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

[vihit]

I just got this board to overclock a Q6600 that I had on MSI board. It was only mildly overclocked on the MSI to 2.7 ghz. I have been able to get my Q6600 to run stable at 3.4 ghz on the IP-35 Pro. However, I decided to only overclock to 3.2. I am a bit concerned about my temperatures. On idle, the cores run around 44-45 C according to Core Temp, and according to uGuru, the CPU is around 57-58 C. I let my PC run Prime95 overnight and had no errors. I forgot to run Core Temp while running Prime95 overnight

I decided to run Prime95 for a few minutes to see what happens. In approximately 5 minutes of Prime95, I got around 71-73 C per core on Core Temp. On uGuru, my temperature reached 81-83 C. Is this too hot for this processor? I have a CoolerMaster GeminII with two 120 mm Yate-Loon fans on it. I'm also using Arctic Cooling MX-2 as my TIM. I have access to a Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro and a CoolerMaster Hyper TX2. Would either one of these be better than the Geminii?

[Hodori58]

I just got this board to overclock a Q6600 that I had on MSI board. It was only mildly overclocked on the MSI to 2.7 ghz. I have been able to get my Q6600 to run stable at 3.4 ghz on the IP-35 Pro. However, I decided to only overclock to 3.2. I am a bit concerned about my temperatures. On idle, the cores run around 44-45 C according to Core Temp, and according to uGuru, the CPU is around 57-58 C. I let my PC run Prime95 overnight and had no errors. I forgot to run Core Temp while running Prime95 overnight

I decided to run Prime95 for a few minutes to see what happens. In approximately 5 minutes of Prime95, I got around 71-73 C per core on Core Temp. On uGuru, my temperature reached 81-83 C. Is this too hot for this processor? I have a CoolerMaster GeminII with two 120 mm Yate-Loon fans on it. I'm also using Arctic Cooling MX-2 as my TIM. I have access to a Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro and a CoolerMaster Hyper TX2. Would either one of these be better than the Geminii?

which bios version are you running? what heatsink are u running on the one that is getting those high temps?

[vihit]

which bios version are you running? what heatsink are u running on the one that is getting those high temps?

Bios 16 using the Geminii heatsink.

[Hodori58]

flash back to bios 14, the 16 has issues with the Q6600 and Q6700, i had the same problem, i re-seated my HSF like 4x , and by the 4th I read about the bios glitch and flashed it back to 14 and now my idle is 29 and load is 41C with no OC. try it.

[Ace-a-Rue]

overall show of performance for the Pro board with the 9800 GTX video card in Vista 64.

i was running a comparison between Gigabyte's X48 DDR3 board...BUT...i had a mismatch (giga scored lower) since i was using an E8500 on the giga board with a single drive operation...the Pro board has Raid 0.

going to pull the E8500 out of the giga board and place the QX9650 in along with the 9800 card to see where the difference falls (will install Vista 64)

for the meantime, here is how the Pro does with a 9800 card and Vista64 and SP1.

[orion23]

I don't know what's going on with my setup...

2X1GB Ballistix DDR2 1066mhz
Q6600 G0

9 X 435 and it will post usually with no issue.

however, the moment I touch any voltages other than CPU Voltage and DDR2 voltage, it fails to post.

So I cannot increase the MCH from 1.37 or 1.41V or any of the other voltages.

With my setup, what should most of my voltages be, besides CPU Voltage and DDR Voltage?

Thanks!

[vihit]

flash back to bios 14, the 16 has issues with the Q6600 and Q6700, i had the same problem, i re-seated my HSF like 4x , and by the 4th I read about the bios glitch and flashed it back to 14 and now my idle is 29 and load is 41C with no OC. try it.

