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

[NiSMo]

Oh, I don't know that one and was thinking memtest86+
btw, if you want 4gb of ram on this board I'd be looking at two 2gb sticks and not four 1gb.

yep thats exactly wat i have done,

bought the G.Skill 2x2gb PQ sticks

also i did use memtest86+ but yeh its the one thats on the ultimate boot cd.. whichever version that loads up by default

[jagt]

I'm having pretty good success running 4x1GB Crucial Ballistix on this board. I'm running ~1100MHz, 5-5-5-12 at the moment, which appears to be memtest stable. Still testing my CPU though. I'm at 458x8 right now.

[mnaz]

Ok just got this board setup to replace my p5k deluxe which died. With my two ballistix I get a C1 error. When i try to boot and with one of them I get the C1 error when it is by itself the other I do not. Dead stick most likely? I did set the timings and voltages manually in the bios.

[jagt]

Hm.. What's a "normal" FSB wall to hit with quad core on this board? Mine seem to crap out at around 460MHz, which is a bit annoying. Prime locks up within a few secs at 462x8, while 412x9 has been going now for a while. Any settings I should look at changing?

[akajay]

Ok just got this board setup to replace my p5k deluxe which died. With my two ballistix I get a C1 error. When i try to boot and with one of them I get the C1 error when it is by itself the other I do not. Dead stick most likely? I did set the timings and voltages manually in the bios.

its most likely a dead stick when i put in my ballistix from my dead p5b-deluxe it wouldnt boot, rmaed it and put in the new sticks and it boots fine without any errors.


also is the vdroop on this board that bad? on my p5b i only had to set 1.45v to get my e6600 stable at 3.6 but on this board i had to set it at 1.48. i dont have a multimeter so i cant really see what the "real" voltages are but uguru jumps from 1.46ish idle to 1.42/1.45 load.

[jagt]

Blah, anything over 460FSB is definitely a no-go on this setup. After 455 things start getting flakey, but anything below seems stable. CPU does 3750MHz at my current vcore, so that's not the problem. Is this a normal wall to hit with a quad? Anything I can do about it? My goal was 462 FSB for around 3.7GHz with memory at a 5:6 ratio for around 1110MHz. So far I've established that both CPU and memory will do these frequencies fine, but and mentioned the motherboard appears to be holding me back.

[Ace-a-Rue]

Blah, anything over 460FSB is definitely a no-go on this setup. After 455 things start getting flakey, but anything below seems stable. CPU does 3750MHz at my current vcore, so that's not the problem. Is this a normal wall to hit with a quad? Anything I can do about it? My goal was 462 FSB for around 3.7GHz with memory at a 5:6 ratio for around 1110MHz. So far I've established that both CPU and memory will do these frequencies fine, but and mentioned the motherboard appears to be holding me back.

i say that you are very close to the top end of a Q6600.

you need to post all your voltages that you are using and what higher voltages you tried to support a higher overclock.

i see that you are using 4 x 1Gb sticks...probably that is your problem from going any higher.

[Daemonfly]

Just got this board today for a q6600 setup. Test hook-up & all is working, although WinXP 64bit wouldn't install (blue screen). Vista 32 did though, for now.



So... anyone actually make a custom PWM waterblock yet?

[jagt]

i say that you are very close to the top end of a Q6600.

you need to post all your voltages that you are using and what higher voltages you tried to support a higher overclock.

i see that you are using 4 x 1Gb sticks...probably that is your problem from going any higher.

Well, I don't think it's the memory. I've tried 1:1 for lower frequencies, and the same thing happens. I've tried 2x1GB too, and it's still the same. Also, the memory passes endless hours of memtest at 1110MHz, 4x1GB, 5-5-5-12.

Anyway, here's the voltages I'm using at the moment:



Some of the may be artificially high right now as I'm testing things. These voltages gave me 12 hours+ of prime stability at 452x8, memory 5:6 (1084). I think I can do these CPU frequencies with lower vcore, but I haven't tried lower yet.

[RAdoxx]

Guys, I need some help.

