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

[Orbitech]

Edit sry wrong thread..

[steve30x]

I hope one of you guys can help me here. I got an IP35 Pro and a Q6600. now I Have 3 different programs that can take temps. I had Core temp running at first but I was getting weird temperature readings. On core temp its reading 2 cores as 36 celcius and two at 42 celcius. So I tried everest and I got the same reading. So I then ran Speedfan and its reading all cores at 21 celcius.

Ive tried Bios 16 B04 , 16 B03 and im now on biow 14 again. So is there something wrong with the temperature readings or is my CPU running hot. Also I am using wattercooling on my CPU and I am only at 3ghz oc with the cpu at 1.4v.

how come when Ive asked for help Ive been ignored each time?

[Ace-a-Rue]

Alright Ace-a-Rue, updated my sig, updated Bios. First tried in windows and Comp froze and programming DMI 25% I was like Fu**!! waited 5 min hoping it would finish, had to reset the comp and to my surprise it worked like nothing happened. So then i had to learn how to flash in USB. Did it and now im on 16.04 and OC is exactly same. I have not gotten it to 4.35 but that was with 1.55volts in cpuz. Ok now i have a few questions about this Motherboard
Temprature PWM, ON load it gets all the way to 55c. I put a fan on it and its at 48c. Is that still too high and could that be whats cousing low OC?

what is your workable FSB/MHZ (stable using wPrime 1024M stability bench) for your E8400?

your PWM temps appear ok but you only have 2 cores...did you do the heatpipe mod?...if not, i recommend doing it...i remember one poster saying his board was acting funky until he did the heatpipe mod..his system and PWM temps appeared normal without the mod; so you can not really tell if you have a mediocre chip or it is the board that is holding you back in relation to heat issues.

what is the VID for your E8400?

i am trying to find if there is a relation between real low VID's and whether that correlates to a so, so overclocker like my 9650, which has a 0.9625v VID...my 9650 will do stock speed and wPrime 1024M stability bench at 1.03 vcore...see if you chip will do 3ghz at 1.03 vcore...i had EIST and C1E disabled for this test.

How come Power saving feature don't work in this motherboard? When Idle Multiplier doesn't drop to 6 and neither does voltage. I've just built 2 other systems and it works on both of those. I'd like to save energy as my comp is probably 50% Idling/browsing.

you should have EIST and C1E enabled in order for the power saving feature of the processor to work...BUT...that will defeat any meaningful overclock which you are trying to attain...EIST and C1E can support a low to medium overclock but not a high overclock.

How hot can i push Penryn for no damage to happen?

did you mean to say a Wolfdale?

any vcore above default is going to shorten the life of the processor...you just have to determine how long you want to keep the processor before upgrading with regards to how much vcore you are comfortable with.

that said, i would think anything above 1.5(ish) range can or will seriously shorten the life of the CPU....i would stay at 1.55v as the max vcore for long term use...i've tried higher but only for short periods just to see if the overclock could be sustained and how much heat was produced....that was on my 1st 9650...the 2nd 9650 has severe limitations when going above 4ghz...heat produced and current draw are into the stratosphere.

Any More tips to get this CPU to 4.5 without crazy Volts to cpu?

if the chip was an excellent overclocker, it wouldn't need very high vcore.

Intel E8400
Abit P35PRO 1.1
G.SKILL 4GB(2 x 2GB) DDR2 1000
EVGA 8800GTS (92)
RAID0 W / 2x 500GB 720011 Seagate 32mb OC to 10K RPM
* All WATER cooled by the Best there is*
Got you on my hard drive OC

EDIT:...how do you make your seagates 7200.11 drives overclock to 10K RPM drives?

[deathman20]

how come when Ive asked for help Ive been ignored each time?

Not sure man. I never delt with quads so can't say.

[steve30x]

No problem man. Im just wondering if the temps are wrong or if I have something done wrong with my watercooling.

[deathman20]

Got my E8400 yesterday up and running with the Beta 16.04 bios. Bios 14 does work but only issue with it is that tempatures are really screwed with it. Beta 16.04 is ok with tempature readings but its still messed up.

4.05Ghz w/ 1.37V Bios (1.21V CPU-z which I've found in the past with my E6400 is almost dead on for proper voltage reading amazingly). I get roughly 50-52C Load temps.

My CPU last night was testing at 1.35V Bios (1.19V CPU-z) and failed after 1 hour but not sure if it was CPU voltage or if it was the northbridge voltage that was causing the issue so I raised both and ran fine. Results below.

[aoch88]

Thank GOD I have a fellow mate with IP35 PRO + BIOS 14 and screwed up temps. I'm getting dumb temps with mine too so I'll update to Beta 04 in a bit.

[jnky_boy]

Hei all, what's the difference between these versions of the mobo(1; 1.0; 1.1)?! Some say 'I have IP35pro Snake' - what does it mean? Shuold i ask for that info, when i purchase it next month?!

[georgesod]

memory will do better with beta 16.b03 as long as you are using a 65nm processor.

