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DS3 Rev 3.3

Justinkoko said:
so what the hell is the difference?

i have ver 1 and runs 480+mhz stable..

just wondering why ppl are so anxious to get 3.0 no matter what..
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Rev1 boards, some used the c1 revision of the chipset, and some c2. Rev2 and 3.3 should both be all c2 revision.

I've owned two rev2's and one rev1 and honestly couldn't stand either of them. Rev1 is definitely a more sensitive board. However, the rev2 later proved to be problematic as well. All in all, the ds3's as a whole are just a major headache in my opinion. 3.3 will support 1333 cpu's, and has allegedly different circuitry than the rev2 (which was different than rev1). Perhaps it'd have a higher general stability as an average and less of a headache.
 
ziddey said:
Rev1 boards, some used the c1 revision of the chipset, and some c2. Rev2 and 3.3 should both be all c2 revision.

I've owned two rev2's and one rev1 and honestly couldn't stand either of them. Rev1 is definitely a more sensitive board. However, the rev2 later proved to be problematic as well. All in all, the ds3's as a whole are just a major headache in my opinion. 3.3 will support 1333 cpu's, and has allegedly different circuitry than the rev2 (which was different than rev1). Perhaps it'd have a higher general stability as an average and less of a headache.
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what kind of problem? like i said..for me anyways rev 1 ds3 runs perfect..

E6300 oced to 3.1ghz at stock voltage..air cooled..with no extra mod for mobo at all..

support for 1333mhz? what is that? FSB of new intel processor? isn't that pointless since we ocers oc our gears anyways and hence reach 1333mhz with ease...am i missing something or what?
 
support for 1333mhz? what is that? FSB of new intel processor? isn't that pointless since we ocers oc our gears anyways and hence reach 1333mhz with ease...am i missing something or what?
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Nope you not missing a thing, new bios option for Joe Sixpack and manufactures for new 1333FSB chips, bios detects processor ID and sets it up for defautls at 1333, no math required. /yawn
 
dolphumous said:
3 port firewire... $10 shipped
http://meritline.stores.yahoo.net/via-vt6306-4-ports-pci-to-ieee-1394-firewire-controller-card.html
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I have a firewire card. I just don't want to take up a PCI slot with one and PCIE firewire cards all seem to run 40 or 50 bucks (which seems pretty outrageous for a basic I/O card). I've got 2 sound cards and a wireless card that I'd like to stick in the 3 slots....that's one of the reasons I wanted the DS3 (the extra PCI slot).
 
ziddey said:
Once you have one, it's not hard to get two.
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Not to be dense, but what are you talking about?

And it's ok that it doesn't have a built in controller....I'm not really going to mode a MB. I'll sell it and buy a different one long before I do that.
 
nilepez said:
Not to be dense, but what are you talking about?

And it's ok that it doesn't have a built in controller....I'm not really going to mode a MB. I'll sell it and buy a different one long before I do that.
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You were talking about why they couldn't have just one 1394 instead of two. I'm saying that it doesn't have the controller so it can't have any. But if there were to be a controller, it wouldn't cost really anything at all to have headers on the motherboard for another 1394.
 
dolphumous said:
3 port firewire... $10 shipped
http://meritline.stores.yahoo.net/via-vt6306-4-ports-pci-to-ieee-1394-firewire-controller-card.html
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hey that's a good deal. it looks like the internal firewire port is just a normal one. anyone know if there are any similar ones that use the traditional internal firewire headers? since my case has a front port, but needs the headers to connect to.

edit: looks like newegg has a bunch for around the same price http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...firewire&Submit=ENE&N=0&Ntk=all&Go.x=0&Go.y=0 some have internal headers for a little more like http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16815124034 but it's only 1+1.
 
ziddey said:
You were talking about why they couldn't have just one 1394 instead of two. I'm saying that it doesn't have the controller so it can't have any. But if there were to be a controller, it wouldn't cost really anything at all to have headers on the motherboard for another 1394.
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If I wrote that, I apologize. What I meant was why couldn't they at least have put 1 on there, if not 2 or 3.

I'd pay an extra 10 bucks for the 1394 port. I just can't justify paying the price of the DQ6 and frankly none of the other Gigabyte 965 boards have as many PCI slots.

In the end, I'll probably end up swapping out a sound card when I want to do a bunch of scanning.
 
