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

[strange|ife]

Is the beta bios supposed to give better OC?

it has for some with certain memories.

I honestly havent seen a lick of diffrence between beta 14 and 16, beta 16 wasnt stable for me though. So stuck with 14 for now, till 16 is final.

[deathman20]

My E8400 comes in tonight so hopfully I'll beable to play with this a bit. Going to try the B16 04 drivers tonight, as long as I got some time to do it.

[tripleflip18]

Hi guys, My first post in this Thread. As i just build New system with P35Pro

I got E8400 Q740A523 Pack Date 12/27/07
Now just so you know i have a kick ass water cooling 120.3 so cooling is decent.
My best not 100% Stable OC was 456x9 which is about 4100mhz at 1.48 Volts in CPUZ after all the Vdroops. So i aint too happy. Yes i did check FSB Wall, which did get to at least 490(i didn't take it higher) and Memory also checked, it can do 1100 with 2.1

So now the question is. Do i have a crappy CPU? I was hoping for 4.5 I've tried raising all the voltages 1 by one and nothing seems to help other then Raising CPU Vcore. Any suggestions?

also I have bios 14 and TEMPS for The CPU are not showing, can anyone confirm that the Beta bios shows temps properly. My temps jump form 5-8c all the way to 127c, so i can't really tell how hot CPU is.

Can you people with E8400 and this Mobo post your settings in bios. And i did read through all 80 pages last night so i have an idea but there are no reports yet with this mobo and CPU. Thanks!

[Budwise]

well, i woke up again this morning to my board not wanting to boot with 4X1Gb. No amount of voltage changing helped. I am however still on bios 14 (latest official), would this be a possible reason for it being fussy with 4Gb? Would 16 beta help?

[derektm]

well, i woke up again this morning to my board not wanting to boot with 4X1Gb. No amount of voltage changing helped. I am however still on bios 14 (latest official), would this be a possible reason for it being fussy with 4Gb? Would 16 beta help?

RMA your board maybe.

[Budwise]

well, just did some more testing. I loaded up 16B3 and still the memory wouldnt work. So i did some swapping back and forth. With one of my 2X1Gb kits the computer wont post. With the other it does. Guess it must be the memory after all. After redialing my OC i accidentally ended up booting into windows with this

I put it back very quickly though, but i was just surprised that these Ballistix would do that speed at default voltage and timings.

[Jaminus]

Anybody have any luck getting a decent OC with Wolfdale and IP35-Pro? On ABIT forums, some users say the 1.4 BIOS has lots of problems running 45nm chips and doesn't report temps properly either.

tripleflip, if you need that much VCore to break 4ghz with E8400, i have to assume either you have a really really bad chip or there is something wrong with your mobo, settings, cooling, etc

[tjh566]

Well my experiences with this board and the 8400 have had a few quirks.

First off the temps dont read right in core temp or anything

Uguru overclocking panel reads incorrect voltages to set

I have to set the voltage in bios WAY high to get the desired voltage (ie. 1.51v for 1.44v actual, measured Via. DMM and CPUz

So we really need a BIOS update and a uguru update.

[scorpion]

try the beta 16.B04 bios

[tripleflip18]

Yeah Like I said Im not too happy. At the moment Im running everything Stock and system freezes randomly. It will run orthos for 2 hours i stop orthos and go about business, it will freeze randomly, then everything stock i had hard time getting into windows, would freeze as soon as i'd log in. I've Changed PCIE from 1.0a to 1.0 and havn't had such a crash yet, maybe that was holding my OC back. Finishing installing software then i'll do Bios update and report back with hopefully more successfull story. Can you guys suggest any settings that i should be trying?

thanks

[tjh566]

try the beta 16.B04 bios

Thats what im using.


As for overclocking thats going ok, I got 4.32ghz stable@1.44v, 4.5 ghz@1.55v-stable and 4.64ghz@1.61v-not too stable tho.

It boots at 5ghz and starts to load windows but hangs. tried all the way to 1.71v, still nothing, maxxed all voltages on the board and 2.45v on the ram with loose timings, wont do it.

[scorpion]

your wright we do need a bios update.keep us udated with the 8400,iam thinking of buying one.

[steve30x]

I hope one of you guys can help me here. I got an IP35 Pro and a Q6600. now I Have 3 different programs that can take temps. I had Core temp running at first but I was getting weird temperature readings. On core temp its reading 2 cores as 36 celcius and two at 42 celcius. So I tried everest and I got the same reading. So I then ran Speedfan and its reading all cores at 21 celcius.

Ive tried Bios 16 B04 , 16 B03 and im now on biow 14 again. So is there something wrong with the temperature readings or is my CPU running hot. Also I am using wattercooling on my CPU and I am only at 3ghz oc with the cpu at 1.4v.

[Ron 61]

Bios 16B04 and 16B03 are both off on vcore and cpu vtt with my E8400. With 1.35v selected in bios uguru shows 1.25v, DMM shows 1.28v. I get about .1v less shown by uguru than what I select in bios. Cpu vtt seems to be the same way so the current bios for this board does not properly support Wolfdale overclocking.

[scorpion]

i like beta 16.B03 Bios it seems be the best bios for the Q6600, my temps run31 30 32 33 if this helps.

[tripleflip18]

Thats what im using.


As for overclocking thats going ok, I got 4.32ghz stable@1.44v, 4.5 ghz@1.55v-stable and 4.64ghz@1.61v-not too stable tho.