I changed to the 14 bios, and the high temps I was getting before in the bios and uGuru have disappeared. Thanks for that suggestion. My Q6600 is at 3.4 ghz. Idle is around 32-35 C in uGuru. Cores are about 44-47 C in Core Temp. I've been running Prime95 for a couple hours now, and max temp in uGuru is 63 C so far. The cores are around 77-79 C. Are these temps typical for a Q6600 OC'ed to 3.4 ghz?

[strange|ife]

is it normal for the heat pipes and weird shaped copper things to be really hot to touch ?? I cant keep my finger on them for more than a few second as its that hot. yes I am overclocking.

thanks

yes, keep fingure off overclocked heat pipe

[Cob]

I changed to the 14 bios, and the high temps I was getting before in the bios and uGuru have disappeared. Thanks for that suggestion. My Q6600 is at 3.4 ghz. Idle is around 32-35 C in uGuru. Cores are about 44-47 C in Core Temp. I've been running Prime95 for a couple hours now, and max temp in uGuru is 63 C so far. The cores are around 77-79 C. Are these temps typical for a Q6600 OC'ed to 3.4 ghz?

Depends on which cooler you're using and the ambient temp of where you live.

But yes the Q6600's can get very hot under Prime95.

[vailr]

CPU-Z 1.45
http://www.majorgeeks.com/CPU-Z_d425.html

[Hodori58]

I changed to the 14 bios, and the high temps I was getting before in the bios and uGuru have disappeared. Thanks for that suggestion. My Q6600 is at 3.4 ghz. Idle is around 32-35 C in uGuru. Cores are about 44-47 C in Core Temp. I've been running Prime95 for a couple hours now, and max temp in uGuru is 63 C so far. The cores are around 77-79 C. Are these temps typical for a Q6600 OC'ed to 3.4 ghz?

dang those are high temps, u might want to test out some lower Cpu voltages and MB voltages for a better heat management, thats once its stable anyways. and the bios thing I was made aware from a post by Cob so thanks to him. My rig is only at 3.0 Ghz with 45C load, 58C-60C max cores when running P95 on Large FFTs, it idles at 29C now. Im using arctic cooling freezer with AS5, imma mess with the voltages for the lowest possible later but these settings right now are great 14+h no errors. I think imma try to go for 3.2 or possible the max on air of 3.6 once i find the time for it anyways. but G0 can run hot, it depends on your preference and how long u want the chip for. GL

[emoners]

how's this board handling Yorkies?

[loonym]

how's this board handling Yorkies?

Seems ok to me, x3360 crunching happily @4ghz bios 16b09

[Ace-a-Rue]

a nice chart done by Supershanks...data taken from my two PCMark2005 benches...one done on the IP35 Pro and one on the GA-X48T-DQ6 (ddr3)...all the add-in hardware and OS were identical...the only difference was board chipset and DDR2 vs. DDR3.

hard drive score is very high...this is because i used an Areca Raid 8X PCIe card

COMMONALITY:
Vista64 w/SP1
QX9650
9800GTX (same video driver)
Areca 1210 8X PCIe Raid card (has own processor and memory)
Raid 0 w/128K Stripe
2-250gb Seagate-16mb cache (single platters)

[MADMAX22]

Interesting, thats alot of more money for a 8.53% increase.

[Imitation]

Interesting, thats alot of more money for a 8.53% increase.

Yeah I agree, if I do any kind of incremental update this year it will most likely be to a DDR2 P45 board. And that's only if they can handle the 45nm quad's much better than this IP35. Maybe in summer to fall 09 will I think about a full upgrade with DDR3.

[loonym]

I suppose the real benefit is xfire support.

[Ace-a-Rue]

that is why the IP35 Pro is the best bang for the buck in the P35 performance category!..no wonder the IP35 Pro won Anandtech's "Gold" award for the best P35 board.

