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

[nemesisrobot]

Anyone happen to have a pic of this w/ a HR Ultra-120?

[expreview]

How to find the lastest BIOS?i saw my friend have 06/06 BIOS

[Envydia007]

I'm very impressed with this board right now and its pricing is way cheaper than the P5K Deluxe.
Now these P35s are what I call 500FSB guaranteed.
Thanks for the results guys.

[Envydia007]

4GHz (444 X 9) on water for 24/7 with this , possible?

[Envydia007]

[sofarfrome]

4GHz (444 X 9) on water for 24/7 with this , possible?

As long as the CPU can do it and the temps are not ridiculous I believe it is possible.

[doom_st]

4GHz (444 X 9) on water for 24/7 with this , possible?

yes with cherry picked cpu and at least chiller for cooling

[logigamer]

No can do, cant get the bugger to boot. I think it doesnt like my kingston value ram, no beeps, just restarts once and then nothing other than spinning fans. If someone can point me in the direction of some memory that definitely works it'd be appreciated .


Ignore me, I see theres a list at the start of the thread..doh!

still nothing?

[derektm]

i unpacked this board looking at it today at the store. The NB is crazy tilted at an angle off the die. its pretty weird, i wonder how much of a effect it would have. i would imagine prretty poor temps in that condition. Will be replacing stock cooling though for some active.

pickin this puppy up tommrow, better be all its cracked up to be. at this point, as long as the thing boots, sees my SATA drives, and runs i'll be happy.

I posted about this earlier in the thread. You can fix it by taking the heatpipes off the board and by trial and error bending them until they lay flat. It will take you some time.

Since it is tilted, the contact starts in the middle and it gets less and less as you move toward the edge.

[Hazzan]

@expreview : where you see 06/06 BIOS ?

[derektm]

@expreview : where you see 06/06 BIOS ?

http://ocxtreme.org/forumenus/showthread.php?t=1045

Direct Link

[expreview]

http://ocxtreme.org/forumenus/showthread.php?t=1045

Direct Link

thank you , hicookie just send it for me.

[Xilikon]

I've read the whole thread and I didn't find any clear confirmation so here's my question :

How is the IP35-E overclocking features ? How is the SATA ports ?

I'm planning to get this model for my file server to house my E4300 when I buy a Q6600 to replace it on my main PC. I don't need a board with plenty of fluff, only something reliable with enough overclocking options to push the E4300 to the same ballpark as currently with my BX2.

[Pepsiennis]

Did you have any trouble fitting the Tuniq on that board? Is the NB sink too high?

I've got a Tuniq on the IP35 Pro and the Tuniq's fan bracket comes close to the raised edge of the NB heatsink, the edge towards the back panel, but they never touch and there is a small gap where air can flow between. It's more clearance than a Tuniq on a Striker Extreme, for example, which was just about sitting on the excessively-tall heatpipes. Awesome board and a Tuniq works great on it.

[davvy76]

still nothing?

No joy, dead as a dodo, just waiting for scan to acknowledge that so it can go back.

[Ace-a-Rue]

I've read the whole thread and I didn't find any clear confirmation so here's my question :

How is the IP35-E overclocking features ? How is the SATA ports ?

I'm planning to get this model for my file server to house my E4300 when I buy a Q6600 to replace it on my main PC. I don't need a board with plenty of fluff, only something reliable with enough overclocking options to push the E4300 to the same ballpark as currently with my BX2.

overclocks very good and has no sata problems, at least on the intel chipset side....i am going to put an IDE DVD drive on the Jmicron controller to see if it will conflict with my sata DVD drive on the intel sata port..will let you know.

the only thing that i am not overly impressed with is actual performance compared to its brothen AB9 QuadGT...i ran a PCMark 2005 on the QuadGT and a run on the IP35 Pro...the QuadGT beat out the IP35 Pro by 1000+ points...all the hardware is the same...only difference is the motherboard.

[Xilikon]

overclocks very good and has no sata problems, at least on the intel chipset side....i am going to put an IDE DVD drive on the Jmicron controller to see if it will conflict with my sata DVD drive on the intel sata port..will let you know.

the only thing that i am not overly impressed with is actual performance compared to its brothen AB9 QuadGT...i ran a PCMark 2005 on the QuadGT and a run on the IP35 Pro...the QuadGT beat out the IP35 Pro by 1000+ points...all the hardware is the same...only difference is the motherboard.

Is that on the IP35-E as asked or the IP35 Pro like your sig ?

