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

[alpha0ne]

What they mean (which has been discussed at length over on the Abit USA forums) is that the onboard NIC is on the pci bus. It is not on a 1x pci-express lane as most of the better motherboards NIC's are nowadays. Does it really affect real-world performance? That's debatable, but most likely not.
It's a negative because the pci bus is shared with all pci devices (ie sound cards) and uses a few more cpu cycles, where as pci-express uses less cpu and is not shared with anything else.
Shawn

The only thing that suffers is actual nic thruput though unless you have better than 100Mb/s lan then it makes very little difference

Used CPU cycles are actually less on these PCI nics compared to the better thruput PCI-e nics

[226]

I'm new to OC'ing and when I build my system in a few days I would like to OC a G0 Q6600 to 3.0-3.2 which I guess would be 9x356. What voltages should I try to get to there?

[fallwind]

Whatever it takes to get there, just keep an eye on the temps. Some chips might get there on stock volts, others might need 1.5v or more. Personally I like to stick to the 10% rule with vcore which puts it at 1.45v for a B3 Q6600.

The proper way to go about this is to OC the FSB in small steps and test for stability each time. Only bump the vcore or other voltages when needed. You stop overclocking when:

-you reach your desired speed
or
-vcore is at the max safe limit (1.45)
or
-temps are at the max safe limit. (under 70c fully loaded)

What is "safe" is highly debateable but that's my opinion on it.

[strange|ife]

I'm new to OC'ing and when I build my system in a few days I would like to OC a G0 Q6600 to 3.0-3.2 which I guess would be 9x356. What voltages should I try to get to there?

well the ip35 runs at 333mhz stock. leave MCH, ICH, etc alone..no need to change them in that condition. in fact you really dont have to change them till past 400fsb..

333x9=3ghz on 6600, all the G0's should have no problem with stock or slightly higher vcore(voltag) on the cpu.

3.2ghz you could just ramp up the FSB a little bit say 360mhz. still leaving board volts alone. and will hit 3.24 ghz..with some adjust to cpu. now that depends, if you got a golden chip like a few people here, you can do almost 3.4 without much change in vcore.

mine needs about 1.48 set in bios to do that..not very good at all.

this is just basic info, every setup is a bit diffrent, powersupply is important with overclocking, and picking good ram