8.53% overall performance increase is a pretty good increase for upgrade boards...generally you are going to see around a 5% increase, and that stays true for the memory performnce going from the P35 to an X48....i did not go to an extreme mode with my memory...i approached memory timings more realistically with everyday application.

in video performance, the PCIe 2.0 spec appears to be showing its muscle....again, the card was not overclocked and PCIe bus was not overclocked

the higher hard drive score is probably reflective of running my Areca Raid 8x card in a full 16X speed PCIe slot compared to the Pro and other P35 boards having only the capability to run the 2nd PCIe 16x slot at 4x speed.

i ran the PCMark bench on the Giga board using the Intel Raid chipet and it had only a 28% increase over a single drive operation but was really under performing by a whopping minus 52% against the Areca Raid card...the Areca card has an almost 100% increase in performance over a single drive environment...this is your typical 7.2K rpm drive with 16mb of cache...Raptor's live in their own special category because of the 10K rotational platter speed....i wish i had two raptors to compare between two 7.2K to see what the difference was on the Areca card. (some day)

[demiurge]

I must give a big thumbs up for the IP35-Pro. I thought I was going to "upgrade" to a DFI LP LT P35 and clock my Q6600 higher, however not only did the DFI needed 1.4 VTT to be OCCT stable, it was still giving errors in FAH, in fact I was not able to complete any unit. Anyway back to the IP35-Pro, VTT back down to 1.2 and everything is smooth as silk again. The only fault I see in the IP35-Pro is the large vdroop, maybe one day I will be game enough to solder my board.

[gundamit]

that is why the IP35 Pro is the best bang for the buck in the P35 performance category!

As soon as I get my $70 rebate check from Abit (they have already confirmed receipt of my form) I would have to agree. Without the rebate I would have to give the bang/buck award to the Blood Iron.

IP35 mobo has been easy to work with and I would recommend it without reservation to most who want to build a single video card no game rig. I mated it to my lesser e8400 @4ghz for a game rig.

[MikalCarbine]

I shutdown my computer and took it back home from college last week. Before booting it up I cleaned it out with some compressed air (it was very dusty) and booted it up. To my dismay the bios diagnostic panel gave a C1 error. I was used to this happening after unplugging my computer for long amounts of time (it happened during winter break also).

I figured no biggie, cleared CMOS, put one stick of memory in dimm slot 4 and booted, same problem. I tried slot 1-4 alternating sticks between with no luck. I figured maybe the stock voltage is too low and/or my sticks are slowly dying. I ran to staples and got some POS Kbyte 512MB PC4200 stick just to get me able to get into BIOS. No luck. I've tried 2-6 hour CMOS clears and then a big 1.5 day CMOS clear after unplugging the power supply.

At this point I figured maybe something is shorting so I took out all my hardware and booted it on a box, same problem. I've tried different combinations of memory with no luck. I even tried a new PSU and video card...


Does anyone know whats going on?

[Ace-a-Rue]

did you pull the battery while clearing CMOS?

the only other thing to do is unplug everything from the board, memory, VC, drives and ATX power cord and the 12v supply to the cpu...leave the cpu in while doing this...leave it for 8 hours or so with battery out and CMOS in the clear mode.

do you have a different PSU to try?...the other thing to check is if your VC is working...try it in another rig if you have that capability.

tell us if this helps or does nothing?

[18 is # 1]

Anybody used this RAM with the Pro?

2Gb Kit (2x1Gb) PC2 5400 3-3-3-8 D9GMH $43
http://www.tankguys.com/product_info...oducts_id=1806

[new-b]

Anybody used this RAM with the Pro?

2Gb Kit (2x1Gb) PC2 5400 3-3-3-8 D9GMH $43
http://www.tankguys.com/product_info...oducts_id=1806

I used to run that mem before I switched to a 2x2gig kit, had no problems with them.

[MikalCarbine]

Turns out my memory is just freaking out. I purchased a cheapo 667mhz stick (found out 533 won't boot with this board) and it booted up, changed the voltages and timings bam works... but only with one stick. I guess my other stick died. I'm so sick of these ballistix.

How do Corsair Dominators PC6400 work with this?