**Official ABIT IX38 QuadGT Review/Overclock/Guide Thread**

[jcool]

Just curious, but why does everyone here treat the IX38 QuadGT as if it were the succesor or some clone of the IP35? I think it's more identical to the previous QuadGT, especially the PWM area and bios are 100% identical to my AB9 QuadGT. So I'd say it's the AB9 with a new chipset - therefore no Vdroop issue (IP35) but hot phase chips (--> previous QuadGT) and major problems with initial bios (--> also previous QuadGT)
But knowing how great the old QuadGT finally turned out be, I can't wait till they get bios 12 or 13 out - just hoping they're gonna be a lot quicker this time than they were with the old one...

[Ace-a-Rue]

Just curious, but why does everyone here treat the IX38 QuadGT as if it were the succesor or some clone of the IP35? I think it's more identical to the previous QuadGT, especially the PWM area and bios are 100% identical to my AB9 QuadGT. So I'd say it's the AB9 with a new chipset - therefore no Vdroop issue (IP35) but hot phase chips (--> previous QuadGT) and major problems with initial bios (--> also previous QuadGT)
But knowing how great the old QuadGT finally turned out be, I can't wait till they get bios 12 or 13 out - just hoping they're gonna be a lot quicker this time than they were with the old one...

the IP35 boards were the successor to the P965 chipset which includes your AB9 QuadGT...i had that board and it had droop too...if you didn't have droop on your AB9 QuadGT feel very, very lucky because the droop is part of intel's architecturer board design.

[jcool]

the IP35 boards were the successor to the P965 chipset which includes your AB9 QuadGT...i had that board and it had droop too...if you didn't have droop on your AB9 QuadGT feel very, very lucky because the droop is part of intel's architecturer board design.

Of coure it droops a bit, but thats okay as you say, it's even Intel spec. Mine droops aboput 0,03V with my B3 Quad which is perfectly fine - on IP35 this would be at least 0,08..
And that was my point, the IX38 doesn't droop that much because it is actually the succesor of the P965 QuadGT, not the IP35
Gonna have one here for testing by Monday next week, I sure hope they keep working on these bios files...

[Ace-a-Rue]

Of coure it droops a bit, but thats okay as you say, it's even Intel spec. Mine droops aboput 0,03V with my B3 Quad which is perfectly fine

- on IP35 this would be at least 0,08..

my AB9 QuadGT drooped more than yours...you should feel very lucky for so little droop...my QuadGT (965) was about 0.08v under P95 load with about 0.04v in idle...my IP35 Pro is the same.

And that was my point, the IX38 doesn't droop that much because it is actually the succesor of the P965 QuadGT, not the IP35
Gonna have one here for testing by Monday next week, I sure hope they keep working on these bios files...

now, that is a lot of BS you just put out....image redacted from anandtech website.

http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets...oc.aspx?i=2993

[strange|ife]

bummer these x38's arent as killer as we hoped.

[nordien]

I am testing the 12B02 beta bios. While i didn't get a higher fsb overclock on my E6600 i did see the vcore going down from 1.44v to 1.41v, so far 6 hours prime stable. With the 11 bios it would fail prime..

4*490 = 3430 mhz @ 1.41v

[jcool]

now, that is a lot of BS you just put out....image redacted from anandtech website.

Oh c'mon I'm not that stupid
'course I know that officially, the X38 replaces the P35. I was just speaking in terms of layout, power circuitery, Bios,.. and all the other things the "old" and "new" QuadGT have in common.
Sorry to hear your AB9 QuadGT had that much droop though, I know quite a few people who didn't have more droop than 0,04 - so maybe yours was faulty...

cheers