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

[Kin Hell]

Nope, I agree with AstroCreep...boards are def different.
New-b on post #3075 shows the whole area here is different.
The caps being a different size would not warrant a Revision Change.

It is normal for board manufacturers to change the Version Number by a decimal place when there are changes made to the board layout. If they change a surface mounted component, they usually leave the Version number alone & attatch a sticker with a Letter to denote the change. In this case, version 1.1 only has 3 Resistors which means a change in PCB, hence the change in Revision number.

Anyone know why they made this change??

[nfsnfs]

hello guys , is this KIT compatible with board ?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820148144

This kit is not under recommended list on first post .

[scwam]

hello guys , is this KIT compatible with board ?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820148144

This kit is not under recommended list on first post .

Yes, I would assume so. I have 6 pairs of Ballistix, including Tracers and all of them work fine. I don't have this one but 99% bet it's all the same.

[maxwedge]

There's no need to run 1180-1200 to get those kind of Super_Pi results...

I don't believe that that was anyone's point about trying for over ddr1200 with this board.

[Ace-a-Rue]

Slight difference between the top PCI-E and PCI slot....

i see what you are talking about in resistors in that area but all this could be is refinement..or..just that parts used before are not available or to expensive.

so...what is suppose to be the performance difference between the two boards

[Ace-a-Rue]

Nope, I agree with AstroCreep...boards are def different.
New-b on post #3075 shows the whole area here is different.
The caps being a different size would not warrant a Revision Change.

It is normal for board manufacturers to change the Version Number by a decimal place when there are changes made to the board layout. If they change a surface mounted component, they usually leave the Version number alone & attatch a sticker with a Letter to denote the change. In this case, version 1.1 only has 3 Resistors which means a change in PCB, hence the change in Revision number.

Anyone know why they made this change??

i think you are making more out of this than is necessary...changes are made all the time...most times it is done to rectify a grossly inadequate performance issue, vis-a-vis, EVGA's 680i board was horrible for their 1st release...their revision help rectify the 1st release.

the IP35 Pro is an excellent board right from the get-go...the only thing that might be needed to be tweaked is the Vdrop & droop....lets hope that is what the revision is about.

[Heidfirst]

i see what you are talking about in resistors in that area but all this could be is refinement..or..just that parts used before are not available or to expensive.

that central chip appears to have changed part nos too.

[pcdoc1]

I don't believe that that was anyone's point about trying for over ddr1200 with this board.

You could be right, I didn't read the whole discussion… Yet slapping the board and mem around with voltage and cooling to achieve nothing positive, hardly makes sense.

[Ace-a-Rue]

that central chip appears to have changed part nos too.

my point!...parts are changed out because of cost factor....a lot of these parts rely on oil (chemical derivative from oil) and since the price for a barrel of oil is shooting up there to $88, it makes sense that abit has to change parts vendor.

[atlr]

Hurray for sharp eyes.

I added closeup pictures of the clock chips on the v1.00 and v1.10 PCBs http://picasaweb.google.com/gibson.e...0AndV110Photos

PCB v1.00
ICS
7338287
0724
9LPR501HGLF


PCB v1.10
IDT
CV163CPAG
CZ0619D

[pcdoc1]

Haven't had much time to play with this setup but it may be worth keeping...

[Masami]

Guys, sorry, but which version of setfsb works with this mainboard????

[strange|ife]

heh was about to post the news on the revision, looks like yall beat me too it.

anyone have one of these new ones? from what i see its a mild change with a few caps. Wonder if droop is somewhat better+ better 4g stability.

someone post up if they pick one up

[maxwedge]

Haven't had much time to play with this setup but it may be worth keeping...

Congratulations 1st I've seen over 600mhz for ddr on the board. How many volts did you throw at the mch, cpu vvt and ddr2? Did you run memtest86+ with that memory setting?

[Harshal]

A friend @ ABIT did clear things up about new REV 1.1, its better clocking [may be due to Clockgen] and few minor enhancements to stablize and get better performance

[pcdoc1]

Congratulations 1st I've seen over 600mhz for ddr on the board. How many volts did you throw at the mch, cpu vvt and ddr2? Did you run memtest86+ with that memory setting?

Vcore @1.5175 - DDR@2.35 - MCH@1.37... Didn't run memtest, ran ORTHOS for an hour just play around.

[maxwedge]

Vcore @1.5175 - DDR@2.35 - MCH@1.37... Didn't run memtest, ran ORTHOS for an hour just play around.

Thanks, I've tried those but my board just won't go over ddr1186. Your's wouldn't happen to be a v1.1?

[pcdoc1]

Thanks, I've tried those but my board just won't go over ddr1186. Your's wouldn't happen to be a v1.1?

Nope, 1.0.

[Rattle]

got mine from the egg today v1.1 with 14 bios.
nice mobo so far.

[Ace-a-Rue]

got mine from the egg today v1.1 with 14 bios.
nice mobo so far.

hmmmm...keep us posted on your overclocking results.

[bfox2]

would someone mind posting the raid drivers for win xp.. Not the link to the floppy creator because im going to slipstream them into the install, so i need the exact ones.

[Hazzan]

IP35Pro Rev 1.1 any confirmation about clockgen or setFSB support ? Please !!!

[scwam]

Yes!!!. I just successfully routed a micro NTC thermistor from Mcshane thermistors between the 775 pins and directly under my 6850 making contact with the bottom of the cpu. It's accurate to +/- 1.0c. Just as I suspected, despite this talk of T-Junction, Coretemp .94 is correct at load temps (within 2c) and Uguru was always incorrect reporting almost 10c higher.
Although both Uguru and bios seem to be right on when not at full load. Right now under Orthos, the probe is reporting 70.1c with Cortemp at 71c and Uguru at 77c .
The response rate is of corse slower because it's not actally touching the die and heat has to disperse under the cpu first. Seems to be about a 1 minute lag up to 65c from coretemp and slightly longer after that. But even above 65c, its usually very close to coretemp. I need to check more to check the rise temp against fall temps and baselines to see the full scale of it.

[Heidfirst]

A friend @ ABIT did clear things up about new REV 1.1, its better clocking [may be due to Clockgen] and few minor enhancements to stablize and get better performance

abit UK say that it was purely for manufacturing reasons & that there should be no performance difference ...

[Ace-a-Rue]

would someone mind posting the raid drivers for win xp.. Not the link to the floppy creator because im going to slipstream them into the install, so i need the exact ones.

start here...you will eventually get where you want to go:

http://www.intel.com/support/chipsets/