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

[strange|ife]

the olny thing i hate about this board is you cant run sli. to bad i can olny use a single 8800 ultra.

lol

only one? one ?! 8800 ultra! geez

iam waiting for the 8900 GX2 if it ever comes out.

[strange|ife]

What is the PWM temp sensor for? I'm loading Prime right now... and it is reported as 79C!

Though warning is at 100C... but still, 79C? Is it supposed to get that high?

thats a bit hot imo, and knowing uguru, add 8 c to that number!

mines sitting at 36c right now in uguru. when loading never goes over 48. Bolt town your mosfet cooler, NB, and sB. it helps some. and put a fan over the top most heatsink, that is the pwm area(mosfets). The asus fans that come with some mobos work fine, and just stick right between the fins..



but yeah, i wouldnt be very worried, but try to improve your caseflow/+ as cermanque on the NB, PWM, etc..some fans and you should notice quite a drop.

[strange|ife]

Yep c1e and EIST disabled.

Trying a stick of Gskill now. Experienced same problems with Gskill to start with. FSB limited to 290. Obviously tried various dividers and what not.

Now out of the blue, I'm gradually climbing again. Currently at 320x9. Really don't know what the problem is.

Just wondering if I over did it expecting to be able to kick off with 420x9 immediately. Almost like something tripped out.

Hopefully I'm back en route.

RLM

thats weird, i have the same modules you have. Running 4 of them right now, havent had any issues, in fact i can stress this ram to past 850mhz @2.1v, 4-4-4-15. Have you tried swapping dim slots and only running say one stick in each dimm slot with at least 30 mins of memtest? could be a crummy stick

i have the ip35 pro btw, sig is old=)

[The Viper]

What mobo are you using them on the IP35 pro or the one in your sig. If your on the IP35 pro your way overvolting for what you need to get those speeds and timings. This wboard should do that with 1T at 2.17vdimm or so.

the IP35 Pro. Unforunataely that was the voltage necessary to stabilize in memtest, anything less then 2.35 and I would get errors

EDIT: Also though Im on the original BIOS, maybe flashing to the most current one will stabilize the RAM a little

[Masami]

In my bios and uguru for CPU VTT voltage I can only choose between 1,20 and 1,23v. Is it right?

[The Viper]

In my bios and uguru for CPU VTT voltage I can only choose between 1,20 and 1,23v. Is it right?

Yep those are the only 2 options I have in my original BIOS, my old ASUS P5N32 SLI PLUS went up to 1.55

[C-N]

In my bios and uguru for CPU VTT voltage I can only choose between 1,20 and 1,23v. Is it right?

The CPU VTT is linked to the MCH.

To get higher VTT increase the MCH voltage.

[MikalCarbine]

In my bios and uguru for CPU VTT voltage I can only choose between 1,20 and 1,23v. Is it right?

I've noticed the options you can choose to VTT are relative to how high your MCH is, up your mch to 1.56 and VTT options unlock up to ~1.5v

[The Viper]

ahh that explains it, thanks guys

[bingo13]

i tried 64 bit vista and it is not that bad...

Try overclocking 4GB of memory on this board with Vista 64 and let me know if it is still not that bad... I have actually become quite fond of Vista 64 after the last patches but video card drivers still leave a lot to be desired and 4GB compatibility on this board.

[Ace-a-Rue]

all-righty-then!

i am not a 4gb fan for memory because i know it limits the overclock...i was just suggesting to another if he wanted to use 4gb's of memory then he needed to move to a 64 bit OS.

as for vista, 32 or 64 bit, i am not moving until they come out with some kind of SP1...that is what Intel announced for their corporate offices and i see the olympics is going to use XP over vista with hard wired versus using WiFi as their mode for connection...vista is apparently to flaky for the olympic committee to be a reliable OS for whatever they will do with it.

[Masami]

Thanks, guys!!!

[Ace-a-Rue]

for what?

[Masami]

for what?

Instructions about cpu vtt and mch v...

[C-N]

Ace

I notice you have an Areca raid card in your sig & wondered if you could help me out.

I am considering getting the same card as you for the reason below.

I have a couple of 80gb Hitachi's that I have run for quite a while RAID 0 with various motherboards but always have the same problem that when I get up to speed & tweaked out & happy with my rig I start getting iasator errors in the event viewer which after 2/3 days of 24/7 running crashes windows to a black screen leaving the fans running like the light is on but no ones home.

A reboot normally fixes things & in the worst case a BIOS reset & reboot get me going again.

I would like to run these & possible one or 2 more drives in RAID 0 again with my IP35 @ 462 x 8 but don't want to get the isator errors & crashes again that normally happen over about 400-425 x 8 ish with the onboard RAID controller.

Do you run your rig @ 450 x 8 24/7 with your Areca RAID setup & have you found any iasator errors in your log.

I run XP Pro BTW.

Regards

Craig.

[Ace-a-Rue]

Ace

I notice you have an Areca raid card in your sig & wondered if you could help me out.

I am considering getting the same card as you for the reason below.

I have a couple of 80gb Hitachi's that I have run for quite a while RAID 0 with various motherboards but always have the same problem that when I get up to speed & tweaked out & happy with my rig I start getting iasator errors in the event viewer which after 2/3 days of 24/7 running crashes windows to a black screen leaving the fans running like the light is on but no ones home.

