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

[sofarfrome]

Anybody know where I can buy a bios chip to test the new bios?.... I really dont want to risk losing the bios I have now.....

If you search around on abit forums you will find a place to order them, from Abit I believe. If not try biosmedic.com

[derektm]

B's run hot but mine don't run that hot. I have 2 E6600s (L629B and L631B) and idle temps under air for the 629B at 1.44vcore is about 41C and the 631B at 1.44vcore is 34C. You may have something else going on with your 6700. My 629B is lapped, 631B unlapped.

Contact is pretty good as far as I could tell. Tried it with AS5 and Ceramique, same temps. Maybe the temp sensors are borked inside the chip? I pulled it from a dell machine. Ran 60c idle in that dell

[OV3RCLOCK3R]

Just sold my Asus P5B-Deluxe and ordered the Abit IP35 PRO \o/

[furballi]

You think your temps are bad. I get 50C idle with my L629B E6700 at 3.33 GHz 1.29 vcore. 70C load. Thats with a Tuniq Tower 120 too.

E4300 here @ 3.44GHz with 1.465Vcore and Big Typhoon. Idle/Orthos Large mode per Speedfan in 82F room: 30C/66C. Idle/Orthos Large mode per CoreTemp 0.95 in 82F room: 45C/81C. CoreTemp shows 100C TJunction for this chip. If there is poor contact between the chip and the heat spreader, then my idle temperature should also be higher than the 30 to 45C range.

The maximum temperature as reported by CoreTemp appears to be elevated by 15C. Perhaps that's why CoreTemp shows 100C TJunction, instead of 85C TJunction for many E6xxx CPUs.

Same rig with an E6320 @ 3.4GHz/1.51Vcore yields 54C Orthos as reported by CoreTemp (85C TJunction). With this chip, I can raise Vcore from 1.41 to 1.51, and the maximum temperature under Orthos will only go up by 5C.

Bumping Vcore has a more dramatic effect with the E4300. 1.365Vcore to 1.465Vcore will raise Orthos load temperature form 68C to 82C!

[ibby]

Could some one have a look at the BIOS chip on the abit ip-35 board and
PM me with the numbers and letters on it

thanks

anyone..

[derektm]

anyone..

I can just tell you what Abit Flashmenu says:

SST 49LF008A /3.3V

Does that help?

[ibby]

I can just tell you what Abit Flashmenu says:

SST 49LF008A /3.3V

Does that help?

would perfer the part numbers off the chip.


49LF008A > 8mbit firmware with bootlock flashs at 3.3v.
but would like confirmation of it from the chip itsself

thanks buddy!

[derektm]

would perfer the part numbers off the chip.


49LF008A > 8mbit firmware with bootlock flashs at 3.3v.
but would like confirmation of it from the chip itsself

thanks buddy!

Flashmenu reads the part information from the chip. I don't know if anyone is going to peel the sticker off their chip.

[PJD]

Ok I got my IP35 Pro mobo up and running. I have one of the DD Torture Racks and it took maybe 10 minutes to set this board up. Using straight gear with no additional fans I got it up to 3.2 on air. Stock voltages. I'll be adding WC in the coming weeks once I get all my case fans in (10 in all). I think I might be able to hit 3.8 with WC. The temps I get now are 31C idle, 43C under extreme duress (Orthos, Prime, and Burnin running). The strap is set at 1:1.25 with an FSB of 400. I haven't noticed any droop (okay, mem voltage went from 2.00 to 1.98). That's it. I'll post images of Orthos, Prime, and Everest. BTW, the version of Everest I have (licensed) doesn't support the Bearlake series and sometimes indicates invalid CPU temps (sometimes 256C and sometimes 10C).

[PJD]

FYI....I'm somewhat dissapointed in the C2D compared to my "aging" AN832X 939 mobo with an AMD 4400 X2 (non AM2). 3DMark06 showed only a 1000 point increase. That's a new build versus a year old XP install. I expected better for some reason. At 3.2, I hit 10106 on 3DMark06. I need to add a sig so this will have to due for now:

Abit IP35 Pro
e6420
2 X 1GB Dominator (2.00 volts - 400 FSB - 1:1.25 strap)
eVga 8800 GTS OC 640MB
Antec HE 550

[furballi]

B's run hot but mine don't run that hot. I have 2 E6600s (L629B and L631B) and idle temps under air for the 629B at 1.44vcore is about 41C and the 631B at 1.44vcore is 34C. You may have something else going on with your 6700. My 629B is lapped, 631B unlapped.

E6320 and IP35-E Overclock

Managed to overclock an E6320 to 3.415GHz (488MHz FSB x 7 multi) with 1.51Vcore. NB, SB, and VTT were bumped up one notch to 1.29, 1.55, and 1.2375 respectively. Memory divider @ 1:1 with 5-4-4-9-2T timing.

