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

[Ace-a-Rue]

you are doing cross shipping so it should not take more than a week to ten days once you complete the deal with abit.

[neonflx]

if you are happy with a 4Ghz overclock, why tempt fate!

i think the first bios "10" was not compatible with a Raid Array and vista...up to you about upgrading.

EDIT:...how are you measuring the Vdrop?

i am measuring at the point suggested here in the forums (in the actual mobo)

[Pntgrd]

you are doing cross shipping so it should not take more than a week to ten days once you complete the deal with abit.

i will get them paid tonight and hope the board gets here in a week. I am going to the Kansas races this weekend but I need a Monday night project next week.

[Ace-a-Rue]

i am measuring at the point suggested here in the forums (in the actual mobo)

ok, was curious about how it was being measured.

[GameGuru]

since you did the vdroop mod, i would increase the resistance to get some gap between set vcore and actual vcore to see if that has any influence over your problem....in other words, make it like you had no vdroop mod installed.

Ace, that seems to have done the trick. At least now I can start benching again, thank you! Weird thing though, if I set my memory divider in the bios to 1.25, then boot into windows, open uGuru and select my profile, it instantly locks and I have to do a quick power off, it's like it only want's to run at 1:1. I don't get it, in theory it should be running close enough to the stock speed of the memory (DDR-1066) 425 x 1.25 = 531.25 x 2 for DDR = 1062.5

Another thing I've noticed when playing certain games, they don't run at normal speed, it's like the game is turbo charged for some reason, I don't know whats going on.

Suggestions anyone?

[Masami]

This is my overclock...

[Volkswagen]

I am considering this board to replace my asus P5K Vanila....The asus board works fine but I had an issue where it wouldn't boot 2 or 3 times no matter what I did....I had to borrow some cheap ram boot up with that and then stick in my Gskill HZ and be able to boot but besides that its rock stable and overclocks good for my needs....Seeing a few posts about asus P5K mobos blowing up with quad cores under load and i will be upgrading to a quad core whenever the games start taking advantage of it so I figured I upgrade to this abit board! Will it be compatible with my ram 2 x 1 GB g.Skill DDR2 800 HZ 4-4-4-12 ? Also does the whole heat pipe cooling system need a small fan blowing over it for more stability or is it fine as is ?

[Jodiuh]

I can't believe some of you guy's temps/volts to get up there. Even w/ 2 less cores, my little E6400 needs more volts and gets hotter.

[AstroCreep]

I am considering this board to replace my asus P5K Vanila....The asus board works fine but I had an issue where it wouldn't boot 2 or 3 times no matter what I did....I had to borrow some cheap ram boot up with that and then stick in my Gskill HZ and be able to boot but besides that its rock stable and overclocks good for my needs....Seeing a few posts about asus P5K mobos blowing up with quad cores under load and i will be upgrading to a quad core whenever the games start taking advantage of it so I figured I upgrade to this abit board! Will it be compatible with my ram 2 x 1 GB g.Skill DDR2 800 HZ 4-4-4-12 ? Also does the whole heat pipe cooling system need a small fan blowing over it for more stability or is it fine as is ?

Is that the P965 board? If so I've read that's a common thing with that board; it won't boot up with RAM that uses voltage over the DDR2 standard. At least with the older versions/BIOS.

[Volkswagen]

its a p35 board P5K Vanilla with latest bios

[Ace-a-Rue]

i think a few used GSkill and it was ok.

the problem with your ram, ATM, is it needing higher vdimm to operate....if i were to take an educated guess, i would bet one or both sticks have a defect in them, possibly in need of a RMA

[Volkswagen]

hmm I guess that could be it then? I assume 1.8V is the standard for the mobo ram voltage and my rams specs are

Capacity 2GB (2 x 1GB)
Speed DDR2 800 (PC2 6400)
Cas Latency 4
Timing 4-4-4-12
Voltage 2.0V - 2.1V

So that could be my issue right there then ?

gonna have to contact gskill and see what they say

[Ace-a-Rue]

hmm I guess that could be it then? I assume 1.8V is the standard for the mobo ram voltage and my rams specs are

Capacity 2GB (2 x 1GB)
Speed DDR2 800 (PC2 6400)
Cas Latency 4
Timing 4-4-4-12
Voltage 2.0V - 2.1V

So that could be my issue right there then ?

gonna have to contact gskill and see what they say

i think the upper number is the theoretical max....if they were working before at your initial boot up at default speed and now you have problems at default speed and vdimm then i would say the ram is the culprit.

[Volkswagen]

thats the thing i had a dfi p965-s before the ausus p5k sold the dfi cuz of the annoying squeeling noise but the dfi booted every time straight out the box with the current ram I got....When I got the Asus P5K in it took me like an hour to get it to boot with my current ram so the ram should be fine its stable when overclocked and system is rock solid

[GameGuru]

Hey Ace my PWM temps are through the roof. I did the heatpipe mod, used a little MX-1 and tossed the thermal pad that it came with and have a 40mm fan blowing on it. I think maybe I tightened the bolts to tight. On load it's getting around 80+. What would you suggest?

Thanks!

