Gigabyte GA-P35-DS4 Rev.2

[PowerHungry42]

After issue after issue with an Asus P5E, I bought the motherboard in the title today from the egg.

Does anyone know anything about it??

 

[de8212]

I have had it for about a month. so far, so good.

anything specific you'd like to know?

 

[Ozoneman]

I think you made a good choice. My P35-DQ6 is very similar to it and I expect it to be as reliable as my mobo.

 

[PowerHungry42]

Glad to hear that, I wanted a stable workhorse type of motherboard without the memory issues I had with the Asus P5E (which they still haven't fixed).

I'm not overclocking my E6850 or the 2 sticks of G.Skill DDR2 PC6400 (4 gigs) memory and this motherboard seemed to have most of the bells and whistles without costing an arm and a leg.

 

[Cheex]

Are there any cold boot issues with this board?

A cold boot on my P965-DS3 often resets my OC to stock speed.

 

[de8212]

Originally posted by: Cheex
Are there any cold boot issues with this board?

A cold boot on my P965-DS3 often resets my OC to stock speed.

Not on mine. I have been running 3.2GHz almost 24/7 for ~6 weeks or more.

 

[Denithor]

Those 965P-DS3 boards (especially rev1.0) were rather flaky. I had issues with mine accepting OCZ gold memory sticks and it would also sometimes reset to completely stock BIOS settings for no apparent reason during a normal start-up.

I'm much happier with my IP35-E, even got a better overclock with my e6400 on it (3GHz @ stock volts vs 2.66GHz @ 1.35v on 965P-DS3).

 

[PowerHungry42]

I've installed this motherboard and been running flawlessly ever since. By far, one of the most stable motherboards i've ever owned.

 

[treker]

I LOVE this mobo! Best One I've ever owned. Rock stable at 25% overclock while undervolting! And when I really want to run cool and quiet, I undervolt my Q6600 to 1.0V at stock 2.4ghz. No boot issues. I do have to reset bios when I bump from stock to 3.0ghz or else it goes into endless loop of restarts. But you should always reset bios after a big change in parameters. Bios has lots of options. Memory settings. Voltages for NB, Memory, CPU, PCI, etc. Even my Crucial Ballistix that like 2.2V run cool and stable at the default 1.8V.

The heat pipes run cool and don't interfere with cpu with huge Ninja or my 8600gt fanless video card with huge heatsink on both sides.

 

[gamerxx13]

hey i read one of your threads. well i wanted to ask you something. i just got a gigabyte p35 ds4 and trying to overclock my q6600 to 3.0 i have 2x2gb of skill memory 800. im trying to overclock but th esystem memory muliplier is on auto...and when the cpu buss is 333 then the memory mulplier is 100 which is too much..why is it so much shouldnt it be 667??

 

[gamerxx13]

hey, i had a question about the gigabyte p35. i just bought the gigabyte ds4 p35. im having problems overclocking it. whenever i try to overclock it, the system memory multiplier is always on auto, and when i raise the fsb to 333 to get it to 3.0 but the system memory multiper is on auto and goes to 780. why is it doing this it should be at 667?

 

[tenax]

don't know why it chose a 4 to 5 type ratio, but to take your multis etc out of auto mode so you can set 1 to 1 etc, when you're on the main page of the bios only, press ctrl and F1 at the same time, the screen will flicker for a sec and you'll get all overclocking options..hidden normally for good reason it would make sense given this a 333 board that the fsb would at stock be 333, but why the bios chose to change the ratio, who knows? maybe simply what it detected the memory could easily do.

 

[cozumel]

The BIOS is one of the few things with the DS4 that I not 100% happy with. I mean, everything is adjustable, all the voltages, timings etc. But none of it is crystal clear. Like it doesn't actually say what voltage the memory is at when overvolting etc. You need to do mental arithmetic to work it out or else boot and use CPU-Z or something. Has all the functionality of an Asus just not as user-friendly imo. But overall, it is one helluva great board.

 

[gamerxx13]

hey man, i was reading one of your posts on anandtech...and i was wondering if you can help me:
i have a q6600 and a gigabyte p35 ds4. i was wondering if you could help me with overclocking.. i have ddr 2 gskill 800 2x 2 gb so i have 4 gigs of memory. i also have a thermalright 120 extreme.

okay the question i had was this, when i try to raise the fsb to 333 so i can acheive 3.0 ghz, the ram multiplier is on auto, and it always raises my ram speed to 1000. so when i try to boot up it is unstable and doesnt boot up. why is it doing this. shouldnt it be 667? i do not know how to change it on this board. thanks..i hope you can help =)

 

[cozumel]

Originally posted by: gamerxx13

hey man, i was reading one of your posts on anandtech...and i was wondering if you can help me:
i have a q6600 and a gigabyte p35 ds4. i was wondering if you could help me with overclocking.. i have ddr 2 gskill 800 2x 2 gb so i have 4 gigs of memory. i also have a thermalright 120 extreme.

okay the question i had was this, when i try to raise the fsb to 333 so i can acheive 3.0 ghz, the ram multiplier is on auto, and it always raises my ram speed to 1000. so when i try to boot up it is unstable and doesnt boot up. why is it doing this. shouldnt it be 667? i do not know how to change it on this board. thanks..i hope you can help =)

I've PM'd you the correct settings. Read up the overclocking guide in this forum and other forums on how changing FSB speeds effects the rest of your system. And merry christmas gamerxx13.

 

[Panorama]

I cant find all bios releases for p35-dsr REV 2.0

 

[TraumaRN]

Awesome board. Been running it stable at setting in sig below for about 2 months now. Great motherboard. Make sure to get the BIOS updates as well(F9 is the latest). My board will do 450 FSB no problem. And never once had an issue with memory.