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

[Brother Esau]

hmmm....
abit not the panacea you thought it would be?

Certainly not a D.F.I thats for sure!

[Ace-a-Rue]

NO, it's not a fluke. I had to do the same (enable write back caching) to go from 153mb/s and 399 burst to this:

3x7200.10's Raid0

go get HDTune and do the test...comeback to show us the real numbers...that is an anomaly with HDTach...i could be wrong about the sequential read speed if you are you're using four drives in Raid 0?..is it 4 drives put together in raid 0?

[Brother Esau]

Well I have gotten the JMicro CD-RW/DVD situation under wraps! I downloaded the latest JMicro drivers and noticed that it gives you the option for Raid SCSI Drivers and Normal IDE Drivers so just installed the IDE Drivers rebooted and couple of problems corrected was even able to update Plextor 230a Firmware and now after reboot it shows as Plextor 230A in Device Manager instead of just Generic CDROM


@ Ace-a -Rue hey can you rewind one page and take a look at what I posted and tell me what you think of my settings at current O.C? ....Thank Brother...

[Brother Esau]

Here are my current clocks please advise if my Voltages are too high on some settings..... please I kinda need help!


Core Speed ~ 3240mhz X9 Multi
ExtClock: ~360
CPU CORE ~ 1.33V
DDR2 ~ 2.2V
DDR2 VTT ~1.09V
CPU VTT ~ 1.24V
MCH 1.25V ~1.33V
ICHIO 1.5V ~1.56V
ICH 1.05V ~ 1.09V

[Dredd]

Certainly not a D.F.I thats for sure!

I haven't been happy with DFI for a while myself. To each his own though.

[Brother Esau]

I am basing that opinion on their nForce4 Boards

[Knight]

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But I showed my HDTune, and I got a good deal of improvement. Why do I have to enable it but others don't in order to get a high speed?

[chawks2]

My voltages are the following for 500 x 7:

vCPU - 1.45
CPUvtt - 1.35
vMCH - 1.72
vIO - 1.19
vICH - 1.65

NB + CPU in the fishbowl.

[Brother Esau]

@chawks2 what seems to be emphasized on Voltage settings in Bios for Quad Core Overclocking?

[C-N]

[B]Here are my current clocks please advise if my Voltages are too high on some settings..... please I kinda need help

Brother here are my voltages/settings for 470 x 8 with a dual core I think the dual cores are quite light on the voltage none the less here is one more comparison that may help someone.

OC GURU:
 
CPU OPERATING SPEED................ - USER DEFINE
EXTERNAL CLOCK..................... - 470MHz
MULTIPLIER FACTOR.................. - x 8
# ESTIMATED NEW CPU CLOCK.......... - 3760MHz
DRAM SPEED (CPU:DRAM) 1:1.20....... - DDR2-1128
PCI EXPRESS CLOCK.................. - 100MHz
 
VOLTAGE CONTROL:
 
CPU CORE VOLTAGE................... - 1.5800V
DDR2 VOLTAGE....................... - 2.150V
CPU VTT 1.2V VOLTAGE............... - 1.20V
MCH 1.25V VOLTAGE.................. - 1.37V
ICH 1.05V VOLTAGE.................. - 1.12V
ICHIO 1.5V VOLTAGE................. - 1.50V
DDR2 REFERENCE VOLTAGE............. - 0%
CPU GTLREF 0+2..................... - 67%
CPU GTLREF 1+4..................... - 67%
 
ADVANCED CHIPSET FEATURES:
 
DRAM TIMING SELECTABLE............. - MANUAL
CAS LATENCY TIME (TCL)............. - 5
RAS# TO CAS# DELAY (TRCD).......... - 5
RAS# PRECHARGE (TRP)............... - 5
PRECHARGE DELAY (TRAS)............. - 15
REFRESH CYCLE TIME (TRFC).......... - 30
WRITE RECOVERY TIME (TWR).......... - 3
WRITE TO READ DELAY (TWTR)......... - 3
ACT TO ACT TIME (TRRD)............. - 3
READ TO PRECHARGE (TRTP)........... - 3
COMMAND RATE....................... - 2T
PCIE COMPLIANCE MODE............... - V1.0A
PEG FORCE X1....................... - DISABLED
INIT DISPLAY FIRST................. - PCIEX
 
ADVANCED BIOS FEATURES / CPU FEATURES:
 
THERMAL CONTROL.................... - DISABLED
LIMIT CPUID MAXVAL................. - DISABLED
C1E FUNCTION....................... - DISABLED
EXECUTE DISABLE BIT................ - ENABLED
VIRTUALISATION TECHNOLOGY.......... - ENABLED
EIST FUNCTION...................... - DISABLED

CN

[Brother Esau]

Thanks Craig! Anyone with Q6600 G0 care to be helpful and chime in?

