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

[bingo13]

Ok, thanks people. I guess 4x1GB Crucial Ballistix PC-8500 is the way to go.

I have three abit IP-35 Pro boards and have tried 27 different memory modules in 4GB configurations with the same results. Anything over DDR2-1000 is a crap shoot for 24/7 operation, there are a few gates (DDR2-1020, DDR2-1063) that seem to work just fine with additional voltage but otherwise this board is picky when it comes to 4x1GB operation when overclocking, especially with the 1333FSB CPUs. This includes four different modules from Crucial. I will not even go into the 2x2GB or 4x2GB issues since a lot boards are still behind the curve. Either I am very unlucky or the test applications I am running just hate 4x1GB on this board.

[I)ickie]

haha easy does it: Ace-A-Rue has alot of knowledge! I am however convinced with trying the 1T CR and see how it does

Only playing man.
Seen a lot of very informative posts from him. I think what he said just came out wrong. It will be interesting to play around with 1T though. Realistically though i know there is probably a solid reason that most DDR2 mobos don't have it implemented.

that's ok guys..make fun of me...i tried it with two different kinds of high end memory and i lost a few points in benchmarks!...1T is not ready for prime time unless the memory sticks can handle it.

Lost points you say! All other timings the same??? I don't see how that could be the mems fault. I would be more inclined to blame it on the chipset.

[Ad1tya]

Using 1T, on this board, barely earns me any more bandwitdh..

Im using Vista, non-optimized, all programs running.

411x9, 1:1, RAM @ 822 4-4-4-12-2T, gets me 7500-7600 mbps read bandwitdh.
411x9, 1:1, RAM @ 822 4-4-4-12-1T, gets me 8200-8300 mbps read bandwitdh.

Its really not like the 1T on 680i boards.

[luihed]

I tried to fire up my IP35 pro today but I cant get it post ... Everything is running but nothing shows up in the screen and the debug led shows either 8.3 or 9.0... Ive swapped rams, vidcard and cpu but it still wont post, also took out the battery for a couple of hours but still dead... Is this a symptom of corrupt bios?

[Magic Chief]

Wow thanks a lot Ace-a-Rue and Dredd I was undervolting with 1.8v instead of the recommended 2.2v. I works! Thanks!

[strange|ife]

I tried to fire up my IP35 pro today but I cant get it post ... Everything is running but nothing shows up in the screen and the debug led shows either 8.3 or 9.0... Ive swapped rams, vidcard and cpu but it still wont post, also took out the battery for a couple of hours but still dead... Is this a symptom of corrupt bios?

could be. what vdimm have you been using? pumping too much MCH?

man i hope mine stays alive. ive had more boards die the past couple of years. And i dont push my stuff very hard

i would check for shorts also man, take the board out and run it on a box

[luihed]

Its out already.... I got it to run just now and change some stuff in the bios ( no oc ), it hanged after the reboot and wont fire up again.... debug led shows 00 and pressing power doesnt do anything now.... I think its screwed cos just before that it was hanging everywhere according to led...

I push this board pretty hard but its my bench mobo so its not on most of the time....

[alpha0ne]

I have three abit IP-35 Pro boards and have tried 27 different memory modules in 4GB configurations with the same results. Anything over DDR2-1000 is a crap shoot for 24/7 operation, there are a few gates (DDR2-1020, DDR2-1063) that seem to work just fine with additional voltage but otherwise this board is picky when it comes to 4x1GB operation when overclocking, especially with the 1333FSB CPUs. This includes four different modules from Crucial. I will not even go into the 2x2GB or 4x2GB issues since a lot boards are still behind the curve. Either I am very unlucky or the test applications I am running just hate 4x1GB on this board.

Sounds like your having a little bad luck there bingo

My 2 x 2GB sets (one 6400 the other 8500) Ballistic Tracers go great @ 600MHz (1200) 24/7 that I managed to get down to 2.075Vdimm (2.20 shown in ss)

[Ace-a-Rue]

I tried to fire up my IP35 pro today but I cant get it post ... Everything is running but nothing shows up in the screen and the debug led shows either 8.3 or 9.0... Ive swapped rams, vidcard and cpu but it still wont post, also took out the battery for a couple of hours but still dead... Is this a symptom of corrupt bios?

8.3: in the manual, it says, "ATX power supply ready"

had the same thing...the system would not start up...it just flinch like with the fans and then it gave me 8.3...as soon as i unplugged the 12v to the cpu socket...it would start up...might try another PSU.