As much as I am satisfied with my OC, i hate this board


As was said before, it doesn't hold the overclock, and everytime i turn my computer off i have to reset the CMOS

it's starting to irk me
 
AMD T-type said:
As much as I am satisfied with my OC, i hate this board


As was said before, it doesn't hold the overclock, and everytime i turn my computer off i have to reset the CMOS

it's starting to irk me
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lol thanks. finally someone who agrees with what I'm saying. It does seem to have very potentialful overclocks that are fairly easy to achieve with the least amount of tweaking. But it's got all sorts of inconsistency problems that make you pull your hair out. I've since switched to a p5b vanilla and absolutely love the shit out of it
 
ziddey said:
I've since switched to a p5b vanilla and absolutely love the shit out of it
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I never owned the Gigabyte board, but I love my P5B Deluxe. I loved my A7N8X and my 7VAXP (Gigabyte) blew caps and RMA took TWO MONTHS.

Granted, my A7N8X started to show bulging caps and RMA took less than two weeks round trip.

+2 ASUS
 
kent said:
I never owned the Gigabyte board, but I love my P5B Deluxe. I loved my A7N8X and my 7VAXP (Gigabyte) blew caps and RMA took TWO MONTHS.

Granted, my A7N8X started to show bulging caps and RMA took less than two weeks round trip.

+2 ASUS
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wow that's pretty impressive. I've heard some pretty horrible stories about asus rma as well, but it sounds like they're shaping up.

I know a lot of people are jumping ship from p5b's to ds3's just like people are going from ds3's to p5b's. But with that said, if I started off with a p5b, I doubt that I'd have switched over to ds3. Or if I did, I would have been quite the unhappy camper
 
Been doing some thinking and I can see now that gigabyte may have done more than what a lot of us are thinking with the 3.3's. They said they changed some of the circuitry, and someone mentioned that there's a new 4:5 for 1333strap. This actually would make sense. I remember now that I was able to use 4:5 while at 400fsb with some bioses. However, I was never able to scale much higher than that (if at all. I don't recall anymore since I never focused much on 4:5). It could have been because running 4:5 and >400fsb was forcing the board to hold on to 1066strap since it wasn't implemented in the 1333strap.
 
does anyone know what the max memory voltage goes upto in the DS3 rev.3.3 model? Will this board boot with Crucial Tracer PC-8000?
 
just wanted to rescind my previous post about a better working 2.5x. From reading around, it sounds like it's actually a new 2.66x (4:3) in 1333strap. That's kind of exciting but overall still more or less pointless for most of us who will run 1:1. However, that said, it's cool to have a new divider, since 4:3 currently iirc runs off the 800strap and is no good much beyond 266fsb if at all.

That said, it would seem like dividers are a characteristic of the chipset itself and nothing any circuitry could change, so that leaves me a little puzzled. Do 3.3 have some new c3 revision or something that has been modified?? I'm guessing no
 
From reading reviews on Newegg looks like they are shipping rev 3.3's now. I see at least 10 reviews where customers are receiving 3.3. :c)
 
I just got mine from newegg yesterday. It has the sticker with the new bus speed on it but the manual is for rev 2.0 still. Haven;t had a chance to build the computer yet so not sure of it.
 
Bought mine from Club IT, Got it today :D

this is my first intel board since about 3 or 4 amd PCs, i love it, especially the ease of overclocking, way easier than my a8n and dfi s939 boards.

I especially like how it recognized my 1.9v RAM without having to put one stick in slot 4 and set the volts in bios, stuck in slot 1 and 3 and booted up right off the bat.. knowing this board is supposed to be picky (from what ive read, it only likes 1.8v to start with).

im happy so far :)
 
blendingnoise said:
I just got mine from newegg yesterday. It has the sticker with the new bus speed on it but the manual is for rev 2.0 still. Haven;t had a chance to build the computer yet so not sure of it.
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You shoud've gotten yours from ClubIT. Now it's only $116.xx. At least early Tuesday anyway.
 
I have a DS3 and E6400 coming in thursday from the egg, I will let you guys know what revision it ends up being.... *crosses fingers for 3.3*
 
I have the DS3 rev 1 with the revision C2 chipset (according to cpu-z). My experience is that it has been overall a very stable board. I've only seen one blue screen in all the time I've had it, and that was due to not enough voltage to my overclocked memory.
 
