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Overclocking with Gigabyte P35C-DS3R and Intel Q6600

Overclocking/Overclocking Tests by KeithSuppe @ 2008-03-27

Overclocking successfully requires a mix of the right components, we take a closer look at the pinnacle of affordability and performance product from Gigabyte, the P35C-DS3R, testing with a Quad Core Q6600 we see how we can fly with a water cooled CPU and some spicy DDR2 memory modules.

The Board Cont.

Storage, Optical and Audio:

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Gigabyte has chose the ITE IT8718F-S as the "Super I/O" chip. For Audio another ITE products was spec'd the Realtek ALC889A supplying 7.1 surround sound, 2-channel independent stereo output via the front panel at a 106dB S/N Ratio. Our sample was an early Rev 1.1, highlighted below with the chips mentioned.

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For LAN, a single Gigabit Ethernet port is controlled by the Realtek RTL8111B chip which is connected the PCI-E bus.

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Storage controllers include a JMicron JMB363 housed beneath the "Gigabyte SATA 2" chip which supports a single IDE Parallel ATA-133 port and two SATA-300 ports. The Gigabyte SATA-2 chip supports RAID 0, 1, JBOD and eSATA. Additionally the Intel ICH9R Southbridge controls six SATA-300 ports supporting RAID 0,1, 5 and 10.

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Albeit overkill the P35C-DS3R offers a total of 12 USB 2.0/1.1 ports, four on the Rear Panel and 8 on the board itself requiring I/O brackets, seen below.

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Onto BIOS options...

Comment from thorgal @ 2008/03/27

Nicely written Keith ! Good thing you linked to Anand : the vdroop article by Kris is one of the best OC articles I've ever come across!

Did you play around with the tRD (static tRead value) setting to try and increase FSB above 445 ? You should also have a look at Kris' follow up article to the vdroop article, and see what's the impact of tRD.

Only pity in the review imho is the fact that DDR3 was not tested at 400x8 as well, then we could have comparable results to DDR2. At 266FSB DDR3 on this board seems slightly faster.

Comment from Massman @ 2008/03/27

Good job, Keith, liked the extensive text and the test

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