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    Cooling the Gigabyte DS3 south bridge

    My recent build include a Gigabyte 965P-DS3 board and a EVGA 8800GTS video card. The south bridge is half buried underneath the massive heatsink of the 8800 GTS. The yellow colored south bridge heatsink feels quite hot by touch. I am trying to find a way to lower the south bridge...
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    Overclock E6600 on DS3 changes the PCIE bandwidth ?

    I overclocked E6600 on Gigabyte 965P DS3 by setting 9x333Mhz = 3.0 GHz. The PCI-E frequence was set to 100MHz. Memory runs at 333x 2.0 = 667 MHz. BIOS is F10 version. The setup is easy and stable. But in CPU-Z, the video interface shows only x1 link width out of the possible x16 speed. The...
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    How to fix PCI-E link width while overclocking on Gigabyte DS3 ?

    I overclocked E6600 on Gigabyte 965P DS3 by setting 9x333Mhz = 3.0 GHz. The PCI-E frequence was set to 100MHz. Memory runs at 333x 2.0 = 667 MHz. BIOS is F10 version. The setup is easy and stable. But in CPU-Z, the video interface shows only x1 link width out of the possible x16 speed. It...
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    Gigabyte 965P DS3 audio problem in Vista x64

    Just built a DS3 (rev 3.3) system with Windows Vista home premium 64 bit. The onboard audio chip is Realtek ALC888. Loaded driver version 6.0.1.5392 and used in Stereo mode. When I play music in iTunes or Windows Media Player etc while browsing internet, there's occasional "static" noise...