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

[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]

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

your observation is correct!

[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.

[Ace-a-Rue]

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.

you need to make it either a primary partition or extended partition drive...then format it so you can store items on it.

[bfox2]

Nevermind I got it figured out in disk management. sorry for the triple post.

[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]

are you asking about "12.B02"?

[GameGuru]

Anyone know if there's a Vdroop pencil mod for this board or just the solder mod. I was going to attempt the solder mod but holy donkey turds batman, talk about soldering to the size of pencil dot. How are people pulling this off.

[strange|ife]

are you asking about "12.B02"?

no not 12. anything newer

releases have slowed quite a bit it seems, guess the team is cranking away at the x38 stuff

[new-b]

Anyone know if there's a Vdroop pencil mod for this board or just the solder mod. I was going to attempt the solder mod but holy donkey turds batman, talk about soldering to the size of pencil dot. How are people pulling this off.

No pencil mod...... I've been kinda put off by the small size of the mod too, but if Alik4041 can do it using this...........well, I have no excuse not to do it now lol
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...postcount=2223

[Alik4041]

Glad I can be of service BTW, JB said that the pencil mod is doable but very inaccurate. You shouldn't do it when we're talking about precision resistance down to the ohm.

[Jodiuh]

Board causes my X-Fi to crackle. I'm guessing it's something to do w/ the layer count of the PCB cause my DFI Infinity did it. EVGA 680i and Asus P5B Deluxe do not have this problem. Sure wish Abit would release a max board w/ cooler pwm's and a thicker board.

[fornowagain]

How are people pulling this off.

The scale is a bit daunting, but steady hands and a magnifying glass helps

[Ace-a-Rue]

Board causes my X-Fi to crackle. I'm guessing it's something to do w/ the layer count of the PCB cause my DFI Infinity did it. EVGA 680i and Asus P5B Deluxe do not have this problem. Sure wish Abit would release a max board w/ cooler pwm's and a thicker board.

could be a bios problem...resource interference.

[scorpion]

newbee to the ip35 pro bios and overclocking, use to intel d975xbx2 bios can anyone give heads on timing vdimm,men ref,men freg,thanks scorpion

[Pntgrd]

Board causes my X-Fi to crackle. I'm guessing it's something to do w/ the layer count of the PCB cause my DFI Infinity did it. EVGA 680i and Asus P5B Deluxe do not have this problem. Sure wish Abit would release a max board w/ cooler pwm's and a thicker board.

I have no problems with my X-Fi under Vista or XP either one. Didn't I read somewhere about the latest Creative Vista driver causing this? I remember thinking about that when I loaded Vista but I had no problems so figured I must have gotten ahold of the older version.

[Alik4041]

I have no problems with my X-Fi under Vista or XP either one. Didn't I read somewhere about the latest Creative Vista driver causing this? I remember thinking about that when I loaded Vista but I had no problems so figured I must have gotten ahold of the older version.

Well I just installed vista x64 5 minutes ago. Here's hoping I don't get any problems with my x-fi At least now I can use all 4GB of memory

[GameGuru]

The scale is a bit daunting, but steady hands and a magnifying glass helps

Thats funny because I went and actually bought a magnifying glass here from Radio Shack just to do this mod as well as my 8800GTX but damn even with a magnifying glass it's so frikin small. Maybe I was using the wrong size of wire