Recent content by John2777

Well, the performance settings are a bit puzzling. I got home awhile ago and my computer with the Patriot Extreme memory was still running Prime 95 at 3.15ghz on the extreme setting for 7 hours. So, I stopped the test, installed Memset and checked the settings. The performance setting was 5...

xeico, That was a great idea. I downloaded the program and ran it on a 2nd computer with the same mobo and a Q6600 (SLACR), but GSkill DDR2 1066 memory and the Intel CPU cooler. I was able to boot into all three performance settings, Standad, Turbo and Extreme. Well, all the settings on...

Another For example.... My system has been running at these settings with the EXTREME Performance in Bios for over 2 hrs on Prime 95: 9x350 PCIe=100 memory divider =3 voltage-manual=1.3128 Cpu-Z reads 1.280 Memory timing-manual=5,5,5,15 This setup will run only several seconds in...

OK, I'm a newbie to overclocking, but not a total idiot... at least I don't think so... I have a GA-EP35-DS3P mobo, paired with a Q6600 (SLACR), Xigmatek S1283, and 2 GB of Patriot Extreme DDR2 1150 memory. My setup works fine at STANDARD performance setting at 266X9. But when I try to OC...

I have a question on stability. When do you consider a OC setting stable and adequate? If Prime 95 runs for 15 minutes without errors, is that sufficient to delcare victory? Or do you have to continue doing this for several hours? My next observation, and taking into acount that I am a...

Well, my GA-EP35-DS3P is trying to kill by Q6600! When I had the voltage set to AUTO in the bios, it pushed the vCore to 1.55 at just 9x333. I makes me wonder what my board was running at when I ran it at 9x425! That would be about 3.8 ghz and pretty hot. Well, I guess I'll just have to...

Well, I definately don't want to kill anything! I would say that understanding the voltages and how to set them is the challening part of overclocking. I had read an article reviewing the GA-EP35-DS3P and the reviewer mentioned how nice the AUTO voltage feature was. I'll look to see what...

Hope you don't mind if I join in here and ask a few questions. I also just got a Q6600 SLACR from Newegg. I picked up a GA-EP35-DS3P Rev 2.1 on Ebay and thought I'd try a bit of overclocking. I'm a new to overclocking... in fact, this is really my first time... but I'm thinking I might be...

Actually, I was getting info for a friend to help build a system. I recently built a system for myself using a GA-EP35-DS3P motherboard. It came with the F1 bios. This had the DPC Latency stepping problem. Then I flashed the F3 bios. That also had the stepping problem. I then sent an email...

Nafets, Thanks, I appreciate you taking the time to run that test. That is good news. It looks like Gigabyte is responding to the DPC issue. 5-7ms is perfect. If you move the mouse during the monitoring it will usually go to about 18-20, if it's a USB mouse. For some reason a PS2 mouse...

I'm trying to get some info on the new released Gigabyte EP45 series of motherboards and if they have the DPC latency problem. I do audio recording and processing on my computer and high DPC latency prevents the audio software from using low buffer settings. That means during live recording...