**Official ABIT IP-35 Pro Review/Overclock/Guide Thread**

[MichelinGuy]

Sorry to inform you guys this board sucks









Wow, memory bench sucks ass

Benched with: Intel Core 2 Duo E6700, 2x 1 GB DDR2-1066, nVidia GeForce 7800 GTX, Western Digital Raptor 74 GB (Vista)

[sofarfrome]

nothing a bios update won't fix...and posting this without the full review, just graphs of some synthetic benchmarks means nothing. How about a link to the intire review.

[Johnny Bravo]

MichelinGuy can you provide a link to this comparison please?

[luihed]

I havent had a chance to really test this board yet but from a few runs I did, its only a tad slower than my DFI 965-s ..... and thats at 500+ fsb so I dont think we have to worry about this board being slow lol.....

Review probably done by Toms hardware

[MichelinGuy]

It isn't a real review: http://www.hardware.info/en-US/produ..._Pro/index.php

[Johnny Bravo]

Benched with: Intel Core 2 Duo E6700, 2x 1 GB DDR2-1066, nVidia GeForce 7800 GTX, Western Digital Raptor 74 GB (Vista)

hmmm not exactly scientific, I'd like to repeat these benchmarks but there's no details given to setup the memory settings the same which seem to be the major problem here...

[MADMAX22]

Interesting issue. I have vdimm set to 2.28 in bios or roughly around there. It reads 2.8 in windows with the uguru utility.

When I run orthos on blend test it varies between 2.28 to 2.26 to 2.22. This doesnt seem right at all. I know most boards have a vdimm droop of a little like .01 maybe but this is really bad.

Anyone lese having this issue.

[luihed]

I didnt run Orthos but for spi 32M, it droops only .01v..... vcore is around .04-.06v.......

What bios are you guys using? If anybody is running the newest ( june) bios, can you check what the performance level is in Memset at 500fsb+.... I think my board with the original bios is running 1066strap at high fsb but I heard the newer bios makes it run at 1333strap instead....

[atlr]

[*]CPU usage: NVIDIA = Intel PHY < Intel PCIe < Realtek, Marvell (see also

I wonder why the Intel 82566 physical (PHY) interface is not used in more motherboard designs since the ICH9R contains an ethernet media access controller (MAC).

The only board makers I can find using the ICH9+82556DC for ethernet are Intel and ECS.

Intel 82566 Info

[TEDY]

i dont believe this ty hadrware info review....reliable my ass.

[mojo_lo]

It isn't a real review: http://www.hardware.info/en-US/produ..._Pro/index.php

all i see are board specs. where did those perf charts come from?

i'd trust TH over these mystery hardware.info tests anyday, but please give us more info.

[Ace-a-Rue]

Interesting issue. I have vdimm set to 2.28 in bios or roughly around there. It reads 2.8 in windows with the uguru utility.

When I run orthos on blend test it varies between 2.28 to 2.26 to 2.22. This doesnt seem right at all. I know most boards have a vdimm droop of a little like .01 maybe but this is really bad.

Anyone lese having this issue.

which Uguru version do you have installed?...if it is v3104, i would uninstall-reboot and then re-install.

[Ace-a-Rue]

Sorry to inform you guys this board sucks









Wow, memory bench sucks ass

Benched with: Intel Core 2 Duo E6700, 2x 1 GB DDR2-1066, nVidia GeForce 7800 GTX, Western Digital Raptor 74 GB (Vista)

i would not put it that way...it's definitely in need of bios tweaking!

i ran a PCMark 2005 on the QuadGT right before swapping to the IP35 Pro....all the same hardware was walked over to the Pro from the QuadGT.

here is what i get which reflects what is shown above in the charts.

EDIT:...i should have added that the QuadGT results was done at 390 FSB@9X = 3510 Mhz

[freeloader]

i would not put it that way...it's definitely in need of bios tweaking!

i ran a PCMark 2005 on the QuadGT right before swapping to the IP35 Pro....all the same hardware was walked over to the Pro from the QuadGT.

here is what i get which reflects what is shown above in the charts.

EDIT:...i should have added that the QuadGT results was done at 390 FSB@9X = 3510 Mhz

A 3% difference. That really sucks

[Ace-a-Rue]

i am hoping Abit is able to jump-start the Pro with more speed....it might take them about 2 months...i will stay hopeful.

[The Nemesis]

Thanks Ace-a-Rue. I was just about to grab one of these from the local Fry's. Seems the performance is not better than my DFI P965-S bench so I guess I'll continue to wait for the P38 release & upgrade my video cards instead.