Ok I'm using this board to build a machine for a friend's dad. I need it ultra stable absolutely no overclocking. Is F10 the bios to get? I notice it's from January on the gigabyte website, is it a unified bios? No special ones right?
 
ufot said:
picked a 3.3 up from clubit other day. should be here soon.
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same here.. getting it friday. What kind of overclocks do you think I can get with this board, an e6700 and super talent pc6400 ram? Oh yeah this is with scythe ninja.
 
deeznuts said:
Ok I'm using this board to build a machine for a friend's dad. I need it ultra stable absolutely no overclocking. Is F10 the bios to get? I notice it's from January on the gigabyte website, is it a unified bios? No special ones right?
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F10 is stable, and it was supposed to fix the XiFi problem. I don't have one so I don't know which ones really fixed it or not.

But I think the F7 was the best for overclocking.
 
deeznuts said:
Ok I'm using this board to build a machine for a friend's dad. I need it ultra stable absolutely no overclocking. Is F10 the bios to get? I notice it's from January on the gigabyte website, is it a unified bios? No special ones right?
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Isn't F4 the most recent bios for rev 3.3? That's what I saw onthe website.
 
OK, got my DS3 in today, and it's a revision 3.3!!! Came with the F9 bios as well, and currently I already am running my E6400 at 320x8 for a nice and easy 2.56ghz at stock volts. I am testing stability with Orthos and RTHDRIBL at the moment. More to come.....

No cold boot issue, everything seems very nice.


EDIT: Vista had all my platform drivers, all I had to install was my tv tuner software and the GTS drivers.....should I leave the Intel platform drivers alone? Or, are there bettter ones to be had....
 
I got the a 3.3 version board from Newegg yesterday with F9 bios. Very nice board. It seems like I have the dreaded cold boot issue. I can overclock no problem and system is stable with Orthos. I can also restart with no issues. If I turn off machine and come back hours later it does not boot, I end up clearing cmos.

I have an e4300 and 2x1gb Geil PC2 6400 ram (GX22GB6400UDCK). Temps seem fine, I'm running at 27C at idle while at 2.4 GHz (stock volts and 9x266).

Anyone have any ideas? Can someone point me to a thread about how to solve this issue?

edit: I replaced the battery and problem is fixed...doooooh!

Thanks
 
FlipCody, I have the same ram I think, no cold boot issue here....my BIOS was the F9, and I am already testing at an easy 2.8ghz.....rock solid with 3+ hours of ORTHOS going....
 
Bad news with the 3.3 revision. I got a hold of a 3.3 and tested it out.

With the 2.0 revision I was hitting 3.6 Ghz with an E6600. The 3.3 revision won't even post for me at 2.7 Ghz. All the same hardware and all the same bios settings. What the hell did they change??!!
 
sanvara said:
Bad news with the 3.3 revision. I got a hold of a 3.3 and tested it out.

With the 2.0 revision I was hitting 3.6 Ghz with an E6600. The 3.3 revision won't even post for me at 2.7 Ghz. All the same hardware and all the same bios settings. What the hell did they change??!!
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you able to take a dmm and measure some voltages? might be setting them improperly
 
I read somewhere that the DS3 has issues with RAM thats over 1.8 volts and that you need to use 1.8 voltage RAM to get the board to boot. Is this true or has this issue been resolved with the newest revision?
 
amdfan25 said:
I read somewhere that the DS3 has issues with RAM thats over 1.8 volts and that you need to use 1.8 voltage RAM to get the board to boot. Is this true or has this issue been resolved with the newest revision?
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Not true anymore,Mine booted right up with my Coirsair (

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820145034 ) I think any board purchased by now will have this fixed in bios by now anyway.My rev. 3.3 came with F10........................:)
 
My board had no problem with the ram, I have some Geil that is rated from 1.9v-2.3v, it's a 3.3 with F9 bios, and it DOES have the cold boot issue.....I have to cycle the power several times to get it to boot once it has fully shut off, and this is....irritating...to say the least. I wonder if flashing to the F10 bios might help this issue?
 
TheRapture said:
My board had no problem with the ram, I have some Geil that is rated from 1.9v-2.3v, it's a 3.3 with F9 bios, and it DOES have the cold boot issue.....I have to cycle the power several times to get it to boot once it has fully shut off, and this is....irritating...to say the least. I wonder if flashing to the F10 bios might help this issue?
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NO cold boot with F10....................;)
 
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