jouno53
Palin 2012
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| Gigabyte P35 DS3R Memory Support
Hello, I'm going to be buying the parts for my computer soon, and had a question about memory compatibility on the Gigabyte P35 DS3R motherboard.
The ram I have picked out is:
OCZ Platinum Revision 2 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400)
»www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a···20227139
Now, on the memory support list for the board, that specific memory is not listed, but the 1066 version, I guess you could say, of it is. Will this memory work? If not, do you have any other suggestions for memory that will work but is in the same price-range/specs?
Thank you.
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Octavean
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| Currently I’m using the following memory on the Gigabyte P35C-DS3R motherboard:
OCZ 1GB (2 x 512MB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory - Retail
CORSAIR XMS2 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory - Retail
RAM wise the board seems to be fairly tolerant from what I can see. As I recall I bout the OCZ 1GB kit for ~$37.99 plus S&H from clubit3d so that's why I ran with it. I later added the Crosair 2GB kit for about ~$60 A/R or so,….don’t really remember now. |
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jouno53
Palin 2012
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United State | Ok, seems good enough. So you think the memory I picked out will work well with the P35-DS3R?
Say, for some reason, it didn't - is Newegg good with returns of that sort? |
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delt4
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That memory should work. Keep in mind that the P35 ds3r mobo defaults the mem voltages to 1.8. According to Newegg, the memory that you have selected has an operating voltage of 1.9V - 2.1V. You may need to bump up the memory slightly on the mobo to match.
I have the crucial 1066 and I had to drop the mem speeds with Vista in order to run stable. I have my CPU (e6750) OC'ed to almost 3.4GHz and was getting crashes. Dropping the mem speed as strange as it may sound actually increased my mem benchmarks. My current mem speed is 517.5 x2 = 1034. |
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nokken
join:2001-02-07
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clubs:  | Yea the DS3R will default the DDR2 modules to 1.8v
The option in the BIOS is similar to "OverVolt DRAM" or something.
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jouno53
Palin 2012
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United State | So would upping the voltage on the DS3R to meat my memory's standard would technically be overclocking it? Will this be easy to do? |
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Punchline
join:2005-10-11
University Of Richmond, VA | reply to jouno53
I wouldn't consider that overclocking, as you're not changing the actual speed of the memory, or more specifically, how quickly the memory is accessed. And yes, it should be simple to do, depending on the bios. It takes me less than ten seconds. |
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Octavean
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Both the installed OCZ and Crosair RAM on my Gigabyte P35C-DS3R motherboard have a recommended setting of 2.1v. I didn’t bother to check if they were indeed set to 2.1v in the BIOS but its is a very stable system in either case.
I’ll probably tweak it and OC the Q6600 after I replace the installed X1650 Pro with something a little faster like an 8800 series class card or HD 2900 series class card (or their respective successors 9800xxx / HD 2950xxx). |
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delt4
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said by jouno53  :So would upping the voltage on the DS3R to meat my memory's standard would technically be overclocking it? Will this be easy to do? No, it would not OC your memory's speed. Just give it more power. The p35 mobo comes with speed fan, (at least mine did) on the mobo cd. Use this to monitor the voltage and adjust accordingly in bios using the info explained below. If you did get the memory you said you would get in your above post, then the voltage range is 1.9 - 2.1 volts. I would initially set the voltage to 1.9 and see if that will run stable for you. Do take note that when accessing the bios of this particular board, you may need to hit the ctrl and F1 keys when on the first menu page of the bios to access the advanced options for this. Also, when you adjust the voltage, the bios will not tell you the current voltage. You will need to use speed fan to check the results. The bios memory will increase in increments of +1 +2 +3 and so forth. So if the bios default memory voltage is 1.8 by default, you will need to increase to +1 to get to 1.9 volts.
If you do get that particular memory, after installing, run speed fan FIRST. After launching speed fan, click on the 'charts' tab up top and then where it says analyze, select voltages. Select the Vcore1 box. This is your memory voltage. Vcore2 is CPU voltage. If speed fan has your voltage at 1.8, adjust to 1.9 and see how that works. |
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Octavean
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| I don’t recall seeing “Speed Fan” on the install disc. Gigabyte “Easy Tune5” was on the install disc but it was IMO very buggy in Vista. Easy Tune5 might work well in XP though. Utilities like this often allow voltage changes rather then having to enter the BIOS.
Directly adjusting setting in the BIOS is probably the better way to go here though IMO. I hear that Gigabyte boards using the new X38 chipset will have a new “Easy Tune 5 Pro” utility,….probably buggy too,… |
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jouno53
Palin 2012
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Thanks for the info guys, I'm going to save that info for later.
I should be buying my parts by this weekend. 
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