GA-P35-DS3L OC Time!

[1Tanker]

Originally Posted by BALISTX

With that board it should give you mem multiies of 2/2.5/3/3.5/4/4.5

You just want to figure out what you want to set your FSB to and your CPU multi to have thing as close to where you want it. Break out the calculator.

I have the rev 2.0 w/F7 BIOS(E6600..but E8400 soon). The RAM multies on mine are 2/2.4/2.5/3/3.2/4 . You don't need a calculator to figure out the RAM speed(or CPU speed).. it shows you the real-time RAM/CPU speed as you adjust the FSB or multi.(nice feature)

[BALISTX]

Thanks for the mem multi. I know the board shows you realtime what your mem is running. I'm just figuring out for myself before I get the board LOL.

[Prof. Dr. Silver]

w0000t! Here's an update...the wife's doing a little better...so I had some benching time! This is the highest settings I got it sofar....but it is soooo not stable.....in fact wPrime is the only app that runs at these speeds!

Any comments?

[1Tanker]

Yeah first of all, nice FSB OC on the DS3L. You should be running your RAM @ higher voltage(than 2.05v).. i run mine @ 2.2v(which it's rated for)...that might help some with stability. In order for me to hit 400FSB on my DS3L(E6600-403x9-XP-120), i had to set vMCH +.3, vFSB +.2, and vPCIe +.2, PCIe@101MHz... as well as vDIMM +.4(Corsair 6400C4...my Ballistix 8500 wouldn't even let me hit over 390@ 2.2v also). I don't know if you've played with those settings, but it might be worth a try if you haven't. GL

[3.0charlie]

It may be unstable, but 488 FSB is the highest I've seen. I've done 450 personally, but far from stable. Good job.

[3.0charlie]

Originally Posted by 1Tanker

Yeah first of all, nice FSB OC on the DS3L. You should be running your RAM @ higher voltage(than 2.05v).. i run mine @ 2.2v(which it's rated for)...that might help some with stability. In order for me to hit 400FSB on my DS3L(E6600-403x9-XP-120), i had to set vMCH +.3, vFSB +.2, and vPCIe +.2, PCIe@101MHz... as well as vDIMM +.4(Corsair 6400C4...my Ballistix 8500 wouldn't even let me hit over 390@ 2.2v also). I don't know if you've played with those settings, but it might be worth a try if you haven't. GL

We do learn something new every day. Mr. 1Tanker, I have to Thank you. New personal record for my DS3L.



And it ain't over.

[BALISTX]

John, nice. Do you think you can 500 FSB out of the board?

[3.0charlie]

Originally Posted by BALISTX

John, nice. Do you think you can 500 FSB out of the board?

I've tried the quick and dirty too... but no luck. It POSTed at 499, but Windows did not cooperate... more testing tomorrow night. I'm thinking FSB hole. I'm close to the max of the Ram though - it can be pushed to 515 max.

[BALISTX]

How much vcore did you give the CPU. If you set the mem multi to 2.0 that mem should be fine.

[Prof. Dr. Silver]

Originally Posted by 1Tanker

Yeah first of all, nice FSB OC on the DS3L. You should be running your RAM @ higher voltage(than 2.05v).. i run mine @ 2.2v(which it's rated for)...that might help some with stability. In order for me to hit 400FSB on my DS3L(E6600-403x9-XP-120), i had to set vMCH +.3, vFSB +.2, and vPCIe +.2, PCIe@101MHz... as well as vDIMM +.4(Corsair 6400C4...my Ballistix 8500 wouldn't even let me hit over 390@ 2.2v also). I don't know if you've played with those settings, but it might be worth a try if you haven't. GL

LOL, thanks ppl,

Please don't mind the sig, those are old settings.....the specs in BIOS for achieving this are:
vCore: 1.47V ~ 1.43 for real (1.44 in CPU-Z)
vDIMM: 2.30V ~ 2.09 for real (or +0.5V) managed 585MHz @ 5-4-5-12 and 570MHz @ 5-4-4-8
vMCH: auto
vFSB: +0.1
vPCIe: auto

So maybe if I 'up' it a bit....I could go higher....!

Oh this is for everyone to know.....

WARNING: If you mess around with a multimeter....MAKE SURE YOU HAVE A STEADY HAND!!! I shorted my system 4 times while measuring vCore and vDIMM!!!
Luckily nothing got damaged! However....when I placed a fan on the NB I didn't realize that it still had screws in it....When I bumped into my desk....(was taking pics) the fan moved against my 8800GTS....guess what happened???