It boots at 5ghz and starts to load windows but hangs. tried all the way to 1.71v, still nothing, maxxed all voltages on the board and 2.45v on the ram with loose timings, wont do it.

Can you post your other settings in bios? Vtt , ICH etc...

thx

[aoch88]

I dont think Bios 14 supports wolfdale?

[Ace-a-Rue]

Hi guys, My first post in this Thread. As i just build New system with P35Pro

I got E8400 Q740A523 Pack Date 12/27/07
Now just so you know i have a kick ass water cooling 120.3 so cooling is decent.
My best not 100% Stable OC was 456x9 which is about 4100mhz at 1.48 Volts in CPUZ after all the Vdroops. So i aint too happy. Yes i did check FSB Wall, which did get to at least 490(i didn't take it higher) and Memory also checked, it can do 1100 with 2.1

So now the question is. Do i have a crappy CPU? I was hoping for 4.5 I've tried raising all the voltages 1 by one and nothing seems to help other then Raising CPU Vcore. Any suggestions?

also I have bios 14 and TEMPS for The CPU are not showing, can anyone confirm that the Beta bios shows temps properly. My temps jump form 5-8c all the way to 127c, so i can't really tell how hot CPU is.

Can you people with E8400 and this Mobo post your settings in bios. And i did read through all 80 pages last night so i have an idea but there are no reports yet with this mobo and CPU. Thanks!

abandon the 14 bios...it was not designed for the wolfdale or penryn...16.b04 is the only beta bios that MIGHT guarantee you help.

what is your VID for that particular cpu?

[Ace-a-Rue]

well, i woke up again this morning to my board not wanting to boot with 4X1Gb. No amount of voltage changing helped. I am however still on bios 14 (latest official), would this be a possible reason for it being fussy with 4Gb? Would 16 beta help?

memory will do better with beta 16.b03 as long as you are using a 65nm processor.

[Ace-a-Rue]

Yeah Like I said Im not too happy. At the moment Im running everything Stock and system freezes randomly. It will run orthos for 2 hours i stop orthos and go about business, it will freeze randomly, then everything stock i had hard time getting into windows, would freeze as soon as i'd log in. I've Changed PCIE from 1.0a to 1.0 and havn't had such a crash yet, maybe that was holding my OC back. Finishing installing software then i'll do Bios update and report back with hopefully more successfull story. Can you guys suggest any settings that i should be trying?

thanks

where is your memory timings at?

use 16.b03 beta bios....it does better with memory.

[Ace-a-Rue]

Thats what im using.


As for overclocking thats going ok, I got 4.32ghz stable@1.44v, 4.5 ghz@1.55v-stable and 4.64ghz@1.61v-not too stable tho.

It boots at 5ghz and starts to load windows but hangs. tried all the way to 1.71v, still nothing, maxxed all voltages on the board and 2.45v on the ram with loose timings, wont do it.

give us your specs in your signature so we ALL know what processor and so forth.

GUYS!...you whine about this board not doing this or that, but, you fail to spell out your hardware specs in your signature.

when you tell us your voltages like above (which is very good) but do not spell out your complete hardware scenario, there is not a thing anyone can do for you.

[tripleflip18]

Alright Ace-a-Rue, updated my sig, updated Bios. First tried in windows and Comp froze and programming DMI 25% I was like Fu**!! waited 5 min hoping it would finish, had to reset the comp and to my surprise it worked like nothing happened. So then i had to learn how to flash in USB. Did it and now im on 16.04 and OC is exactly same. I have not gotten it to 4.35 but that was with 1.55volts in cpuz. Ok now i have a few questions about this Motherboard
Temprature PWM, ON load it gets all the way to 55c. I put a fan on it and its at 48c. Is that still too high and could that be whats cousing low OC?

How come Power saving feature don't work in this motherboard? When Idle Multiplier doesn't drop to 6 and neither does voltage. I've just built 2 other systems and it works on both of those. I'd like to save energy as my comp is probably 50% Idling/browsing.

How hot can i push Penryn for no damage to happen?

Any More tips to get this CPU to 4.5 without crazy Volts to cpu?

thanks. I wanna hear other people with E8400 and this motherboard, share your results/settings please!

[jnky_boy]

well, just did some more testing. I loaded up 16B3 and still the memory wouldnt work. So i did some swapping back and forth. With one of my 2X1Gb kits the computer wont post. With the other it does. Guess it must be the memory after all. After redialing my OC i accidentally ended up booting into windows with this

I put it back very quickly though, but i was just surprised that these Ballistix would do that speed at default voltage and timings.

Bud, your ram had probably burned. Yesterday, after my first post here i read somewhere that overvolted Ballistix just fail after a couple of months usage. Bud, can you tell us what was the voltage on the DIMM's?

[SkySurfer]

Bios 16B04 and 16B03 are both off on vcore and cpu vtt with my E8400. With 1.35v selected in bios uguru shows 1.25v, DMM shows 1.28v. I get about .1v less shown by uguru than what I select in bios. Cpu vtt seems to be the same way so the current bios for this board does not properly support Wolfdale overclocking.

Same problems here. vCore and VTT are way lower than the settings from BIOS. VCore drops 0.7volts and VTT 0.2!

I have the latest beta bios.

[Budwise]

Bud, your ram had probably burned. Yesterday, after my first post here i read somewhere that overvolted Ballistix just fail after a couple of months usage. Bud, can you tell us what was the voltage on the DIMM's?

never used more than rated 2.2v...