[C-N]

OK!...looks good....lets hope different drives work for you.

Checked this morning & no errors in the event viewer yet fingers crossed it makes it over the next few days.

just thought of something...what voltage are you supplying the ICH 1.05v and ICHIO 1.5v?...default or something higher?

I have bumped the voltages up to middle of the road as it appeared to help overall system stability when I was messing about with the RAM over 1200mhz on the next divider.

I just left the ICH voltages up even though I don't think I need it for DDR1100 as I would rather know I have some stability headroom rather than running on the edge.

OC GURU:
 
CPU OPERATING SPEED................ - USER DEFINE
EXTERNAL CLOCK..................... - 462MHz
MULTIPLIER FACTOR.................. - x 8
# ESTIMATED NEW CPU CLOCK.......... - 3696MHz
DRAM SPEED (CPU:DRAM) 1:1.20....... - DDR2-1108
PCI EXPRESS CLOCK.................. - 100MHz
 
VOLTAGE CONTROL:
 
CPU CORE VOLTAGE................... - 1.5500V
DDR2 VOLTAGE....................... - 2.250V
CPU VTT 1.2V VOLTAGE............... - 1.49V
MCH 1.25V VOLTAGE.................. - 1.52V
ICH 1.05V VOLTAGE.................. - 1.19V
ICHIO 1.5V VOLTAGE................. - 1.70V
DDR2 REFERENCE VOLTAGE............. - 0%
CPU GTLREF 0+2..................... - 67%
CPU GTLREF 1+4..................... - 67%

[shimmishim]

Its out already.... I got it to run just now and change some stuff in the bios ( no oc ), it hanged after the reboot and wont fire up again.... debug led shows 00 and pressing power doesnt do anything now.... I think its screwed cos just before that it was hanging everywhere according to led...

I push this board pretty hard but its my bench mobo so its not on most of the time....

leave it unplugged for a while.... take out battery and just let it sit.

i had a similar scare yesterday too... except i was getting 8.7 code.

i determined it was my fault for trying to get the ss fired up too quickly (not enough dry time) so there was actually water around the socket i was not aware of. i let it dry, pulled battery and let it sit for 30 minutes.

tried to reboot and this time got C1 and knew it was ram at this point.

after 15 minutes or so, i got it to boot

[Magic Chief]

Actually it still does it. I can't install a free Age of Empires 2 demo to see if my downloads are still corrupt. I also try to install VLC media player and can't. I am not overclocking and have everything at stock voltages. I have also put the memory in different slots and still get the problem. I also ran memtest and got 0 errors. Could it be the board?
CPU 1.25v
DDRII 2.2v at 5-5-5-15

[Ace-a-Rue]

Actually it still does it. I can't install a free Age of Empires 2 demo to see if my downloads are still corrupt. I also try to install VLC media player and can't. I am not overclocking and have everything at stock voltages. I have also put the memory in different slots and still get the problem. I also ran memtest and got 0 errors. Could it be the board?
CPU 1.25v
DDRII 2.2v at 5-5-5-15

set your memory to 2.1...you shouldn't need that much at stock speeds...2.2 is probably the max recommended...i would boost your ICH 1.05v to 1.12v and your ICHIO 1.5v to 1.60v to see if that helps...might need more umph through the chipsets to work with those drives...i had to do that with a pair of maxtor drives on my P5B Dlx.

[furballi]

I have three abit IP-35 Pro boards and have tried 27 different memory modules in 4GB configurations with the same results. Anything over DDR2-1000 is a crap shoot for 24/7 operation, there are a few gates (DDR2-1020, DDR2-1063) that seem to work just fine with additional voltage but otherwise this board is picky when it comes to 4x1GB operation when overclocking, especially with the 1333FSB CPUs. This includes four different modules from Crucial. I will not even go into the 2x2GB or 4x2GB issues since a lot boards are still behind the curve. Either I am very unlucky or the test applications I am running just hate 4x1GB on this board.

Abit IP35-E with four sticks of DDR2 800 Kingston "N5" ValueRAM. WXP Pro SP1 with 3GB of total physical memory. 2.1Vdimm, 5-5-5-18-2T and 1:1.50 memory divider with E4300 (200MHz default FSB). RAM is Orthos stable up to 542MHz.

Highest stable RAM speed with two sticks is 580MHz.

