Question regarding Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3 & X6800

[m21s]

My buddy just put together his x6800 with the DS3 gigabyte board yesterday.

He's telling me his CPU Freq. is set at 200Mhz in his BIOS.
Now I beleive this should be 266 correct? (266x11=2.9)

Are you supposed to just change this manually?
He using DDR2-800 Ram also with this. And the system memory multiplier is set to auto.
Is that ok also?

Thanks!

I'll do my best to answer any Q's but I do not have this system, its my friends who was questioning these settings.

Oh yeah- He's updated to the F3 BIOS also!

 

[thilanliyan]

I just installed my E6400 with the DS3 and I got the same issue a couple of times. Has not happened since.

Disable fsb overclocking in the bios and it should stay at 266. It only happened to me after I enabled the fsb change.

Hehe, your buddy splurged on the CPU but paired it with a DS3??

 

[m21s]

When he first fired it up it was set to 200, He never changed it to 266.

Q- was he supposed to?

Its not like it was 266, and changed to 200.

It was never at 266 to begin with?

So is it safe for him to put it to 266? This is where it should be correct?

 

[stevty2889]

Originally posted by: m21s
When he first fired it up it was set to 200, He never changed it to 266.

Q- was he supposed to?

Its not like it was 266, and changed to 200.

It was never at 266 to begin with?

So is it safe for him to put it to 266? This is where it should be correct?

Yes, set it to 266. FSB overclocking might be enabled by default, so as thilan suggested, double check to be sure it's disabled.