A reboot normally fixes things & in the worst case a BIOS reset & reboot get me going again.

I would like to run these & possible one or 2 more drives in RAID 0 again with my IP35 @ 462 x 8 but don't want to get the isator errors & crashes again that normally happen over about 400-425 x 8 ish with the onboard RAID controller.

Do you run your rig @ 450 x 8 24/7 with your Areca RAID setup & have you found any iasator errors in your log.

I run XP Pro BTW.

Regards

Craig.

i would highly recommend the Areca raid card...it is a superb card!

i do not run my rig 24/7 so i can't help you there...what board have you had trouble with the Intel controller when overclocking?

usually the Intel controller will drop offline around 119 to 120 Mhz when running the PCIe bus at those speeds...i am running 109 Mhz right now on the Areca card and Intel Raid chipset...i have two drives attached to each chipset...i occassionally boot into the Intel chipset to just run some benches to see the difference between the two raid solutions...areca always beats out the intel solution...BUT...i've never experienced any errors with my two Seagate 7200.10 drives on the intel chipset...have you considered trying different drives...the seagate 7200-10 with the perpendicular storage technology appears to work flawlessly using that storage technology.

[C-N]

i would highly recommend the Areca raid card...it is a superb card!

i do not run my rig 24/7 so i can't help you there...what board have you had trouble with the Intel controller when overclocking?

ASUS P5K Deluxe & Abit IP35 Pro which both use the same onboard controller.

usually the Intel controller will drop offline around 119 to 120 Mhz when running the PCIe bus at those speeds...i am running 109 Mhz right now on the Areca card and Intel Raid chipset...i have two drives attached to each chipset...i occassionally boot into the Intel chipset to just run some benches to see the difference between the two raid solutions...areca always beats out the intel solution...BUT...i've never experienced any errors with my two Seagate 7200.10 drives on the intel chipset...have you considered trying different drives...the seagate 7200-10 with the perpendicular storage technology appears to work flawlessly using that storage technology.

Yes I have experienced the onboard controllers dropping as I push the PCIe frequency up on numerous boards but thats not my problem this time.

I probably will try some different drives as it really could be that the Hitachi's are not up to it.

I can run fault free for months without an error & have done with my DFI NF680 if I turn off every night its just when I leave the PC on 24/7 like I usualy do after 2-3 days I get an error followed by a black screen.

I think I will try some Samsung drives I have lying around just to rule out the Hitachi's & go from there.

Thanks

Craig.

[Ace-a-Rue]

let us know how the samsung drives work out.

[AAbenson]

what vdroop values are you guys getting with this board im getting the impression that Abit was aiming for 0.05v as a standard value...

[bfox2]

Has anyone flashed the bios from within 64 bit vista. I cant seem to get the bootable usb flash drive to format and thus have no way to flash. The windows flash program does not work either.

[C-N]

what vdroop values are you guys getting with this board im getting the impression that Abit was aiming for 0.05v as a standard value...

Thats exactly what I am getting with 1.55v set in bios.

[shimmishim]

i would highly recommend the Areca raid card...it is a superb card!

i do not run my rig 24/7 so i can't help you there...what board have you had trouble with the Intel controller when overclocking?

usually the Intel controller will drop offline around 119 to 120 Mhz when running the PCIe bus at those speeds...i am running 109 Mhz right now on the Areca card and Intel Raid chipset...i have two drives attached to each chipset...i occassionally boot into the Intel chipset to just run some benches to see the difference between the two raid solutions...areca always beats out the intel solution...BUT...i've never experienced any errors with my two Seagate 7200.10 drives on the intel chipset...have you considered trying different drives...the seagate 7200-10 with the perpendicular storage technology appears to work flawlessly using that storage technology.

Has anyone flashed the bios from within 64 bit vista. I cant seem to get the bootable usb flash drive to format and thus have no way to flash. The windows flash program does not work either.

you shouldn't try to flash via windows, especially vista64. i've done it with 32bit xp but never with vista64.

you tried to follow the directions for creating a HP flash boot drive?

[Gitsum]

Has anyone flashed the bios from within 64 bit vista. I cant seem to get the bootable usb flash drive to format and thus have no way to flash. The windows flash program does not work either.

I have. Updated the winflash program first with latest. Then downloaded bios file and used the update from file selection.

[Dredd]

Try overclocking 4GB of memory on this board with Vista 64 and let me know if it is still not that bad... I have actually become quite fond of Vista 64 after the last patches but video card drivers still leave a lot to be desired and 4GB compatibility on this board.

I can boot my memory at DDR2-1020 which is a decent overclock. What is the point of wanting 1100Mhz? Truly there is no difference for what I do (games mostly).

[Tarowah]

Hey guys I have just a couple of min to ask a quick question, I just got my Q6600 GO from Tankguys and one of my cores keeps failing Prime 95, the other 3 are running upwards of 3.7Ghz but the one that is failing starts crapping out around 3.4Ghz, I am running the system in my sig and my temps are 66* under full load on the 3 cores still running P95.


The Vid on my chip is 1.2625v and I am running 1.43v bio with a load voltage of 1.36, idle is sitting at 1.4v but what would be the max "safe" core voltage for this chip?