[luihed]

8.3: in the manual, it says, "ATX power supply ready"

I checked the PSU and its fine, it was doing the same with my other PSU ( sparkle 400w)... Im actually running this comp Im using right now with the PSU I use with the Abit.....

leave it unplugged for a while.... take out battery and just let it sit.

i had a similar scare yesterday too... except i was getting 8.7 code.

Did the same and I got it to run but it was very unstable @ stock speed so I reflashed the bios ( not really smart lol ) and it worked... Got it to run fine but its not the same board cos my E67 can only do 530fsb , it did 560fsb just the day before....

This morning I fired it up and it wont boot again.... led shows 00 and pressing power doest do anything... I think Ill just RMA it and get a new one

[bingo13]

Sounds like your having a little bad luck there bingo

My 2 x 2GB sets (one 6400 the other 8500) Ballistic Tracers go great @ 600MHz (1200) 24/7 that I managed to get down to 2.075Vdimm (2.20 shown in ss)

http://img123.imageshack.us/img123/6...b600ddrfr3.jpg

Memset is only showing 2GB installed in your board at those settings. Is that an error? Crucial sent me new modules today and they still (4x1GB Ballistic Tracers) are not stable over DDR2-1063 (Vista64), no issue doing about 1260 in a 2x1GB configuration. I will try an Allendale next but so far E6600, E6750, E6850, Q6600, QX6700, and QX6850 are not working well with 4GB on this board when overclocked.

[The Viper]

heh bingo: what kind of volts are u using for 1260Mhz? timings?

[Ad1tya]

I have to say, Im really impressed with this board..

Im running 422x9, on my chip, with the following settings..




Only thing, I hate is the vDroop, Ill definately be doing the vDroop mod soon.
I hate having to set 1.57 in BIOS, for 1.49vCore Real, which droops to 1.45 under load. .

[Dredd]

I have to say, Im really impressed with this board..

Im running 422x9, on my chip, with the following settings..




Only thing, I hate is the vDroop, Ill definately be doing the vDroop mod soon.
I hate having to set 1.57 in BIOS, for 1.49vCore Real, which droops to 1.45 under load. .

How did you get CPU-Z to show you the command rate? I set 1T in the BIOS but CPU-Z never tells me if it's set to 1T.

[T2k]

Is there any disadvantage in going with IP35 instead of Pro? I don't plan to keep this board for long, only until X38 & 8900GTX hit the shelves and then I'll go to SLI on X38 so I'm trying to keep it as cheap as possible - however not nickeling completely.
Checking at Mwave they list it for $134 minus $25 MiR*; I'd pick up a G0 Q6600 and 2x1GB PC8500 GEiL or OCZ Reaper ($40 MiR at Mwave**) as well - any advice?

TIA

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**: expires tomorrow

[Magic Chief]

set your memory to 2.1...you shouldn't need that much at stock speeds...2.2 is probably the max recommended...i would boost your ICH 1.05v to 1.12v and your ICHIO 1.5v to 1.60v to see if that helps...might need more umph through the chipsets to work with those drives...i had to do that with a pair of maxtor drives on my P5B Dlx.

Didn't work. I also reinstalled the OS and drivers and still have problem.

[Dredd]

Is there any disadvantage in going with IP35 instead of Pro? I don't plan to keep this board for long, only until X38 & 8900GTX hit the shelves and then I'll go to SLI on X38 so I'm trying to keep it as cheap as possible - however not nickeling completely.
Checking at Mwave they list it for $134 minus $25 MiR*; I'd pick up a G0 Q6600 and 2x1GB PC8500 GEiL or OCZ Reaper ($40 MiR at Mwave**) as well - any advice?

TIA

*: expires end of this month
**: expires tomorrow

There's no guarantee of X38 being an SLI board. You're basing everything on assumption and rumor.

[Dami3n]

X38 won´t be SLI.
The SLI support is the only reason to buy a nvidia chipset board instead p35-965-975, give it to intel would be a commercial suicide .

[Grinch]

just got my IP35 Pro...fired it up and got the 8.7. on bios readout...I tried 16 different types of ram 4 PSU's and 7 different cpu's...nothing...had to get an RMA for replacement from the egg...if the new board does the same...bye bye abit for good! over the years I have NEVER had what I would call a good experience with abit...dont know why but never have...and if this is a taste of whats to come it is gone....

[dab420]

Too bad Grinch, my board is doing very well. Right now testing at

460x8 (3680mhz) 1:1 DDR2 920 4-4-4-12