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

[FELIX]

I don't know why, but for me the difference was 7 with IP35 Pro BIOS 10. So I subtracted 7 from each and manually set the lower values, 6 & 3, and MemSet reported the higher values 13 & 10.

For this "problem", read post #583 in this thread .

[terrybogard]

I can confirm what another said about the v1.10 being shipped with bios 14. Mine was bios 14 which I'll leave it at til I get this thing rolling. I haven't updated a bios in a long time, so the guide seems really easy, just that runme.bat stuff is a tad slight confusing.

Maybe it's just because I just woke up lol, anyways...the website pictures don't do the board enough justice...it's such a nice looking beauty.

Here's to a soulclap for Abit on another fine board, my 5th one now

[Volkswagen]

Ok few questions here

For a person like me which of the IP35 boards do you guys reccomend?

Basiclly what I want is STABILITY, OVERCLOCKING AND PERFORMANCE

I have a E6320 CPU that overclocks well up to 3.5 ghz is the most I ever tested it....Id be happy with 3.2-3.4ghz as long as its stable.....I will go quad core once the games that I play become coded for it and show improvment until then the E6320 will do me fine......I also will not need SLI/Crosfire......Basicly something thats good for a core2 duo now and quad in the future for a normal oc nothing Xtreme :p

Also Intel Matrix Raid is that just on the Ip35 Pro or does the Ip35 have it also? According to newegg its just the PRo..

Does this board work with the creative X-FI?

And before I get these boards anything u reccomend physical mods and crap before i assemble the system?

E6320
2 x 1 GB G.Skill HZ DDR2 800mhz
8800GTS 320MB
Corsair HX 620W PSU
1 x 74 and 36 GB WD Raptors 8mb Cache
X-Fi Sound Card
XP Pro SP2

[atlr]

For at least a week IP35 Pro version 1.1 boards have been shipping with BIOS 14.

Has anyone found references about differences between revision 1.0 and 1.1 other than preloaded BIOS version?

[Nelly]

Has anyone found references about differences between revision 1.0 and 1.1 other than preloaded BIOS version?

I asked the Abit Technician here in the UK last week, he said he would look into it & get back to me, I'll remind him.

[bfox2]

Has anyone noticed any kind of performace increase from bios 11 to bios 14?

Specifically HDD performace. Mabye I can finally get my storage drives to work!

[balewolf]

I wished abit would fix the issues with ip35-e i love this board but double boot sorta annoying. Cant complain about how stable it is and how easy it got my e6600 to 3600mhz.

[furballi]

I wished abit would fix the issues with ip35-e i love this board but double boot sorta annoying. Cant complain about how stable it is and how easy it got my e6600 to 3600mhz.

Beta 13 BIOS fixes the double post problem.

[balewolf]

Somewhat fixes it i had more problems with beta 13 like no post half the time and slower superpi times. 12 fixes the superpi times and no double post on reboot but still does it on shutdown.

[Danger30Q]

I just finished the heatpipe mod and temps are indeed lower, particularly the PWM which feel from almost 90C after 30 mins of Prime95 to 78C. I have 2 40mm fans blowing on the PWM and Northbridge.

I would recommend using only 1/2" screw instead of 3/4". There is plenty of room even with the 1/2". I found that reversing the direction of the screw on the northbridge heatsink helped because there was not enough room to fit the nut from the top. The screw was too close to the heatsink that it just would not fit. The 3/4" screw was way too long that it didn't allow for enough clearance for the motherboard once mounted on the case.

I also would recommend using a simple o-ring instead of a rubber gromet. The only rubber gromet I could find at Ace Hardware was almost 1cm thick. Even though it got smushed to a much smaller thickness once screwed down, it was just too big. The rubber o-ring was literally as small as the nut.

[Ace-a-Rue]

ok fella's...i tweaked my bios flashing guide to include flashing from the USB drive..i hope it is clear enough for you novices.

[Ace-a-Rue]

I haven't updated a bios in a long time, so the guide seems really easy, just that runme.bat stuff is a tad slight confusing.

Maybe it's just because I just woke up lol, anyways...

what do you want to know about the RUNME.BAT or ABITFAE.BAT?

[AstroCreep]

ok fella's...i tweaked my bios flashing guide to include flashing from the USB drive..i hope it is clear enough for you novices.

...what's a USB drive? :p

[Ace-a-Rue]

...what's a USB drive?

always the consummate joker!

[terrybogard]

what do you want to know about the RUNME.BAT or ABITFAE.BAT?

i was just wondering if I replace the actually bios files with these ones along with renaming the beta bios name.

Also I loaded windows and everything seemed great, then I go to load the chipset starter cd and restart. When windows loads my mouse and keyboard no longer power on.

The only thing I change in the bios related to the keyboard was setting it to work/have support in the bios and not just the OS

any suggestions? might reformat and try it again....


update:

Also I am going through the USB ports on the MB, but I also tried going into windows through the ps/2 ports and still no power, yet I am able to get full kayboard support in bios but not in windows

I have bios 14 w/ windows SP2 and v1.10 MB

[Ace-a-Rue]

i was just wondering if I replace the actually bios files with these ones along with renaming the beta bios name.

follow my guide...it tells to edit in windows the runme.bat with the correct bios file name and also to edit the abitfae.bat with the switches

Also I loaded windows and everything seemed great, then I go to load the chipset starter cd and restart. When windows loads my mouse and keyboard no longer power on.

The only thing I change in the bios related to the keyboard was setting it to work/have support in the bios and not just the OS

any suggestions? might reformat and try it again....


update:

Also I am going through the USB ports on the MB, but I also tried going into windows through the ps/2 ports and still no power, yet I am able to get full kayboard support in bios but not in windows

I have bios 14 w/ windows SP2 and v1.10 MB

one of the drawbacks to having an all USB setup with keyboard and mouse...you need to switch out the mouse with a P/S2 mouse when you install the INF drivers and then have to reboot...all the drivers including the USB get reinstalled..during that process, your USB keyboard and mouse go dead until the drivers are permanently installed..that happens on the next reboot....USB is convenient because of its plug-n-play feature but it sure hampers the operation when you do an Intel INF update.

[FELIX]

Is someone can confirm that memset don't work in write after flashing with bios #14 ??

[doom_st]

yes it doesn't work since b12 and afterwards

[AstroCreep]

yes it doesn't work since b12 and afterwards

...so Memtest won't work with this board running bios 12 or later?

[FELIX]

OK, it's the same for my IP_35 Pro since I flashed with Ver.14.
It's seem that Abit locked mchbar in write, and I can't do nothing .

[maxwedge]

Is someone can confirm that memset don't work in write after flashing with bios #14 ??

3.4 beta 1 works Both with 14 and beta 16
Edit: maybe because I just use it for info purposes and don't adjust with it, lol.
Edit again: yeah it doesn't work with 16 either.

[FELIX]

...could you try to adjust tRAS for test? thank.

[BenchZowner]

...could you try to adjust tRAS for test? thank.

Gonna give it a go later on, and report back.

[Ace-a-Rue]

...could you try to adjust tRAS for test? thank.

tRAS will not change with memtest 3.4 beta 1 and using IP35 Pro beta bios 16.

[maxwedge]

...could you try to adjust tRAS for test? thank.

Doesn't change. The number in memset will change but whats reported in cpuz doesn't change. Doesn't matter if lock mch bar is selected or not.
Apply, Save and About are all unselectable.