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Completed DS3/e6600 build

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Nunkuruji

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I thought I'd go ahead and share this build experience.

Gigabyte 965-DS3
Intel e6600 C2D
Corsair 6400C4 2GB
EVGA NVidia 7600GT
Soundblaster X-FI ExtremeMusic
Scythe Ninja Rev B
Antec P180
Scythe Kama Bay
Yate Loon D12SL 120mm fans (all)
Vantec NXP-205-BK fan controller
WD Raptor 150
Lite-on 16x SATA DVDRW
Antec NeoHE 550
Logitech Z-5550
Windows XP SP1a (SP2 ruined some things on my previous system...)

The DS3 I originally received was a rev.1 and DOA. Shipped 1/22 from newegg
There was nothing I could do to get it to post or even return a beep code.
RMA returned for replacement.

The second DS3 I received was a rev.2 pre-flashed with F10 bios.

My current settings are
9x multiplier
333 FSB
@3.0ghz
All Stock Voltage
EIST, C1E enabled
Orthos/Load temps are 50/53 under Intel TAT
Speedfan Temp2 low 40s. (I'm assuming thats NB)


I have booted stable to Windows w/stock voltages @
8x400 and 9x366

However, it quickly failed Orthos.
I'm sure I just need some voltage tweaking to get it stable at those speeds.

I have not yet experienced cold boot issues with the rev.2/F10

I did experience the disappearing X-FI problem for the first time this morning.
X-FI is in the 2nd PCI slot.
I flipped the BIOS IRQ setting from Auto to a static value, rebooted.
Rebooted it again back to Auto and it showed up again.
I'm not sure what others have decided the culprit is, but I'm going to see if I can find a static unshared IRQ that works reliably.


Upgraded from an overclocked dual Athlon XP-M / Tyan s2460 setup, which was incredibly noisy and becoming unstable.
I'm pretty impressed with the whole YL/P180/Ninja performance as far as Heat/CFM/Noise.
X-FI puts out way better sound to my Z-5500 than my old GTXP. Definitely worth it.
People may complain about poor creative drivers, but I think they've come a long way since the sblive, which I had in my BP6 rig years ago.

The overclock can definitely be better, but I don't feel I need that extra juice until I've got a better graphics card.
 
Nunkuruji said:
I thought I'd go ahead and share this build experience.

Gigabyte 965-DS3
Intel e6600 C2D
Corsair 6400C4 2GB
EVGA NVidia 7600GT
Soundblaster X-FI ExtremeMusic
Scythe Ninja Rev B
Antec P180
Scythe Kama Bay
Yate Loon D12SL 120mm fans (all)
Vantec NXP-205-BK fan controller
WD Raptor 150
Lite-on 16x SATA DVDRW
Antec NeoHE 550
Logitech Z-5550
Windows XP SP1a (SP2 ruined some things on my previous system...)

The DS3 I originally received was a rev.1 and DOA. Shipped 1/22 from newegg
There was nothing I could do to get it to post or even return a beep code.
RMA returned for replacement.

The second DS3 I received was a rev.2 pre-flashed with F10 bios.

My current settings are
9x multiplier
333 FSB
@3.0ghz
All Stock Voltage
EIST, C1E enabled
Orthos/Load temps are 50/53 under Intel TAT
Speedfan Temp2 low 40s. (I'm assuming thats NB)


I have booted stable to Windows w/stock voltages @
8x400 and 9x366

However, it quickly failed Orthos.
I'm sure I just need some voltage tweaking to get it stable at those speeds.

I have not yet experienced cold boot issues with the rev.2/F10

I did experience the disappearing X-FI problem for the first time this morning.
X-FI is in the 2nd PCI slot.
I flipped the BIOS IRQ setting from Auto to a static value, rebooted.
Rebooted it again back to Auto and it showed up again.
I'm not sure what others have decided the culprit is, but I'm going to see if I can find a static unshared IRQ that works reliably.


Upgraded from an overclocked dual Athlon XP-M / Tyan s2460 setup, which was incredibly noisy and becoming unstable.
I'm pretty impressed with the whole YL/P180/Ninja performance as far as Heat/CFM/Noise.
X-FI puts out way better sound to my Z-5500 than my old GTXP. Definitely worth it.
People may complain about poor creative drivers, but I think they've come a long way since the sblive, which I had in my BP6 rig years ago.

The overclock can definitely be better, but I don't feel I need that extra juice until I've got a better graphics card.
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Sounds like a nice system. I too went for the 180 case and I love the thing, I just wish they had added wheels.

As for your sound card, well, Creative has always written code to work with IRQ’s that has been notably strange on way too many occasions. Although I have stopped buying their products I have fixed a number of machines by switching the PCI slot used to manual and selecting an unused IRQ.

Enjoy the new toy:)
 
I have the same X-Fi, CPU, MB, and Ram. I have a 2.0 DS3 as well, but I'm having crashing with mine. It's REALLY annoying. It's probably a RAM issue, but I'm not ruling out the board yet. I want to love this board but I'm a bit worried. I'm also having issues with the onboard LAN dropping DNS functionality at random. The other computers on the network are working fine DNS-wise. Not sure what to think right now.
 
I tinkered with the X-FI a bit last night

I found that some SMBus controller was IRQ sharing with the X-Fi. I don't recall the exact name.

The PCI/PnP option in the BIOS allows setting a manual IRQ. So I played with that.

Oddly enough I found that the SMBus would follow whatever IRQ I set the PCI slot2 IRQ to in the bios. So I set that to some other unused IRQ#.

So I moved the X-FI to slot 1, set it to unused IRQ5.

After rebooting, device manager showed the Audio Device as IRQ5
Installed the drivers, rebooted.
Now device manager shows the X-FI as PCI5, but IRQ20. I guess that's ACPI doing its thing.
Fortunately IRQ20 was not being shared with anything else.

Things seemed to work fine last night. Started it up this morning and it freaked out again. Not only did my sound not work, my ethernet wasn't working either (coincidence, or network fart i'm not sure). It did not seem like any of my IRQ#s changed or anything. After rebooting it twice it went back to working.

I think I may tinker with diabling ACPI next, although I may lose the C1E benefit by doing so? See if I can get all my devices on unshared IRQs. If that doesn't work I may flash down to F7. I probably won't have the time to debug until the weekend though.

For reference, the exact issue that I see is that when I boot up, the mixer doesn't load, and trying to use any app that would use the X-FI freezes the app. If I give it about 5 minutes it stops freezing up. Windows itself does not crash/lock as a result of this. The X-FI is not missing from device manager or show any sort of strange status.

I need to double check my chipset drivers are up to date, and I need to see if the Event log is barfing any useful info.
 
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