No it won't. I've tried them all and my memory which is rated at 1200 with 2.2v (transcend axeram) stops at 560 with all the dividers and voltages

[jnky_boy]

never used more than rated 2.2v...

The guy wrote this:
'After 3 months of using Crucial Ballistix Tracer 4Gb @ 1066, 2.2v, active cooled, only ONE of FOUR modules survived, booting 900MHz at most ....'
His sign says:
"Q6600 G0 @3.65Ghz on Air | ASUS Maximus Formula | 4GB Crucial Ballistix Tracers PC-8500 (Corsair Air Cooled)| XFX 8800GTX XXX | X-Fi Platinum Fatality Champion | 150GB WD Raptor + 320GB Seagate SATA II | Benq 1655 | Corsair HX620W PSU | 21" Samsung SyncMaster 215tw |" ,
if that matters.
In the other forum they comment more on that ram, but it's a pity, isn't it?! They also say:
"Some test had been made, on modules based on Micron chips, and there is no evidence that there are bad batches, based on these chips" or something like this. The Ballistix are Micron D9 based!
They had the info from another thread here in the XtremeSys forum.
However, let's not write about these Ballistix any more - after all, the thread is about the Abit ip35Pro mobo!

[Ace-a-Rue]

No it won't. I've tried them all and my memory which is rated at 1200 with 2.2v (transcend axeram) stops at 560 with all the dividers and voltages

i was stopped short of my ddr2 specs by about the same...some boards are better to tweaking memory...DFI has a gazillion tweaks in the memory section which can possibly get you close to maximum or over it....this board does have its limitations but for the PRICE, you really can't go wrong.

[tripleflip18]

Ace-a-Rue

The absolute max FSB and MHZ i had yesterday was 495x9 with Vcore of 1.6, temps in guru showed 50c but they're probably wrong. And that wasn't stable. Max stable i was able to get is 4.25Mhz at about 1.54

Again memory is not a bottleneck, yesterday i booted up 500x6 and memory was fine, so is the front side bus i guess

I really can't do the heatpipe mode since its so difficult to work in this case and i would take me half/day to take out/put back in all the stuff in the case

How can i find out VID? I see people have vid in the coretemp but i got vista x64 and its not working so any other way?

I have EIST and C1E Enabled Right now, running it everything stock but with manual settings, 334x9 With core voltage 1.15 it ran orthos all night so its stable, but once again EIST and C1E are not working. Its not dropping the multiplier

How can i make Vcore lower then lowest? cause the lowest i can get is 1.15 in CPUZ

I did mean to say Wolfdale


And thats just a joke about 10k hard drives hehe

[Ace-a-Rue]

Got my E8400 yesterday up and running with the Beta 16.04 bios. Bios 14 does work but only issue with it is that tempatures are really screwed with it. Beta 16.04 is ok with tempature readings but its still messed up.

4.05Ghz w/ 1.37V Bios (1.21V CPU-z which I've found in the past with my E6400 is almost dead on for proper voltage reading amazingly). I get roughly 50-52C Load temps.

My CPU last night was testing at 1.35V Bios (1.19V CPU-z) and failed after 1 hour but not sure if it was CPU voltage or if it was the northbridge voltage that was causing the issue so I raised both and ran fine. Results below.

any difference in voltage reading when using CPUz 1.42 version?

i see your VID is below 1.0v...i was wondering what is your max overclock at 1.45 actual vcore and how much heat (core & PWM) does it produce when you run wPrime 1024M stability bench.

[Ace-a-Rue]

Ace-a-Rue

The absolute max FSB and MHZ i had yesterday was 495x9 with Vcore of 1.6, temps in guru showed 50c but they're probably wrong. And that wasn't stable. Max stable i was able to get is 4.25Mhz at about 1.54

Again memory is not a bottleneck, yesterday i booted up 500x6 and memory was fine, so is the front side bus i guess

I really can't do the heatpipe mode since its so difficult to work in this case and i would take me half/day to take out/put back in all the stuff in the case

How can i find out VID? I see people have vid in the coretemp but i got vista x64 and its not working so any other way?

I have EIST and C1E Enabled Right now, running it everything stock but with manual settings, 334x9 With core voltage 1.15 it ran orthos all night so its stable, but once again EIST and C1E are not working. Its not dropping the multiplier

How can i make Vcore lower then lowest? cause the lowest i can get is 1.15 in CPUZ

I did mean to say Wolfdale


And thats just a joke about 10k hard drives hehe

not sure how to get VID reading in vista64.

try setting your vcore to 'auto' in the bios with EIST and C1E enabled at stock speed...then run wPrime 1024M bench to see what CPUz or Uguru reports your vcore....also, report what idle vcore is at.

[leo5111]

anyone know of a temperature monitoring program works with this board that you can have it display temps in tray like systool does?

[tripleflip18]

anyone know of a temperature monitoring program works with this board that you can have it display temps in tray like systool does?

Speed Fan, Its about 4-5c higher then Guru

[deathman20]

any difference in voltage reading when using CPUz 1.42 version?

i see your VID is below 1.0v...i was wondering what is your max overclock at 1.45 actual vcore and how much heat (core & PWM) does it produce when you run wPrime 1024M stability bench.

