Just build my new pc over the weekend and I am having the damndest time trying to overclock this puppy. I have the rev 1 ds3 and sometimes it does not save my bios settings. I have tried the various guides but to no avail, the only time i was half successful with an overclock was when i upped the vcore to 1.4 and the memory to 2.1, which did post but for some odd reason did not recognize my hard drives =[. Does anybody have a template I can follow to overclock? I am using f7 bios if that helps any. My memory is some c4 corsair xms which i ran at 5-5-5-15 to try and at least get into windows but no luck. Any help would be greatly appreciated =D
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E4300 DS3 Overclocking headaches
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I am running a retail E4300/Rev 1 DS3 w/ F7 bios/Corsair XMS c5 PC5200/Maxtor 400gb sata II/Xfx7900gs/Antec Neo HE 550. Right off the bat I tried to flash to f10 but it kept on saying bios checksum error while under qflash. I grabbed the file off gigabytes site so im confused. I suppose I will try to flash it to f10 again, do you guys have a link to that bios that will work with rev 1? Thanks!
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download this file and run it to extract to floppy.
http://www.gigabyte.us/Support/Motherboard/BIOS_DownloadFile.aspx?FileType=BIOS&FileID=12590
boot and go into bios and look at the bottom of the main bios menu screen and there is an F key that will update the bios.
Never use any kind of windows or software automatic update.
The shutdown and restaring loop is normal, the board is trying to adjust stuff and start up. If after 4 tries it wont boot, catch it when it is shut down, turn the power supply off at the rear of the PC, wait 20 sec , turn the power supply back on, start it from the front panel switch and most of the time it will boot with default speeds. If not you will have to clear the cmos to get back up and running.
Thats bullcrap to be honest, the fact that your distinct setup has a problem working with it or it is to do with your personal inabilities doesn't make it bad. I run F10 with my E6400 (450x8) and everything is perfect, hence I'd absolutely recommend upgrading to it.
Personally, F7 was my favorite bios. The problem with not saving o/c's a lot of people say is cured by bumping vmch to 1.55v (+0.3v). Make sure of adequate cooling on northbridge though. Glue a 50mm blowing down or get aftermarket heatsink.
Losing sata sounds like you're letting your pcie walk. Clamp it down at 100, and if that doesn't work, try higher settings. Personally, I used 110 and reaped whatever performance benefits from it. It doesn't really start getting much risky until around 120 or so. If you want to keep sanity, bump vpcie by 0.1v.
Maybe bumping vfsb some would help too. I believe stock is 1.2v. I'd say try +0.2v for 1.4v. Should be safe and help some in general.
But your problems with sata disappearing sounds like you need to lock down pcie.
ds3 personally was a bit of a headache. It was fun for a while, but after it ate my ram with only 2.2v and active cooling (d9gmh), I jumped ship to p5b vanilla. I found with that board that vmch at 1.25v can be iffy as well. Setting 1.40v on it cleared it up. Seems to have a lot to do with a lot of cold boot issues out there with people taking +0.1v's stability when it works, but suffering when it randomly gives trouble (not that the ds3 doesn't randomly give trouble anyway
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Losing sata sounds like you're letting your pcie walk. Clamp it down at 100, and if that doesn't work, try higher settings. Personally, I used 110 and reaped whatever performance benefits from it. It doesn't really start getting much risky until around 120 or so. If you want to keep sanity, bump vpcie by 0.1v.
Maybe bumping vfsb some would help too. I believe stock is 1.2v. I'd say try +0.2v for 1.4v. Should be safe and help some in general.
But your problems with sata disappearing sounds like you need to lock down pcie.
ds3 personally was a bit of a headache. It was fun for a while, but after it ate my ram with only 2.2v and active cooling (d9gmh), I jumped ship to p5b vanilla. I found with that board that vmch at 1.25v can be iffy as well. Setting 1.40v on it cleared it up. Seems to have a lot to do with a lot of cold boot issues out there with people taking +0.1v's stability when it works, but suffering when it randomly gives trouble (not that the ds3 doesn't randomly give trouble anyway
)