Gigabyte GA965P-DQ6 - nice all around mobo

[acruxksa]

Hi all,
I just want to say that I crossed over to the dark side and went with a C2D board for my latest computer. If anyone is looking for a new C2D mobo I can highly recommend the DQ6. It is a great mobo. Although, you can save some money and go with the GA-965P-DS3 and get most of the same features. These mobo's aren't the fastest and don't oc the highest, but mine has been quite stable and it was unbelievably easy to get my e6400 to 3.2Ghz.

An item of note is that you need to pay close attention to the memory you choose. Particularly the memories default voltage. Some higher voltage memory will have problems booting up initially. My Buffalo firestix are supposed to run @ 2.1v, but the mobo only gives them 1.8v so I had to get into the bios and up the voltage before the system locked up. This took me about 3 tries to finally get working. Memory manufacturers are catching on though and putting an spd profile on their sticks to help with this.

[starshooter10]

hey what are you FSB VSB and multiplyer at??

and what cooler are you use'in?

(i still have stock)

i've odne a little OC"in on this new system but i don't wanna push it all out untlill i order a new water block... (old one is a SKT A)

my system is almost the same LOL

[starshooter10]

hmmm just took a closer look at you sig.... so what is your votage lol

[acruxksa]

set to 1.3875v in the bios, but actual ends up being 1.35v
These things screem.

Just fyi, I tried to use 4x1Gb of ram (2 sticks of buffalo pc26400 and 2 sticks of patriot pc25300 low latency) and was unable to overclock at all. Separately they both will reach 400Mhz, but just not together. I don't know if it's because they are different brands or if it's a mobo issue. I disabled everything in the bios that was recommended, but still no go. Oh well, 2gb will work for now and i have 2gb standing by for another system when time and $$$ allow.

Also,
I moved my system over to an Antec 900 case yesterday and the improved case air flow dropped my cpu core temps by 3c and my gpu core temps by 5c.
current loaded cpu temp is 44-46c and loaded gpu temps are 49-53c.

[starshooter10]

lol yeah

think about it this way...

PC 6400 is DDR 800.
so 400MHZ is it's native speed

while the 5300 is DDR 667

so it's native is 333

so i can see why it won't work with the 333MHZ ram installed LOL


and yeah i LOVE my antec 900

i never thought i'd spend that much on a case untill i saw it at COMPUSA with 75$ in MIR's

it's nice

im always worried im gonna set somthing on top of the 200mm fan's grill and bend it in =-(

also you tend to get a dust print in front of the front 120's

pain to install HDD"s
it's a nice case tho

[acruxksa]

Disregard the empty wine bottle in the trash, we've got plenty of full ones so there's nothing to worry about.

[Cleo8]

I've heard it supports 1333mhz bus, if to update the bios