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

[Ace-a-Rue]

I have both.

Why?

curious on why you were quoting cpuz voltage values...i find it unreliable except for the beta 1.4.09...besides, you have Uguru on the Pro board which gives an accurate vcore reading.

[Knight]

Ace, did you ever have to press 'ctrl I' to set up your raid volume? There is no mention of this in the manual.

[bfox2]

I did when I first installed vista. I had to add the drives to the volume that I wanted.

[Tarowah]

Hey just wanted to let you guys know the vdroop mod went off without a hitch and my vdroop was down to .02v from .09v, notice I said was......


I was in the process of installing the board and my case slid off of my table, I grabbed for it and missed, but I did manage to grab the wires that I soldered onto the board, not only did it rip the wires off, trace under the IC came with it so the board is dead as a doornail.


I took the board to a buddy of mine that builds AC control boards thinking he might be able to fix it because he has saved me from stupid mistakes in the past, but this time I managed to break it really well.


I have my system up and running on my AB9 non pro so at least I had a backup board, I'll be in the corner banging my head on a solid object for a bit.

[ishamael56]

I got an IP-35 pro a few days ago and have been running this overclock

I've tried 3.8 Gh, but even with a increase in all voltages and ram timings relaxed to 6 6 6 15 from 5 5 5 12, after about 3 minutes of Orthos i get a blue screen. I think my quad has more left in it due to the temps, but I can't seem to get any higher. Do you guys have any advice on what voltages to play with or anything else. I'm still on the stock bios, and never flashed one before, so I'm a bit scared of doing that but do you think that a newer bios would help?

thanks

[Alik4041]

I was in the process of installing the board and my case slid off of my table, I grabbed for it and missed, but I did manage to grab the wires that I soldered onto the board, not only did it rip the wires off, trace under the IC came with it so the board is dead as a doornail.

[Master of None]

I got an IP-35 pro a few days ago and have been running this overclock

I've tried 3.8 Gh, but even with a increase in all voltages and ram timings relaxed to 6 6 6 15 from 5 5 5 12, after about 3 minutes of Orthos i get a blue screen. I think my quad has more left in it due to the temps, but I can't seem to get any higher. Do you guys have any advice on what voltages to play with or anything else. I'm still on the stock bios, and never flashed one before, so I'm a bit scared of doing that but do you think that a newer bios would help?

thanks

You need to deal with the PWM temp, its running 93C with 100C Max and normally it is a Max of 80C, at least with BIOS versions 11.BIN, 12.B01, and 12.B02.

[Alik4041]

Ace, I was looking at the heatpipe mod and I want to greatly thank you for taking your time to post it I was wondering if you can tell me exactly what you bought (shopping list would be nice lol). Also, I don't think you mentioned the temp difference of before and after the mod. Thanks again man.

[Master of None]

Hey just wanted to let you guys know the vdroop mod went off without a hitch and my vdroop was down to .02v from .09v, notice I said was......


I was in the process of installing the board and my case slid off of my table, I grabbed for it and missed, but I did manage to grab the wires that I soldered onto the board, not only did it rip the wires off, trace under the IC came with it so the board is dead as a doornail.


I took the board to a buddy of mine that builds AC control boards thinking he might be able to fix it because he has saved me from stupid mistakes in the past, but this time I managed to break it really well.


I have my system up and running on my AB9 non pro so at least I had a backup board, I'll be in the corner banging my head on a solid object for a bit.

Look on the bright side, your solder job was real solid.

[ishamael56]

You need to deal with the PWM temp, its running 93C with 100C Max and normally it is a Max of 80C, at least with BIOS versions 11.BIN, 12.B01, and 12.B02.

I guess I need to do the heatpipe mod then, because this is with a 90mm fan sitting on my vid card pointing at the heatsink. Without that when I first ran orthos it got to 115 C before I realized and shut it down.

[Alik4041]

I got an IP-35 pro a few days ago and have been running this overclock

I've tried 3.8 Gh, but even with a increase in all voltages and ram timings relaxed to 6 6 6 15 from 5 5 5 12, after about 3 minutes of Orthos i get a blue screen. I think my quad has more left in it due to the temps, but I can't seem to get any higher. Do you guys have any advice on what voltages to play with or anything else. I'm still on the stock bios, and never flashed one before, so I'm a bit scared of doing that but do you think that a newer bios would help?

thanks

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[Tarowah]

LoL yeah at least something went right with the whole deal, I told my wife about it and she said "why dont you leave it alone if it isnt broken?, got a stare for a second and she said never mind, that was a stupid question".

[Alik4041]

LoL yeah at least something went right with the whole deal, I told my wife about it and she said "why dont you leave it alone if it isnt broken?, got a stare for a second and she said never mind, that was a stupid question".

...I can imagine that stare...seen it too often. BTW, the "if it ain't broken, don't fix it quote doesn't apply to this forum

[bfox2]

if it aint broken, fix it till it is...

[Alik4041]

if it aint broken, fix it till it is...

It's the only way to learn

ACE! I'm waiting on you lol

[Soulburner]

I'm wondering how you got a PWM temp even remotely close to that high.

