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

[Id034]

Fun with my new processor:

mind if you share your uguru settings for 460?

those are great temps man, your apogee is making a difference here

[sonofander]

mind if you share your uguru settings for 460?

those are great temps man, your apogee is making a difference here

I had my vcore set to 1.5775, NB @ 1.52, SB @ 1.6 Everything else stock (excpet memory of course).

Whats funnt Is I was stable enough to run 3d mark, wprime, Super pi, and I even plyed Crysis for about an hour with no problems, but prime 95 failed immediately.

I've never experienced this before where a overclock felt so STABLE but failed p95 so quick. Usually p95 has been a btter benchmark of stability for me...

I wonder if there is some weird interaction between the new 9650s and p95???

[Ace-a-Rue]

i just got in the DFI LT X38 DDR2 board...going to start playing with that one...will let all you know later on tonight how that is going...going to try my 'G0' Q6600 on it first.

the only detractor for the board is that you can not mount the TRUE heatsink towards the rear case exhaust fan...you have to point it upwards towards the PSU (fan)...BUT...i have one of those Ultra 90 heatsinks to use or a Tuniq 120 if i want...the NB heatsink base is a little larger so it interferes with the heatpipes on the TRUE when trying to mount it to point to the rear.

Can't wait to hear how that goes! I've been eyeballing that board...

hey!...mid-term report, not finalized...SO FAR...the IP35 PRO is a BETTER board!...need to still mount my TRUE on the Q6600 which could do 3960 mhz and pass wPrime 1024M stability bench on the IP35 Pro board...so far, i have not found the right combination for the bios settings, which there are so many to set or adjust....probably i'm a little unfamiliar with DFI's way of doing business.

[Ace-a-Rue]

Hi there,

I've updated the original thread with the latest official drivers, latest bios & beta bios, more ram compatability, more cpu cooler comptability.

YEAH, i will second C-N's thank you...nice job keeping this thread current on the first page!

[sonofander]

hey!...mid-term report, not finalized...SO FAR...the IP35 PRO is a BETTER board!...need to still mount my TRUE on the Q6600 which could do 3960 mhz and pass wPrime 1024M stability bench on the IP35 Pro board...so far, i have not found the right combination for the bios settings, which there are so many to set or adjust....probably i'm a little unfamiliar with DFI's way of doing business.

Keep up the good work Ace! I love how you keep testing x38 boards against this one. I'm looking to move up, but till we find one that can compete with our P35 pro, I think I'll just stay right where I'm at...

So I'm still working on finding P95 stability on my 9650 so I scaled back my OC. Working on 4.3 now and finding that I need quite a bit of vcore to get it p95 stable



this seems to be ok... I just wish the vcore didn't have to be so high. I could get away with 4.3 at 1.4875 if I didn't care about prime 95...

[sonofander]

with these settings I can:

A. Run wPrime 1024 stability test as many times as I want (just went through 10 runs)
B. Run Super PI 32m test as many times as I want (just completed 5 runs)
C. Run 3DM06 CPU tests 1&2 looped forever and ever amen (15 runs before I quit)
D. Run Super PI 32M & wPrime 1024 test at same time
E. Run Crysis benchmark (looped 3 runs)
F. Play Crysis for 30 minutes
G. Type this message on Xtreme Systems Forums (for fun )

with these settings I cannot:

A. run Prime 95 for more than 5 seconds without one core failing


So my question is this:

Is "stable is as stable does"?
If I can do everything I want to do without issue, should I be happy with a rediculous overclock at decent vcore, or should I bang my head against the wall dropping OC and raising vcore until I find a setting within reason that will pass 8 hours of prime?

what do you guys think?

[Nosfer@tu]

Im going to DIE in a few min.
no matter what bios, I cant install uguru, and Setfsb dosent run.

[Ace-a-Rue]

i think your OS is probably hosed...are you using vista 32 or 64

[Ace-a-Rue]

with these settings I can:

A. Run wPrime 1024 stability test as many times as I want (just went through 10 runs)
B. Run Super PI 32m test as many times as I want (just completed 5 runs)
C. Run 3DM06 CPU tests 1&2 looped forever and ever amen (15 runs before I quit)
D. Run Super PI 32M & wPrime 1024 test at same time
E. Run Crysis benchmark (looped 3 runs)
F. Play Crysis for 30 minutes
G. Type this message on Xtreme Systems Forums (for fun )

with these settings I cannot:

A. run Prime 95 for more than 5 seconds without one core failing


So my question is this:

Is "stable is as stable does"?
If I can do everything I want to do without issue, should I be happy with a rediculous overclock at decent vcore, or should I bang my head against the wall dropping OC and raising vcore until I find a setting within reason that will pass 8 hours of prime?

what do you guys think?

stability is in the eye of the beholder...it is what you do that does not BSOD, freeze, programs close out on their own, get random re-boots or games drop back to the desktop...if you meet that criteria, it is a stable system.