Like a week ago when I was unpacking some rar-files on one of my harddrives the entire computer froze and I had to reboot after which I kept getting CHKDSK saying that there was something wrong with the disk. That went away after like 10 reboots but now everytime I browse that HDD or try to run like HDTACH on it everything freezes again. When I check the Event Viewer there's alot of errors called iaStor which are the AHCI drivers, something about them not responding within the set time.

So, I thought it was the HDD that was dying, but nooo.. I've tried reformatting it and it didn't help, I've also tried using IDE instead of AHCI emulation within BIOS but I couldn't even get passed POST, everything would just freeze and I had to reboot.

Then I disconnected one of the harddrives (got 2 500gb samsung and a raptor) and boom, I got passed POST again when having the disks set to IDE.

So far I've narrowed it down to possibly the motherboard, cause if I have SATA-ports 1-4 occupied I can't get passed POST, but if I take for example the disk in port 3 and move it to port 5 I get passed POST. I still get hangups within Windows though, when running like HDTACH or trying to extract a file. Now the other samsung-drive is getting CHKDSK errors aswell and one folder isn't accessible cause it's broken or something.

Today I'm gonna low format the first disk and try to reinstall windows with just the raptor and that one samsung disk connected and see if I can pass HDTACH tests without everything freezing.

Do you guys have any idea of what the problem might be?

EDIT: The raptor disk passes HDTACH tests and never makes the system hang, it's only the samsung disks. Also, I have a SATA-dvdburner, that's why I've got 4 SATA-ports occupied

[hadji_a]

if you are using the psu in your sig (not a psu issue), I would suggest giving your Sb voltage a small increase.

[RAdoxx]

if you are using the psu in your sig (not a psu issue), I would suggest giving your Sb voltage a small increase.

You think that would solve it even though I've ran everything on the lowest possible voltage setting for like 5 months without any problems?

But sure, I'll try that later, thanks.

[mnaz]

Well after messing around for a while my second stick started working (don't ask me how) and now the board is all set up and the os is installed. I love the board layout and hopefully the bolt mod will allow me to get back to the 3.7 I was running 24/7 on my p5k deluxe.

[Ace-a-Rue]

Well, I don't think it's the memory. I've tried 1:1 for lower frequencies, and the same thing happens. I've tried 2x1GB too, and it's still the same. Also, the memory passes endless hours of memtest at 1110MHz, 4x1GB, 5-5-5-12.

Anyway, here's the voltages I'm using at the moment:



Some of the may be artificially high right now as I'm testing things. These voltages gave me 12 hours+ of prime stability at 452x8, memory 5:6 (1084). I think I can do these CPU frequencies with lower vcore, but I haven't tried lower yet.

all those are good except ICHIO 1.5...you will need to tweak it higher, like 1.60 or 1.65.

what is your objective?...to go higher with the overclock to make it non-P95 stable or P95 stable....two big distinctions when it comes to voltages required.

[Ace-a-Rue]

Well after messing around for a while my second stick started working (don't ask me how) and now the board is all set up and the os is installed. I love the board layout and hopefully the bolt mod will allow me to get back to the 3.7 I was running 24/7 on my p5k deluxe.

i hope the mod will allow it...i have confidence it will...one thing to remember that mobo's will be different when it comes to voltages required to attain a certain overclock....it is the nature of the "beast"!

[Ace-a-Rue]

Guys, I need some help.

Like a week ago when I was unpacking some rar-files on one of my harddrives the entire computer froze and I had to reboot after which I kept getting CHKDSK saying that there was something wrong with the disk. That went away after like 10 reboots but now everytime I browse that HDD or try to run like HDTACH on it everything freezes again. When I check the Event Viewer there's alot of errors called iaStor which are the AHCI drivers, something about them not responding within the set time.

So, I thought it was the HDD that was dying, but nooo.. I've tried reformatting it and it didn't help, I've also tried using IDE instead of AHCI emulation within BIOS but I couldn't even get passed POST, everything would just freeze and I had to reboot.

Then I disconnected one of the harddrives (got 2 500gb samsung and a raptor) and boom, I got passed POST again when having the disks set to IDE.

