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

[Ace-a-Rue]

i am having a problem (the only problem) with the difference between overall performance of this board and my previous QuadGT...my QGT was at 390 FSB@9X = 3510 Mhz...i ran PCMark 2005 again on the IP35 Pro with the exact same hardware and almost the exact same frequency, 3500 Mhz (500 FSB@7X).

adjusting memory timing has very little influence on the final score for PCMark.

i am doing better in memory bandwidth than the QGT but that is not correlating into an equal or better PCMark 2005 bench score...so...it tells me that the bios is need of MAJOR tweaking in the performance category...OR...Intel's chipset specs has higher latencies to allow for higher FSB but in turn, that does lower the overall performance output of the board.

Tom's Hardware did a review on all the P35 boards and Abit's version was mid-pack to lower bottom on most tests run!...need to tweak the bios to bring that up.

here are my results with PCMark 2005...1st one is the IP35 Pro (@3500 Mhz) and 2nd is the QuadGT (@3510 Mhz)...the QuadGT beats the IP35 Pro by 600 points in overall performance...significant to me!