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

[dinos22]

i have 9136 Dominators and i top out at 540...but, part of my problem is running a Q6600...i am thinking an E6600 or E6400 would allow a higher clock on the FSB and memory side.

even with later bioses????

[Ace-a-Rue]

yes!

[dinos22]

i'll all my dominators lying around and some other sticks

if they all top out there i'm moving onto other things

we are getting DFI P35 boards in australia end of this month.......i think i'll give those a shot too

[xTr33m sammich!]

yea, In re to one of your recent posts Ace, Didn't think about it until now but, the performance gain I got with the b4 bios was the first time I flashed using your procedure, b3 was flashed using abits flash menu. that is most likely where I got the performance gain as others have not seen a difference. Either way, Thanks Ace for the good info.

[luihed]

I think the tigher you set your timings in bios, the lower the board sets the performance level... Maybe running memset and adjusting the PL will help or what I do is just crank the voltages hehe.... I think with my Ballistix pc8500s Ive hit ~640fsb cas5 and 620ish on cas4 with default subs.... This one with my ballistix 5300s, it doesnt clock as high as the 8500s but it can handle tight subs



cas5 low volts... tops out at 620fsb though no matter what.....


570fsb... cpu limited cos on air I have a fsb wall at around 552fsb....


Everything was done on original bios.... havent flashed to the new ones yet....

[dinos22]

I think the tigher you set your timings in bios, the lower the board sets the performance level... Maybe running memset and adjusting the PL will help or what I do is just crank the voltages hehe.... I think with my Ballistix pc8500s Ive hit ~640fsb cas5 and 620ish on cas4 with default subs.... This one with my ballistix 5300s, it doesnt clock as high as the 8500s but it can handle tight subs



cas5 low volts... tops out at 620fsb though no matter what.....

oh man my one's not even close

you able to test any other RAM on it

[MADMAX22]

No its the faster you set your ram the lower the performance level goes. I can run 600mhz or higher with my ballistics and the performance level changes with speed.

Like 500mhz its around 7, 550mhz its around 6 and 600mhz I usually get 5.

Timings dont seem to make a difference with my setup.

[luihed]

Ive only tested them with those ballistix.... I think this board just sets the PL level lower than the Asus or Gigabyte thats why its harder to hit high mhz... Ive seen P5Ks with PL of 9 or even higher whereas with my board I cant remember even seeing PL=8....

It does take alot of vdimm to hit 600+fsb cas4 though and I think thats where the ballistix 5300s have a big advantage over the Dominators.... Its alot easier to beat up cheap rams

[luihed]

No its the faster you set your ram the lower the performance level goes. I can run 600mhz or higher with my ballistics and the performance level changes with speed.

Like 500mhz its around 7, 550mhz its around 6 and 600mhz I usually get 5.

Timings dont seem to make a difference with my setup.

With mine its the divider that mostly affects the PL....

1:1 = PL7
5:6 = PL6
4:5 = PL5

You most likely ran 500mhz 1:1, 550mhz 5:6 and 600mhz 2:3....

[dinos22]

Ive only tested them with those ballistix.... I think this board just sets the PL level lower than the Asus or Gigabyte thats why its harder to hit high mhz... Ive seen P5Ks with PL of 9 or even higher whereas with my board I cant remember even seeing PL=8....

It does take alot of vdimm to hit 600+fsb cas4 though and I think thats where the ballistix 5300s have a big advantage over the Dominators.... Its alot easier to beat up cheap rams

i've got a "few" kits of PC10000 dominators and the best kit can do 600MHz 4-4-4-4 with tight subitmings at only 2.4v man (I'm talking 32M stable)

i tried changing the value in windows with memset and it didn't seem to impact it at all....but i've only had a couple of hours of play so far

hitting decent clocks should not be hard though.....so i'll try and retest again./....but my confidence is a little low....

now i'm not sure if it's worth even setting it up for phase

[MADMAX22]

With mine its the divider that mostly affects the PL....

1:1 = PL7
5:6 = PL6
4:5 = PL5

You most likely ran 500mhz 1:1, 550mhz 5:6 and 600mhz 2:3....

Good point that could be it, I think it was for the 550 or so and the 600 were done at 445 fsb while the 500 was 1:1.

[alpha0ne]

With mine its the divider that mostly affects the PL....

1:1 = PL7
5:6 = PL6
4:5 = PL5

You most likely ran 500mhz 1:1, 550mhz 5:6 and 600mhz 2:3....

How do you know which PL your at ???, where is it displayed ???

[dinos22]

How do you know which PL your at ???, where is it displayed ???

memset

[The Nemesis]

It's MemSet 3.3 beta2 by the way..

[alpha0ne]

It's MemSet 3.3 beta2 by the way..

Arr thanks for that, I'm using memset 3.3 final and never looked for "Performance Level", pretty hard to miss I know

[Bindibadgi]

Has anyone else noticed that the northbridge heatsink doesnt sit perfectly flat but is leaning towards one side?

Yea it's cause of the ty push pins. Same with the Asus P5N-E.

10k Doms are overly expensive for what they are, I've had just as good an experience with Kingston 9600s and they're a fraction of the price.

[dinos22]

3.3 final has performance level option for me

[luihed]

Has anyone else noticed that the northbridge heatsink doesnt sit perfectly flat but is leaning towards one side?

Mine actually sits pretty flat... First thing I did when I got the board was take the heatpipe off, do a lil bending replace the rubber stuff with stg1 and replaced all push pins with screws.... did the same thing with my Commando as well...



Add a fan on top and it works pretty good....

[Algeriano]

I think the tigher you set your timings in bios, the lower the board sets the performance level... Maybe running memset and adjusting the PL will help or what I do is just crank the voltages hehe.... I think with my Ballistix pc8500s Ive hit ~640fsb cas5 and 620ish on cas4 with default subs.... This one with my ballistix 5300s, it doesnt clock as high as the 8500s but it can handle tight subs



cas5 low volts... tops out at 620fsb though no matter what.....


570fsb... cpu limited cos on air I have a fsb wall at around 552fsb....


Everything was done on original bios.... havent flashed to the new ones yet....

What your vMCH for 570 FSB ??

[luihed]

1.72v... Here's the whole screen....

http://ocidb.com/albums/userpics/10062/normal_5130.PNG

[Algeriano]

Ok

And, what your max fréquence FSB for 1.25Vmch (strap 1333 & 1066) plz ??

[sofarfrome]

1.72v... Here's the whole screen....

Out of curiosity, what batch code is the CPU?

TIA

[xTr33m sammich!]

srry, with memset, PL5 is better than PL7? or the other way around.

[luihed]

Ok

And, what your max fréquence FSB for 1.25Vmch (strap 1333 & 1066) plz ??

I honestly dont have a clue.... Its my benching rig so Im always testing for something else and most of my voltages are probably too much....

Out of curiosity, what batch code is the CPU?

TIA

Its L632B172... Good clocker for air and water but not really all that great subzero cos the fsb wall is pretty low....

srry, with memset, PL5 is better than PL7? or the other way around.

Lower is better

[Id034]

Max DIMM is 3V but if you have an overzealous PSU and it'll warn you at 3.6. Seems a silly warning though since 3V will give you toasty chips

What's people got their Quad cores to? I'm currently running 465FSB on a zalman 9700 air but I can't load the damn thing because it reaches 80+ within about 10secs according to uguru :/

That's with beta bios b04, the board feels very strong, and think i'll be reaching a cpu wall soon.., next will be FSB 493