[luihed]

I had the DFI 965-s and I think 1:1 at high fsb its one of the fastest ( 2nd maybe to the Abit Q-GT) boards out there because it stays at 1066strap.... My IP35 at 514fsb ( 3600mhz ) is only around a 1 sec behind in spi 32M so there is no way that that review is even close to being accurate.... Superpi 32M relies mostly on bandwidth though so its not the best way to compare them.... This BTW is out of the box without even tweaking the Performance level in Memset, its hard to tweak PL if its set at low levels to start with ...

@ Nemesis... 1:1 you wont gain much if any switching to this board but the dividers on this board are really usefull and they work at 500fsb+ .... Just need rams that can keep up.....

[strange|ife]

those benchs are suspect. iams ure this board isnt the best, but it is stable. so far for me.

and NB runs very cool, compared to nvidia stuff. I might try that june bios, a lil bit weary though, since it isnt listed on the global site.

runnin 400FSBx9 right now with 4gb gskill. voltages are nearly stock across the board, and its fully stable. love the 1333 bus, lots more headroom, without stressing the board

[Ace-a-Rue]

Thanks Ace-a-Rue. I was just about to grab one of these from the local Fry's. Seems the performance is not better than my DFI P965-S bench so I guess I'll continue to wait for the P38 release & upgrade my video cards instead.

i notice that Windows XP and PCMark 2005 interprets the speed of the processor incorrectly even though CPUz does see it right...it could be "the" or one of the reasons why the performance is lower since the bios might be kicking in higher latencies for the miss-reported cpu speed.

[Ace-a-Rue]

those benchs are suspect. iams ure this board isnt the best, but it is stable. so far for me.

and NB runs very cool, compared to nvidia stuff. I might try that june bios, a lil bit weary though, since it isnt listed on the global site.

runnin 400FSBx9 right now with 4gb gskill. voltages are nearly stock across the board, and its fully stable. love the 1333 bus, lots more headroom, without stressing the board

the only noticeable change with the june beta bios is the addition of Post IDE delay time (defaulted to 1 sec) to allow the post screen to be seen before it has moved on to the next screen...as far as i can tell, no improvement in board speed with the june beta bios.

[Nelly]

the only noticeable change with the june beta bios is the addition of Post IDE delay time (defaulted to 1 sec) to allow the post screen to be seen before it has moved on to the next screen...as far as i can tell, no improvement in board speed with the june beta bios.

Can someone send me a link to this so called june bios? I'll ask someone to look at this bios along with the first release bios available on the Abit website.

Abit e-mailed me stating that no beta bios has been made for this board as yet so I'm guessing someones trying to be clevor posting bull****, I've put in a request for 1T Command Rate, if you find any bugs or anything that needs to be included within a beta/new bios use this:- http://www.abit.com.tw/page/en/contact/technical.php

[shawn1998]

The beta June bios also changes the sata boot rom for the JMicron onboard sata controller.

[xTr33m sammich!]

Ace-a-Rue
Windows XP and PCMark 2005 interprets the speed of the processor incorrectly even though CPUz does see it right

This is my 4th 775 board, out of them all, Asus 975x, DFI 680I LT, DFI P965-S, and this one, they have all had the same issue save one, the 680I LT.

as far as this board is concerned, BIOS may or may not fix the performance issue, I sure as $|-|1+ hope they add a 1T option, other than that it has been a pleasure to work with it, very stable overclocked, the only board out of the lot I've used able to run past 500FSB with my 6400, and it is fast as far as Im concerned it's a winner. As far as that link you're posting for harping on ABIT, is there a link that would work for the states? Closest thing I could find is this link.
Or should I go ahead and use the global link and say I'm from south Africa...

[DEVIL K-ce]

My 2 cent's after some day's with IP35 and IP 35-E + dual stage cascade

This board's and some freez ? No way : on this weekend in Poland we have some oc party and I have this ABIT's board's and some other hardware and we are able to try nice clock's on this mobo's.

First put under cascade IP35 and no boot at - 105C After some probs still no boot.

So next is IP35-E under cascade and it's works But only 10 minutes with - 102C and not more work.

Back in the home, put mobo to table, mount water cooling and IP35 + IP35-E work's ok

So ... maybe Pro model is good for sub zero, but not IP35 and -E


And double restart grr.


Regards

Martin

[MichelinGuy]

i dont believe this ty hadrware info review....reliable my ass.

all i see are board specs. where did those perf charts come from?

i'd trust TH over these mystery hardware.info tests anyday, but please give us more info.

Well, Hardware.info you can really trust. It isn't only a website, it's a magazine and that makes quite a difference. These results will come in the Hardware.info magazine. There are different rules between websites and magazines. If you place bull in a magazine you're in big trouble cause then Abit or any other brand can sue you, with a website not.

But I agree that a bios update can solve the problem.

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