So far I've narrowed it down to possibly the motherboard, cause if I have SATA-ports 1-4 occupied I can't get passed POST, but if I take for example the disk in port 3 and move it to port 5 I get passed POST. I still get hangups within Windows though, when running like HDTACH or trying to extract a file. Now the other samsung-drive is getting CHKDSK errors aswell and one folder isn't accessible cause it's broken or something.

Today I'm gonna low format the first disk and try to reinstall windows with just the raptor and that one samsung disk connected and see if I can pass HDTACH tests without everything freezing.

Do you guys have any idea of what the problem might be?

EDIT: The raptor disk passes HDTACH tests and never makes the system hang, it's only the samsung disks. Also, I have a SATA-dvdburner, that's why I've got 4 SATA-ports occupied

put the sata DVD drive on the 5th or 6th ports.

[RAdoxx]

put the sata DVD drive on the 5th or 6th ports.

Any reason to why I should have to do this? :x
Is port 1-4 supposed to be for harddrives, and 5-6 for other devices?

[Ace-a-Rue]

as far as i know...a dvd drive is not a hard drive...i made a suggestion to help and you question it...you can either try it or continue your diagnostics to figure out your problem....personally, sounds like one of your samsung drives is not playing nice, nice.

[RAdoxx]

I tried it, and I still got errors in the Event Viewer. Atleast it doesn't freeze at POST anymore, gonna low format one of the drives then install XP with hdd's set to IDE and try again.

[jagt]

all those are good except ICHIO 1.5...you will need to tweak it higher, like 1.60 or 1.65.

what is your objective?...to go higher with the overclock to make it non-P95 stable or P95 stable....two big distinctions when it comes to voltages required.

Thanks. What exactly is the ICHIO voltage? What does it do?

My objective is to obtain an overclock of 3.7GHz with a 8x multiplier, Prime stable. I know Prime stability doesnt nnecessarily mean much, but I can't get peace in my soul without knowing it's P95 stable, haha. Old habit's hard to change, I guess.

My problem as it is now isn't Prime stability though. My system just freezes if the FSB frequency is too high, ie, over 450MHz.

Thanks for your suggestions and tips, by the way. Greatly appreciated.

[Ace-a-Rue]

ICHIO 1.5 is your SB input/ouput...the ICH 1.05 is the core voltage of the SB...the ICHIO is more important than ICH...in fact...you can probably cut back the ICH back to 1.05v

EDIT:..my suggestion is to max out ICHIO and MCH...lower your FSB memory ratio to 1:1 and then start increasing vcore and FSB to see what you can do with P95...once you reach 3.7 and say P95 for an hour, you can start experimenting lowering your ICHIO and MCH down to see if you can still P95

[Ace-a-Rue]

I tried it, and I still got errors in the Event Viewer. Atleast it doesn't freeze at POST anymore, gonna low format one of the drives then install XP with hdd's set to IDE and try again.

i hope that works for you.

[jagt]

ICHIO 1.5 is your SB input/ouput...the ICH 1.05 is the core voltage of the SB...the ICHIO is more important than ICH...in fact...you can probably cut back the ICH back to 1.05v

EDIT:..my suggestion is to max out ICHIO and MCH...lower your FSB memory ratio to 1:1 and then start increasing vcore and FSB to see what you can do with P95...once you reach 3.7 and say P95 for an hour, you can start experimenting lowering your ICHIO and MCH down to see if you can still P95

Thanks, I'll try increasing ICHIO and see if that does anything. Right now I'm gonna let my system stay at the stable 450x8 for some Call of Duty 4 action! Imortant to remember using the system for what it's built for once in a while in between all the tweaking :P

[RAdoxx]

i hope that works for you.

It did work until I connected the second samsung drive, the errors in event viewer came back and it appears to be running in PIO mode and I can't change it to DMA. =/

Guess I'll low format the second drive aswell and hope for the best..

It seems unlikely that both drives would crash at the same time, so I'm still suspecting something else. :x

EDIT: ...Now the one I low formatted earlier started giving me errors again

[Pntgrd]

Right now I'm gonna let my system stay at the stable 450x8 for some Call of Duty 4 action! Imortant to remember using the system for what it's built for once in a while in between all the tweaking :P

Man, ain't that the truth