Not sure, I can surely try it at home. I was using 1.41 before I switched to 1.43, and it was missing some information in there so really didn't take a look before I moved up.

Yup my VID is 0.975V. When you mean actual do you mean CPU-z read or Bios set voltage? I haven't taken it past 1.37V Bios (1.21V CPU-z) yet, and plan on actually trying to drop it now that I figured that my northbridge wasn't recieving enough voltage for me to run higher clocks. I'm not sure I want to crank my voltage up much past 1.4V currently til I get an actual real bios for my board just to make sure Im reading my proper temps.

I can't read my PWM temps at all since I don't know of a program that can read that in Vista 64-bit. Might work if I go into disabled signed driver mode but I do not launch Vista that way.

[tripleflip18]

not sure how to get VID reading in vista64.

try setting your vcore to 'auto' in the bios with EIST and C1E enabled at stock speed...then run wPrime 1024M bench to see what CPUz or Uguru reports your vcore....also, report what idle vcore is at.

Everything Auto, Voltages and Clock, EIST and C1E still not throttling down. Like i said i'd like this feature because at least 50-75% of the time computer is in idle.

Anyone with E8400 Tried EIST and C1E and found it NOT working?

Everything Stock in Load its 1.13vcore and totally Stable. I wish i Could go lower but Bios won't let me, my older P956 DS3 let me chose any voltage and im almost certain chip would be able to go lower. Are there any hidden options in this motherboard that you can enable with like CTRL + F1?

[deathman20]

Everything Auto, Voltages and Clock, EIST and C1E still not throttling down. Like i said i'd like this feature because at least 50-75% of the time computer is in idle.

Anyone with E8400 Tried EIST and C1E and found it NOT working?

Everything Stock in Load its 1.13vcore and totally Stable. I wish i Could go lower but Bios won't let me, my older P956 DS3 let me chose any voltage and im almost certain chip would be able to go lower. Are there any hidden options in this motherboard that you can enable with like CTRL + F1?

Yeah I got no speedstep at all with mine either.

As well my lowest set voltages I can pick is 1.2V bios (1.06V CPU-z) which sucks since heck my VID is 0.975V so surely it could be lower if needed. I know one of my older boards could go nice and low. Wish I had the option still to do it, think it was my Asus P5B-Deluxe that could go down to 1.1V at least selectable in Bios.

[tripleflip18]

Yeah I got no speedstep at all with mine either.

As well my lowest set voltages I can pick is 1.2V bios (1.06V CPU-z) which sucks since heck my VID is 0.975V so surely it could be lower if needed. I know one of my older boards could go nice and low. Wish I had the option still to do it, think it was my Asus P5B-Deluxe that could go down to 1.1V at least selectable in Bios.

My Old DS3 could go down all the way to like .8 in bios. Is this accross all the cpus (unable to select low vcore) or just Wolfdales?

[deathman20]

My Old DS3 could go down all the way to like .8 in bios. Is this accross all the cpus (unable to select low vcore) or just Wolfdales?

Not sure, think 1.325V was the lowest I could go with my E6400 but my VID was 1.35V on my board. So maybe its set by the VID number sets lowest voltage some how?

[furballi]

Everything Auto, Voltages and Clock, EIST and C1E still not throttling down. Like i said i'd like this feature because at least 50-75% of the time computer is in idle.

Anyone with E8400 Tried EIST and C1E and found it NOT working?

Everything Stock in Load its 1.13vcore and totally Stable. I wish i Could go lower but Bios won't let me, my older P956 DS3 let me chose any voltage and im almost certain chip would be able to go lower. Are there any hidden options in this motherboard that you can enable with like CTRL + F1?

Disconnect power from PSU. Remove CMOS battery. Clear CMOS for 30 minutes. Reboot and load Optimized Default. Make sure Windows is set to use Miniminal power mode (Balance mode with Vista) and you have installed the Intel chipset drivers.

[georgesod]

Well the last official bios was 14 at 09/06/07. And there was only 4 of them. I think abit sucks in this matter. I e-mailed them twice and i believe i'm one among many. Abit you can keep ignoring us

[scorpion]

Originally Posted by steve30x
I hope one of you guys can help me here. I got an IP35 Pro and a Q6600. now I Have 3 different programs that can take temps. I had Core temp running at first but I was getting weird temperature readings. On core temp its reading 2 cores as 36 celcius and two at 42 celcius. So I tried everest and I got the same reading. So I then ran Speedfan and its reading all cores at 21 celcius.

Ive tried Bios 16 B04 , 16 B03 and im now on biow 14 again. So is there something wrong with the temperature readings or is my CPU running hot. Also I am using wattercooling on my CPU and I am only at 3ghz oc with the cpu at 1.4v dude if you look back one page you would see that i did answer you,anyway uguru temps are off about 10to12c i use CPUID HwMonitor , my temps 31,31,33,33.

[scorpion]

steve30x, sorry about the post mess up.