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

[fornowagain]

This leads me back to my orginal theory that the PSU just cant handle the full load of 7 fans, Pump, OCZ ram cooler, Q6600 OC, and the 8800 GTX. Next step looks like borrowing a friends PSU to check for stability.

Any thoughts ?

Thanks
Scott

Thats the PCP&C in the sig is it? Because I doubt its that tbh, I have one and its more than capable of that kind of load. If in doubt check the voltages at load with a meter, unless its faulty the regulation on those is pretty damn good, doubt it'll move much.

[SpinCykle]

Thats the PCP&C in the sig is it? Because I doubt its that tbh, I have one and its more than capable of that kind of load. If in doubt check the voltages at load with a meter, unless its faulty the regulation on those is pretty damn good, doubt it'll move much.

Yeah its the PCP&C in the sig. Finally got the computer to boot, decided to use the jumper instead of the EZ-CMOS clear and it booted fine. Not sure why I was getting the 8.2 error code. Looks like its time to dig out the MM and check voltages. This whole thing is frustrating to say the least. I'm assuming its just possible that 1.35 vcore bios, 1.26-29 full load isnt enough juice to achieve a stable clock. Back tot he drawing board. On a positive not the AS5 droped my temps a few degrees compared to the Cremq.

[Master of None]

Yeah its the PCP&C in the sig. Finally got the computer to boot, decided to use the jumper instead of the EZ-CMOS clear and it booted fine. Not sure why I was getting the 8.2 error code. Looks like its time to dig out the MM and check voltages. This whole thing is frustrating to say the least. I'm assuming its just possible that 1.35 vcore bios, 1.26-29 full load isnt enough juice to achieve a stable clock. Back tot he drawing board. On a positive not the AS5 droped my temps a few degrees compared to the Cremq.

I've seen where those new Quads can do some high core speeds with low core voltage but yours does seem very low to me.

I'm only running a (nicely overclocked) E4400 in my IP35 Pro, but I've found the voltages needed to pass Super Pi 32M a couple of times also worked for passing one 9+ hour round of Orthos. This was not the case with my E6600 in my AW9D Max; I always needed more of something to pass one round of Orthos.

[fornowagain]

Yeah its the PCP&C in the sig. Finally got the computer to boot, decided to use the jumper instead of the EZ-CMOS clear and it booted fine. Not sure why I was getting the 8.2 error code. Looks like its time to dig out the MM and check voltages. This whole thing is frustrating to say the least. I'm assuming its just possible that 1.35 vcore bios, 1.26-29 full load isnt enough juice to achieve a stable clock. Back tot he drawing board. On a positive not the AS5 droped my temps a few degrees compared to the Cremq.

Why not put a few more volts through it for a bit to see if that cures it? You're expecting a lot for that to be stable at 3.3GHz if its dropping to 1.26v. I'd set to about 1.48v to see the actual around 1.4v and see what happens, you won't hurt it, just keep an eye on temps. Same goes for the MCH and VTT, just bump them up, when you find the cause slowly drop them and check the results.

[SpinCykle]

Why not put a few more volts through it for a bit to see if that cures it? You're expecting a lot for that to be stable at 3.3GHz if its dropping to 1.26v. I'd set to about 1.48v to see the actual around 1.4v and see what happens, you won't hurt it, just keep an eye on temps. Same goes for the MCH and VTT, just bump them up, when you find the cause slowly drop them and check the results.

Exactly what im doing now 1.39 bios/ 1.31 load, stable for 3 hours now on prime. I bumped up the MCH and ICH voltage one notch as well. Temps are looking ok, 57 core 0&1, 50 core 2&3. Looks like i was just expecting to much from not enough voltage.....

[fornowagain]

Exactly what im doing now 1.39 bios/ 1.31 load, stable for 3 hours now on prime. I bumped up the MCH and ICH voltage one notch as well. Temps are looking ok, 57 core 0&1, 50 core 2&3. Looks like i was just expecting to much from not enough voltage.....

Don't forget maximum stock is around 1.35v, so a few millivolts above that aren't going to hurt. With temps like that and a bit more juice 3.6GHz looks possible. I wouldn't worry about the ICH voltage, thats the southbridge, shouldn't effect the overclock.

[Ace-a-Rue]

Exactly what im doing now 1.39 bios/ 1.31 load, stable for 3 hours now on prime. I bumped up the MCH and ICH voltage one notch as well. Temps are looking ok, 57 core 0&1, 50 core 2&3. Looks like i was just expecting to much from not enough voltage.....

why waste your time with orthos or P95!...if you get an hour, i think it is great...unless you fold or play games that really pull on the cpu then it is a waste of energy and time to go beyond one hour...just MHO

[bfox2]

Hey i just installed a new 400 gb hdd alongside my 500gb raid 0 setup. The bios sees it and the intel raid config sees it and windows device manager sees it but its not showing up in windows explorer. Im under vista 32 bit.

[bfox2]

Errrr Even Hd tach sees the drive. It has no letter assigned to it either. Ive tried the poplate option already. It must be some windows thing.

[Jodiuh]

why waste your time with orthos or P95!...if you get an hour, i think it is great...

That's so comical, but true. I remember playing CSS/BF2 @ a LAN once and this guy just took FOREVER to load games and get in the server. We'd be 1/2 through the round/map and he'd show up. Later on...hours later on, he'd finally broke down and asked us what seemed wrong. Slow load, slow hdd, right? HD Tach showed about 5MB/Sec STR and Orthos crashed within minutes...yet he somewhat happily gamed for quite some time!

I'll run Orthos @ bed time or when I'm not here, but there's no way I'll watch a "GO!" when I could be gaming.

Anyway, thanks much for the recommendations on this board. Turning it on w/ the Uguru clock saves my lazy a$$, the layout for SATA connectors makes life much easier, and the stability for such a new board...well, I'm going back to play Bioshock now.

[strange|ife]

anyone have info on a new beta bios???

[Ace-a-Rue]

On a positive not the AS5 droped my temps a few degrees compared to the Cremq.

your observation is correct!