooling. Big Typhoon for CPU (not that it matters for FSB testing at 6x multplier).

There is a lot of variation between the different board temp sensors, so don't expect any real accuracy (my 1st and 2nd DS3 has 15c temp difference on the same CPU/Cooler). The stock cooler isn't much good, noisy and around 10c hotter than Big Typhoon. I'd say for stock cooler, I wouldn't up the vcore from default at all. For something like Big Typhoon, maybe up to .125v etra should be okay for daily usage.

wtf is that my old mobo ROFL

[Dase]

Any retail E6600 owners out there try the new F4e? I could care less about you lucky ES folk.

I just flashed F4E on my DS3. No difference in overclocking ability for me. Here are my details:

E6600 week 24 on a DS3. 366 FSB (3.3 GHz), dual prime stable. Ninja+ air cooling, 58C tempwhile priming (coretemp reports 68C). 1.4875 cpu volts in bios, all other bios settings set to auto. Couldn't make 375 fsb stable. After 2 hours of messing with bios settings, the only setting that seemed to help me OC is cpu voltage and I'm not willing to go over 1.5.

I suppose I'm a bit disappointed to top out at 366 FSB, but I want a stable overclock, and going from 2.4 GHz stock to 3.3 GHz isn't too shabby. I think the retail B2 steppings on average will OC noticeably lower than the B1 cherrypicked samples that got everyone excited.

[cliffy]

My overclock has gone down know, it is early though so maybe i just missing something

[dualshock]

kenofstephen, any new beta BIOS for ds4? the f3d that you posted earlier work on ds4 but it changes my model number to dq6. it did, as you mentioned, solve the compatibility problem for geforce 7 series card (i can use dvi already) but i was wondering is there anymore latest beta BIOS for ds4? thanks

[logigamer]

This morning I got "another" F4e BIOS, which they said is "the same as" what I've received yesterday, of course I don't believe it though...


Once again, please use it at your own risks, the above picture showing the successful screen after updating.

http://rapidshare.de/files/28960251/965pds3.f4e.html

they said "After updating to F4e on 965P-DS3, there is no problem at all.
Please see the attached picture."

so, in link is tasted, orginal f4e bios, true?

[kenofstephen]

so, in link is tasted, orginal f4e bios, true?

yes, did you see many guys tried already on the above replies?

[logigamer]

yes, did you see many guys tried already on the above replies?

thanks!

i saw they replays but i asked for sure

[kenofstephen]

thanks!

i saw they replays but i asked for sure

don't worry about this one

[soki]

What about a correct f3d bios for the ds4? Lets hope the new bios will fix the CAS 5(3) bug.

[Steve B]

and the compatibility issue with 7 series nvidia cards, this ones doin me box in!

[Lestat]

and what issues is that steve ?
i have a 7800 GTX and this board has zero issues for me.
infact i have been able to overclock the card further with this baord than i have with any other

[Steve B]

ive got a leadtek 7800GTX on a DS4 with F3 Bios.
Just resets itself every time i change anything, this is with 2.1V on Vdimm and Team Xtreem 6400 kit

[Kampfflummi]

The F4e actually stopped my DS3 from running at CL3!

I can now use FSB400 with 1:1 Memory, which is enough for now.

Inaccepteable however is that I still have to reset the bios each time I restat my computer if I ovverclocked, no matter how stable it is. I hope the final F4 will change that.

[Rare1]

The F4e actually stopped my DS3 from running at CL3!

I can now use FSB400 with 1:1 Memory, which is enough for now.

Inaccepteable however is that I still have to reset the bios each time I restat my computer if I ovverclocked, no matter how stable it is. I hope the final F4 will change that.

That is good news!!

[dualshock]

soki, i'm now using the f3d BIOS which are meant for dq6 and it's working great.

steve b, where did you get your F3 BIOS anyway?

[Shonky]

Well after alot of playing round with the new DS3 beta F3E bios I have just about run out of patience, while it does overclock for me now I got a FSB wall at about 370mhz and no amount of bios tweaking will get me past it.

Off to a friends place tomorrow to try my E6400, mem and video in an Asus P5B Deluxe, if things go well this DS3 may very well end up on Ebay, thanks to Gigabyte for the worst new motherboard experience I've had in the last 10+ years of building PCs.

[kenofstephen]

Well after alot of playing round with the new DS3 beta F3E bios I have just about run out of patience, while it does overclock for me now I got a FSB wall at about 370mhz and no amount of bios tweaking will get me past it.

Off to a friends place tomorrow to try my E6400, mem and video in an Asus P5B Deluxe, if things go well this DS3 may very well end up on Ebay, thanks to Gigabyte for the worst new motherboard experience I've had in the last 10+ years of building PCs.

try the same CPU on another board to see which causes the "wall", possibly it's your CPU instead of the board, coz there are so many 5xx FSB cases overhere....if YES, I'd recommend you to sell your CPU and go for the next one instead dude.

[ste]

Thank you so much kenofstephen. Cas latency problem on the 1:1 ratio has now been solved for me. Thanks again.

[Steve B]

soki, i'm now using the f3d BIOS which are meant for dq6 and it's working great.

steve b, where did you get your F3 BIOS anyway?

from post #7 haltechs mirror site

[soki]

soki, i'm now using the f3d BIOS which are meant for dq6 and it's working great.

steve b, where did you get your F3 BIOS anyway?

I dont want my mobo to become dq6 from ds4 to solve the cas problem! I flash only with qflash and f3d gives me error. I want a bios for ds4.

[logigamer]

hmm, i think for me for OC its a little bit worse ... now i cant have stable 495 .. im testing ...