[chawks2]

After I submitted the thread I realized you were looking for quad core volts. Sorry, no G0 stepping...YET!

[strange|ife]

go get HDTune and do the test...comeback to show us the real numbers...that is an anomaly with HDTach...i could be wrong about the sequential read speed if you are you're using four drives in Raid 0?..is it 4 drives put together in raid 0?

wtf? that has to be a glitch.

Ive ran 4 drivers before, seagate 7200.9's, it was fast as heck, but nothing like that

[strange|ife]

Oh and by the way the volt droop mod works perfectly. 1Kohm 22 turn pot and really steady hands = hardly any droop at all. Set 1.46 gets idle 1.455v to 1.452 at load. Previously 1.53v in bios = 1.455v

thanks for posting that, very concise. Shouldnt be to hard at all

[casimir37]

hi guys!

anybody knows the pll (setfsb) for this motherboard?

thanks...

[Ace-a-Rue]

Here are my current clocks please advise if my Voltages are too high on some settings..... please I kinda need help!


Core Speed ~ 3240mhz X9 Multi
ExtClock: ~360
CPU CORE ~ 1.33V
DDR2 ~ 2.2V
DDR2 VTT ~1.09V
CPU VTT ~ 1.24V
MCH 1.25V ~1.33V
ICHIO 1.5V ~1.56V
ICH 1.05V ~ 1.09V

those look about right...is that actual vcore or bios set vcore?

what's your memory ratio set to?

[Ace-a-Rue]

wtf? that has to be a glitch.

Ive ran 4 drivers before, seagate 7200.9's, it was fast as heck, but nothing like that

that's the point i was trying to make to "scwam"....HDTune is a more relevant bench to check your drive speed.

[Ace-a-Rue]

But I showed my HDTune, and I got a good deal of improvement. Why do I have to enable it but others don't in order to get a high speed?

that's the 64 million dollar question and i do not have an answer for you.

have you run hdtune with a before and after?..post the both the benches in here so we can see them...did you disable any performance items in the bios like "IDE Bus Master" in the 'onchip sata device' menu?

[Knight]

that's the 64 million dollar question and i do not have an answer for you.

have you run hdtune with a before and after?..post the both the benches in here so we can see them...did you disable any performance items in the bios like "IDE Bus Master" in the 'onchip sata device' menu?

No I did not disable any features except the PATA/eSATA controller because I don't need it.

Before volume-write back cache: 128kb strip raid 0


With volume-write back cache: 128kb strip raid 0

[Ace-a-Rue]

now...i did not enable anything in my intel raid setup after windows was installed and i got great speed as you saw back a couple of pages.

is that vista or XP?

[Knight]

now...i did not enable anything in my intel raid setup after windows was installed and i got great speed as you saw back a couple of pages.

is that vista or XP?

It is on XP Pro. With the F6 driver install.

[Ace-a-Rue]

i can't boot into my intel raid setup since i have my system on my bench...thos drives are still in the case...i just changed out my Q6600 B3 to Q6600 "G0"...

[Ace-a-Rue]

It is on XP Pro. With the F6 driver install.

i'm wondering if you used the correct driver...that might possibly be the problem!

[Knight]

i can't boot into my intel raid setup since i have my system on my bench...thos drives are still in the case...i just changed out my Q6600 B3 to Q6600 "G0"...

Congrats on the chip. I hope it's good to you.

I am pretty sure that I used the correct driver... but at one point during the install... when you hit the 's' key to pick the one to install.. it had 3 options. The first was to install a ARCH (don't know what it is called) driver that is for the Intel. At the end of it said - (ICH9H Desktop). The third option was to install the Intel SATA driver that was also for ICH9H, but it did not say it was for desktop.

I picked the third one because it was the only one that had SATA.

[Ace-a-Rue]

Congrats on the chip. I hope it's good to you.

i hit 4.0 Ghz...i couldn't run everest stability test for very long...probably needed more voltage but i was hesitant from pouring it on.

i am sitting at almost 3.8 Ghz with a actual vcore of 1.42v...AMAZING!...i could go to 3.7 Ghz on the B3 but it needed about 1.58v to 1.59v.