Speedfan and CoreTemp 0.95 report 53C under Orthos Large mode (75F ambient). S&M shows 68C with 85C TJunction. The same program reports 100C TJunction on my E4300, which could explain why I'm seeing +14C under load with the 4300. 1M Super Pi time of 14.860 seconds. CPU will boot into Windows at 495MHz FSB x 6 multi, but it is not stable at this level of overclock. I suspect +500MHz FSB is possible with a better chip. My sample appears to have a 495MHz FSB wall.

[Ace-a-Rue]

FYI....I'm somewhat dissapointed in the C2D compared to my "aging" AN832X 939 mobo with an AMD 4400 X2 (non AM2). 3DMark06 showed only a 1000 point increase. That's a new build versus a year old XP install. I expected better for some reason. At 3.2, I hit 10106 on 3DMark06. I need to add a sig so this will have to due for now:

Abit IP35 Pro
e6420
2 X 1GB Dominator (2.00 volts - 400 FSB - 1:1.25 strap)
eVga 8800 GTS OC 640MB
Antec HE 550

i think the amd x4400 is already geared towards video games and with that 8800 carried over, the increase won't be as large with the C2D.

[TEDY]

furball how're you satisfied with IP35-E ?

[xTr33m sammich!]

havent seen much on raid performance in this thread, here's my 3x samsung SATA-II drives on a Raid-0 partition, I think it looks allright :P, I love this board, most stable best all around performer out of all the LGA775 boards I've tried.

[Id034]

When I use USB flash procedure it tells me the BIOS is not an award bios and goes back to the dos prompt.

I have formatted the USB drive per previous instructions. Any ideas? Is this an AMI bios and not an award? If I use the flash menu in windows it flashes fine but I do not like flashing in windows.

Hi guys, first post at last!
same problem here when i tried to flash with a usb pen, after renaming the bios from .03 to .rom everything went fine

[Id034]

Not stable but enough for some bench and 30-40 min priming


Stable without crazy bolts...


I'll test this week the new bios for fsb range 490-500...

[Ace-a-Rue]

havent seen much on raid performance in this thread, here's my 3x samsung SATA-II drives on a Raid-0 partition, I think it looks allright :P, I love this board, most stable best all around performer out of all the LGA775 boards I've tried.

the burst speed is miss-reported...can't have that high.

[Ace-a-Rue]

Hi guys, first post at last!
same problem here when i tried to flash with a usb pen, after renaming the bios from .03 to .rom everything went fine

can't be ".03"!...it has to have 3 characters for an extension.

[furballi]

furball how're you satisfied with IP35-E ?

I like Abit's FanEQ control. Most boards will not support my 2-pin 120 x 38 mm medium speed Panaflo. This one can vary the speed of a large 120 fan from 50% to 100% depending on CPU and/or case temperature. Northbridge also runs cooler than many P965 boards. PWM and southbridge heat sinks are cool to the touch. You'll probably don't need the extra heat pipe cooler if you have adequate case ventilation.

The board requires no bump in northbridge, southbridge, and VTT to hit 470MHz FSB with the E6320 chip. I also appreciate the extra molex power connector for the GPU and the extra ventilation space just below the PCI-E 16x slot.

Don't worry about not having an all solid caps board. None of the IP35-E's caps get hot at 488MHz FSB. These Japanese caps should last at least seven years...longer than you will care to keep the board.

The LAN on PCI is not a real-world issue because the actual throughput speed is capped by the write speed of the hard drive, currently around 50MB/sec max.

1394 would be nice, but the extra 10% speed boost isn't noticeable to me since I don't move GB of data in/out of the PC.

No compatibility with RAM. Works fine with Crucial, Kingston ValueRAM, OCZ, and Patriot. The board has sufficient voltage to fry any CPU and RAM.

I appreciate a high value, high performance board. The IP35-E lacks some bells and whistles, and may not be able to hit 600MHz FSB like its bigger brother IP35 Pro, but the board does everything that I want it to do today without spending a lot of $.

[furballi]

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[TEDY]

you can delete 1 post ;D

[Neon Biker]

I'd really like to see how the IP35-E can handle a Kentsfield. Not being able to hit 500 with a Connie is no big deal for me (and besides, it could be the CPU, not the mobo hitting a wall), but I'd like to be able to get 450ish with a quad.

[situman]

How does this board overclock with this board? Would like to know especially when quads drop in price!

[Id034]

can't be ".03"!...it has to have 3 characters for an extension.

typo miss..., it's .rom instead of .b03

[BigRigDriver]

How many of you suffer from the double boot issue???