Granted I haven't fired up my IP35 Pro yet, but my IP35 PWM is running at 53c full load with the only mod being AC MX-1 replacing the stock thermal pad. I can't tell how effective it was - I never did a before/after test because I didn't want to take the thing apart to get back to the PWM again.

Is the Pro really that much hotter?

I also edited my previous post - 1.350 vcore in BIOS gets me 1.288v in CPU-Z. Abit EQ is the same but it rounds to 1.29v.

[Alik4041]

It's not that it's hotter, but it's just that abit failed to make sure the MOSFET HS was making good contact with the PWM. This will explain it much better, look at the last picture in the first post. Quite disturbing IMO.
http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.p...20#post5195620

[Soulburner]

Yeah I removed that pad before I even started on the IP35. It was a white pad though, not sure why that one is black?

It made even contact however I replaced it with AC MX-1 on each chip. It seems to make solid contact and is tight even though I am still using the original pins and despite the paste being much thinner than the pad. PWM temps maxed out at 53c in my testing today, maybe a few degrees hotter on a hot day but nothing near the 90+ degrees that I am seeing on here.

Again this is with a modest overclock, E6550 (2.33Ghz chip) @ 458x7 for 3.2Ghz at 1.3v.

I will have to take a close look at the Pro board as well when I get that system together, which is my 2nd project.

IP35 / E6550
IP35 Pro / E6850

On a side note, you just have to love the effortless overclocking on these chips...my 3700+ San Diego really didn't like me and was so touchy to the smallest increases. This little E6550 is taking a near 1Ghz overclock without a single bump in voltage and loving it. Its even stable with EIST and C1E enabled and doesn't crash when the volts come down at idle. It's so easy it feels wrong in a way...

[Alik4041]

It's so easy it feels wrong in a way...

It sounds like your talking about taking advantage of a drunk

[Retro]

I have fairly good PWM temp w/ stock cooler+40mm fan (<60c after 1 hour prime stress test, idle ~35c)
Also
I don't think HR-09 (either U or S) will fit (it's too narrow to cover all the chips)

Looks like good temps on the pwm with the heatpipe sawed-off the stock cooler.
I have some copper ramsinks on order from Xoxide which I will try first though.
None of the HR-09 series will fit an IP-35 Pro, mounted either way. I e-mailed Thermalright and asked if any of the HR-09's could be adapted to fit an IP-35 Pro and if not, were they planning on making one that would fit. I got a fast, but useless reply:
"HR-09 doesn't support IP-35 Pro. Thx for your interest in Thermalright products."
I think they may eventually make one to fit the IP-35 Pro, but who knows for sure

[cLOUDFAn]

are you on water or air?
if air then your vcore is a little bit too high imo
you need to tweak other vol settings besides vcore (you can't have vcore >1.5v while all other vols are at default)

I got an IP-35 pro a few days ago and have been running this overclock

I've tried 3.8 Gh, but even with a increase in all voltages and ram timings relaxed to 6 6 6 15 from 5 5 5 12, after about 3 minutes of Orthos i get a blue screen. I think my quad has more left in it due to the temps, but I can't seem to get any higher. Do you guys have any advice on what voltages to play with or anything else. I'm still on the stock bios, and never flashed one before, so I'm a bit scared of doing that but do you think that a newer bios would help?

thanks

[cLOUDFAn]

As IP35 Pro is becoming more popular, I am sure TR will do something about it.
Another note on the "chopped off" PWM cooler
I tried AS5 instead of stock thermal pad
temps are similar
but I was worried that the AS5 layer wasn't thick enought to make good contact w/ all the chips
so I eventually go back to the stock thermal pad (maybe will replace it later when the push pins and pad wear out a little)

Looks like good temps on the pwm with the heatpipe sawed-off the stock cooler.
I have some copper ramsinks on order from Xoxide which I will try first though.
None of the HR-09 series will fit an IP-35 Pro, mounted either way. I e-mailed Thermalright and asked if any of the HR-09's could be adapted to fit an IP-35 Pro and if not, were they planning on making one that would fit. I got a fast, but useless reply:
"HR-09 doesn't support IP-35 Pro. Thx for your interest in Thermalright products."
I think they may eventually make one to fit the IP-35 Pro, but who knows for sure

[scwam]

I'm wondering how you got a PWM temp even remotely close to that high.

Granted I haven't fired up my IP35 Pro yet, but my IP35 PWM is running at 53c full load with the only mod being AC MX-1 replacing the stock thermal pad. I can't tell how effective it was - I never did a before/after test because I didn't want to take the thing apart to get back to the PWM again.

Is the Pro really that much hotter?

I also edited my previous post - 1.350 vcore in BIOS gets me 1.288v in CPU-Z. Abit EQ is the same but it rounds to 1.29v.

Every board I've use (Epox 9npa, DFI NF4 and the IP35 mid level) have all showed high PWM temps easily above 80c on dual burns, some higher than 100c. Unless you keep your room at 70F and the vcore at stock you'll too problably get +80c on a dual burn.

[zerazax]

Can someone tell me how the IP-35 Pro does with 4GB of RAM now? Did they fix the previous issues with it?

[Alik4041]

Can someone tell me how the IP-35 Pro does with 4GB of RAM now? Did they fix the previous issues with it?

I assume you mean 4X1GB. I second that question. My motherboard/cpu should be arriving by Friday. Can't wait