[Jodiuh]

Haah, I do share your gift of over tightening a bolt. Did you check for contact? What's your room temp, case airflow like? (sorry if you already posted)

And how much clearance between the pwm's and the sink guys? Typically I'll wipe it all clean w/ some 99.9% alcohol, then reuse the stock pad to ensure contact.

EDIT: Stacker 832...airflow's obviously not the problem.

[scwam]

thermal pads. I got 100 of these: http://cgi.ebay.com/Thermal-Pads-for...QQcmdZViewItem

I'm not that seller, I'm in florida, I just bought them from him.
I've not tested them yet and believe that they might just possibly be too thick. I'm going to order some of the 1.5mm version. If you anyone wants to buy some for cheap (75 cents for 4 pieces + shipping) I'll sell some of the 2.5mm ones. Tell me how they work. I'm getting both sizes just in-case.

[strange|ife]

ok you should have left the pad on the pwm. Iam one to speak on this, i left it off and over did it on torque on my first board, and it was screwed a couple of weeks later.. took a lil while to show up.

my new one has been humming along fine, minus a few minor things with going full bore to vista.

this board has some vdimm droop, my gskills need 2.125 to run 2.1, it will still sometimes droop down to 2.085~ under complete load..but is stable so this could be an issue, up your volts a little bit on vdiim,SB, and MCH a hair see what happens. go ahead and loosen the TRAS if u havent and see if that helps, leave 1t/2t @2T. i found it has no bearing on memory performance, amoung many others i guess. leave it at 2T just for good measure

80C should be ok for a bench, but if its hitting like 60~day2day thats too much. It should idle about 36-42 under normal room temps.

if you get a new board, dont rush to do the bolt mod, just see how it performs out of the box first. My rma PWM sink was perfect, was making very good contact, and i idle at 35C@ 77c room temp on the pwm/with 60mmfan. it peaks out at 65C under full load, which is normal. If u dont have good contact out of the box either realign the sink, or do ACE's bolt through mod, but more carefully this time

[pump101]

dont know if this has been asked elsewhere on this thread, but can anyone tell me if this board has the same power down/restart feature as the asus boards? i have the P5K deluxe and using a vapochill lightspeed as cooling
as cooling and its a nightmare tryin to save overclocked bios settings as the board completely shuts down before before powering back up again 2-3 seconds later. so i'm looking for a board that doesnt do that, and the abit caught my eye.

any help would be appreciated.

[Alik4041]

dont know if this has been asked elsewhere on this thread, but can anyone tell me if this board has the same power down/restart feature as the asus boards? i have the P5K deluxe and using a vapochill lightspeed as cooling
as cooling and its a nightmare tryin to save overclocked bios settings as the board completely shuts down before before powering back up again 2-3 seconds later. so i'm looking for a board that doesnt do that, and the abit caught my eye.

any help would be appreciated.

It does do that. Powers down and turns on in 2 seconds. But abit guru is your friend. Through windows = no need to shutdown. Instant overclock

[new-b]

Some bios settings will require the board to power down/restart... but Uguru can change most settings from inside OS (and whatever settings you shut down with will be saved to bios)... only settings I can think of off hand that may still require the power down/restart, would be changing cas latency on memory and multi (not sure about multi, I never change mine).



EDIT: Alik4041 beat me to it lol

[vailr]

New drivers:
Intel Matrix Storage Manager 7.6.1.1002
http://www.station-drivers.com/page/intel%20raid.htm
REALTEK GbE & FE Ethernet PCI NIC (RTL8169/8110/RTL8139/810x/RTL8139C+ Serie)
http://www.station-drivers.com/page/realtek.htm

[Ace-a-Rue]

New drivers:
Intel Matrix Storage Manager 7.6.1.1002
http://www.station-drivers.com/page/intel%20raid.htm
REALTEK GbE & FE Ethernet PCI NIC (RTL8169/8110/RTL8139/810x/RTL8139C+ Serie)
http://www.station-drivers.com/page/realtek.htm

thank you...

[Ace-a-Rue]

Hey Ace my PWM temps are through the roof. I did the heatpipe mod, used a little MX-1 and tossed the thermal pad that it came with and have a 40mm fan blowing on it. I think maybe I tightened the bolts to tight. On load it's getting around 80+. What would you suggest?

Thanks!

hmmmm, i would say the heatsink is not sittling level on the mosfets....i pulled out my QuadGT board to re-do the PWM mod by switching out the plastic push pins with the nuts and bolts...when i remounted the heatsink, i did not make sure it was level on the "digital" pwm's...so...2 out of the 5 were not "even" touching the heatsink...i was safe for idle conditions but not for priming...and...in a matter of a few minutes, i burned the heck out of one of the digital PWM's...board is dead!

[Alik4041]

New drivers:
Intel Matrix Storage Manager 7.6.1.1002
http://www.station-drivers.com/page/intel%20raid.htm
REALTEK GbE & FE Ethernet PCI NIC (RTL8169/8110/RTL8139/810x/RTL8139C+ Serie)
http://www.station-drivers.com/page/realtek.htm

hopefully these ethernet drivers will fix my problem. Everytime I go on my computer, I have to plug the ethernet cable in a different ethernet connector. Neither of them are broken, but I have to switch from one to the other to the other to the other.... getting annoying. Not sure if it's my wrt54g - have it with ddwrt firmware so I don't know Here's hoping these fix it