- May 18, 2006
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I currently run a pentium D 940 and will be slowly (but surely) migrating my system to core 2 duo. My plan is to first purchase the DS3 motherboard and run my 940 until I can afford an E6300. I'm on a really tight budget right now and cannot afford to make both purchases at once. With the DS3 i'll be able to get the 940 hopefully past 4ghz until i get the e6300, which I will also overclock.
The problem i'm having is, right now i'm running 2gb DDR2 667mhz with the PD940, and the DS3 specs says I will need DDR2 800mhz. Here's what Newegg has posted in the specs:
"Notice: Only DDR2-800 memory supporting JEDEC approved 1.8V operation with timings of 5-5-5 or 6-6-6 is supported on Intel Desktop Boards based on Intel 965 Express Chipsets."
Unfortunately I'm not going to have enough money left over to buy new ram for the system, so i'm wondering if anyone knows if the DS3 has any memory controls in the BIOS. The board i'm running now lets me run my memory clock and the FSB clock at different speeds, so that I can reach high OC speeds with the processor, but keep my memory speeds fairly close to stock since they don't overclock too well. Does anyone know if the DS3 has any BIOS features like this, and if i'll be able to run a conroe with DDR2 667 while overclocking just the CPU? I'm sure i won't see too much of a performance degrade with the memory running around 700mhz instead of 800mhz if it is possible with the Gigabyte board. ???
The problem i'm having is, right now i'm running 2gb DDR2 667mhz with the PD940, and the DS3 specs says I will need DDR2 800mhz. Here's what Newegg has posted in the specs:
"Notice: Only DDR2-800 memory supporting JEDEC approved 1.8V operation with timings of 5-5-5 or 6-6-6 is supported on Intel Desktop Boards based on Intel 965 Express Chipsets."
Unfortunately I'm not going to have enough money left over to buy new ram for the system, so i'm wondering if anyone knows if the DS3 has any memory controls in the BIOS. The board i'm running now lets me run my memory clock and the FSB clock at different speeds, so that I can reach high OC speeds with the processor, but keep my memory speeds fairly close to stock since they don't overclock too well. Does anyone know if the DS3 has any BIOS features like this, and if i'll be able to run a conroe with DDR2 667 while overclocking just the CPU? I'm sure i won't see too much of a performance degrade with the memory running around 700mhz instead of 800mhz if it is possible with the Gigabyte board. ???