[Ace-a-Rue]

sorry...i did not catch your model deviation...my board is the Pro model

[redphil]

thg has a p35 comparison review, where the abit board is tested, but imho it's not helpfull at all.
http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/06/...red/index.html

[renethx]

Has anybody noticed that the dual Gb LAN RTL8110SC/RTL8110SC is on the PCI bus? The following NTttcp ethernet throughput test shows that RTL8110SC is 35% to 40% slower than a PCI Express Gb LAN such as Marvell 88E8056 or Realtek RTL8111B:



with higher CPU usage:



Source: PROHARDVER! - Alaplapok Core 2 Duo ala - 2. resz - Nyomtatobarat verzio (January 2, 2007). Typos in these charts:

• "Asus P5B Dlx (Marvell 88E8801)" should be "Asus P5B Dlx (Marvell 88E8001)". 88E8001 is a PCI Gb LAN.
• "ECS PX1 (RTL 8139)" should be "ECS PX1 (RTL8110S)". RTL8110S is a PCI Gb LAN, a variant of RTL8110SC.

Another NTttcp test shows a similar result: ComputerBase - Test: Asus P5K Deluxe WiFi Edition (May 21, 2007)

Another test in The Tech Report - Intel's P35 Express chipset (May 21, 2007) also shows that the PCI Gb LAN 88E8001 is much slower than other PCI Express Gb LANs, though it does not include RTL8110SC.

Abit uses this crappy PCI Gb LAN solution in AB9 QuadGT too. There are only 6 PCI Express lanes in the southbridge. In these motherboards, the lanes are assigned as follows:

• 4: PCI Express x16 slot at x4
• 1: PCI Express x1 slot
• 1: IDE controller

while in ASUS P5B/P5K series motherboards with two PCI Express x16 slots,

• 4: shared by the PCI Express x16 slot at x4 and the PCI Express x1 slot (x4 is automatically slowed down to x2 when x1 is used)
• 1: IDE controller
• 1: PCI Express Gb LAN

[Goone]

I am getting this board soon, can someone post the bios setting for the board?
Thanks

[derektm]

Has anybody noticed that the dual Gb LAN RTL8110SC/RTL8110SC is on the PCI bus? The following NTttcp ethernet throughput test shows that RTL8110SC is 35% to 40% slower than a PCI Express Gb LAN such as Marvell 88E8056 or Realtek RTL8111B:



with higher CPU usage:



Source: PROHARDVER! - Alaplapok Core 2 Duo ala - 2. resz - Nyomtatobarat verzio (January 2, 2007). Typos in these charts:

• "Asus P5B Dlx (Marvell 88E8801)" should be "Asus P5B Dlx (Marvell 88E8001)". 88E8001 is a PCI Gb LAN.
• "ECS PX1 (RTL 8139)" should be "ECS PX1 (RTL8110S)". RTL8110S is a PCI Gb LAN, a variant of RTL8110SC.

Another NTttcp test shows a similar result: ComputerBase - Test: Asus P5K Deluxe WiFi Edition (May 21, 2007)

Another test in The Tech Report - Intel's P35 Express chipset (May 21, 2007) also shows that the PCI Gb LAN 88E8001 is much slower than other PCI Express Gb LANs, though it does not include RTL8110SC.

Abit uses this crappy PCI Gb LAN solution in AB9 QuadGT too. There are only 6 PCI Express lanes in the southbridge. In these motherboards, the lanes are assigned as follows:

• 4: PCI Express x16 slot at x4
• 1: PCI Express x1 slot
• 1: IDE controller

while in ASUS P5B/P5K series motherboards with two PCI Express x16 slots,

• 4: shared by the PCI Express x16 slot at x4 and the PCI Express x1 slot (x4 is automatically slowed down to x2 when x1 is used)
• 1: IDE controller
• 1: PCI Express Gb LAN

If you want something better than onboard lan just buy an intel pci-e x1 card. It will be better than any onboard lan anyways. I haven't had any problems with these PCI realtek chips while I have had problems with PCI-E Marvell chips before.

[Xilikon]

If you want something better than onboard lan just buy an intel pci-e x1 card. It will be better than any onboard lan anyways. I haven't had any problems with these PCI realtek chips while I have had problems with PCI-E Marvell chips before.

Yes, I agree... Myself, I always use 3COM or Intel cards with all my computers excepted the BadAxe2, which already come with a excellent Intel Pro 1000 onboard NIC.

[Charles Wirth]

Stock volts across the board, this is the pro board with stock E4320 alu heatsink with stock TIM that comes in the retail box.

http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc?id=209704

400x8

I plan on a beefy heatsink but this is what the stock can do and what to expect out of the box.

I need to tighten up the memory, these are the new PDP 4GB Kit modules.

[MADMAX22]

Well got mine up and running. Killed the first setup of vista that I transfered from my 965 setup playing with the ram speeds, borked it up good.

Anyways got it to 540fsb with my 6600. 6multi or voltages would not change this which is the same wall I got on my dfi 965-s. I think its the cpu wall but I am not sure. Probably is, anyways uses less volts for the oc's compared to 965 boards.

The pi time is bad jsut there for reference i guess.

One thing is the pwm cooler was barely touching half of the pwm's but covered the nb good. Took it off anyways and cut up a aluminum hdd cooler and put that on the pwm's they stay pretty cool havnt scene them above 50c I think.