[Nosfer@tu]

i think your OS is probably hosed...are you using vista 32 or 64

Found problem. Will state when competition ends

[scorpion]

ace should the file name M629BA_16.B04 or M629B_16.04

[scorpion]

when editing the runme.bat file

[Ace-a-Rue]

M629B_16.B04

only 8 alpha-numeric characters in front of the extension

[scorpion]

thanks ace,

[scorpion]

(ace what up with this )flash failure, no m629b_16.04 file or you may have not execute the exe. file to be a bin file yet.

[Id034]

So my question is this:

Is "stable is as stable does"?
If I can do everything I want to do without issue, should I be happy with a rediculous overclock at decent vcore, or should I bang my head against the wall dropping OC and raising vcore until I find a setting within reason that will pass 8 hours of prime?

what do you guys think?

Enough for me.
I think that's a pretty good overclock , i dont know how well are clocking those 9650 but i will keep those settings if my vcore <1,5 and my temps are <70 under load. maybe i'll finish the test with some x264 encoding... something quick like an anime chapter.
doing now a 10 loop of crysis cpu bench at 9X475 if it doesnt crash, i'll do a loop of 3dmark06, wprime, 4XsuperPi, encode a bleach chapter with megui and realanime6, and some pcmark05. that will be my " 24/7 low stability test "

[new-b]

(ace what up with this )flash failure, no m629b_16.04 file or you may have not execute the exe. file to be a bin file yet.

Should be m629b_16.B04.... make sure to rename the bios file itself to that as well.

[scorpion]

thanks new-b works great, uguru reporting wrong temps on cpu, idle at 49c on water.

[Ace-a-Rue]

thanks new-b works great, uguru reporting wrong temps on cpu, idle at 49c on water.

use coretemp to get a better readout of temps....also, use uguru to set all your voltages...bios setting is off for vcore and cpu vtt.

[Ace-a-Rue]

i want to tell all you guys that you made the best decision on buying the Pro board...i just finished (gave up) working on the DFI X38 board...it is well built but it doesn't have the overclocking abilities as the IP35 Pro.

i was under by 10 mhz on the FSB at default multi of 9 with the same processor that i used on the pro...DFI's board was best at default multi...it just got worse as i tried 8 multi...i couldn't get over 460 FSB where the Pro allowed me 485 FSB; all with the same hardware except for board!

[sonofander]

i want to tell all you guys that you made the best decision on buying the Pro board...i just finished (gave up) working on the DFI X38 board...it is well built but it doesn't have the overclocking abilities as the IP35 Pro.

i was under by 10 mhz on the FSB at default multi of 9 with the same processor that i used on the pro...DFI's board was best at default multi...it just got worse as i tried 8 multi...i couldn't get over 460 FSB where the Pro allowed me 485 FSB; all with the same hardware except for board!

So Ace, when do you get you x38 Quad GT back from RMA? Looking forward to you finishing your testing of that one... have you considered giving the p5e a shot?

C'mon man, I need you to find me my x38 board!
*sits back to drink coffee while someone else does all the work for him*


seriously though, this really is a great board! and thanks for all the hard work you put in Ace, know its not going unappreciated

[Ace-a-Rue]

not sure that i will get another IX38 board...will probably wait it out for the X48...someone told me that the P5E isn't any better off...the guy returned his P5E and he went back to his P35 board.

[Rofor]

Hi,

does the Xigmatek HDT-S1283 can be installed on the ip35-pro with vertical position without blocking the NB chipset heatsink?

Yepp, it's fine on the IP35-Pro here - not much room between them, but it works!

[dtube]

i want to tell all you guys that you made the best decision on buying the Pro board...i just finished (gave up) working on the DFI X38 board...it is well built but it doesn't have the overclocking abilities as the IP35 Pro.

i was under by 10 mhz on the FSB at default multi of 9 with the same processor that i used on the pro...DFI's board was best at default multi...it just got worse as i tried 8 multi...i couldn't get over 460 FSB where the Pro allowed me 485 FSB; all with the same hardware except for board!

Ace,
You're the second person that say the similar thing on the X38 board. My friend (used to be a reviewer at arstechnica) did a test on GigaByte X38 board and his conclusion is IP35 Pro is better. He said the only good about the X38 board is "burn a hole through my wallet".

[Daemonfly]

Since it seems that you basically have to do the heatpipe mod, etc... combined with the fact that I'm already 2-loop watercooling cpu/gpu/nb, I decided to continue that theme.

If anyone has noticed, these heatpipe systems aren't even copper, they're aluminum (with a copper (looking?) coating). I figured "screw it" and decided to just make a waterblock for the pwm. Also had a spare maze sitting around so popped a new lexan top on it and will finish it up for use as a SB block. So, the mobo will have PWM/NB/SB all watercooled, so I shouldn't have any issues there.

I still have to do a bit of work on the pwm lexan top to get it to fit (tad too wide, and missed a cap that interferes. Once it's all finished & looking acceptable, I'll post pics

Seeing as it's only 1 block needed, in a rather simple shape, it's too bad there are no other people making blocks for these, in numbers (unless I missed something).