Abit IP45 Pro image, spec and feedback of course !

[Ace-a-Rue]

the ip35-e is a good board.

[Heidfirst]

Massive Abit fan and I see this as encouraging in the industry. The board obviously has problems so they won't release it. The way it should be.

I don't see why or how you & tarantul jump to concluding that the board has problems?
I know of no evidence for that.

[Glow9]

Maybe they realized that fans suck and they are going to scrap them ha

[Ace-a-Rue]

if a delay has been built in i tell you right now it has to do with the bios and abit's obsession with locking the MCHBAR; that has implications of freezing certain settings like Performance level...the typical P35, X38/X48 boards dealt with PL of 6, 7, 8 or 9...now...i am seeing 11, 12, 13, 14 and 15 for overclocking success....my gut tells me it has to do with this as a minimum...i presume there is more.

[fatguy1992]

The board looks good, but i'm happy with my P5E

[Nelly]

I'll wait till the Intel Price drops come into effect i.e. July 20th >, I'll need a motherboard so I'm hoping it's released by then.

[Heidfirst]

Maybe they realized that fans suck and they are going to scrap them ha

IP45 Pro doesn't have any fans ...?

[Ace-a-Rue]

I'll wait till the Intel Price drops come into effect i.e. July 20th >, I'll need a motherboard so I'm hoping it's released by then.

hmmmm..do you think abit might be trying to coincide the release with the intel price drop?

[ChuckM]

hmmmm..do you think abit might be trying to coincide the release with the intel price drop?

Could be, but I believe they would still be better off getting the board out so you guys can start tweakin' on it first.

[Pntgrd]

I just wish, when it does finally come out, that it would have an Optical/In and an onboard Dolby Decoder. Then I could lose my X-Fi which I use for audio for my Xbox 360. One less PCI card.

[Nelly]

hmmmm..do you think abit might be trying to coincide the release with the intel price drop?

Well thats all I'm waiting for now, when I buy my Q9450/Q9550 I will have a new P45 motherboard one way or another Abit or no Abit.

And it just so happens Asus are not using soldered on bios chips with the Asus P5Q Deluxe, also it has two bios chips so if the first bios fails on an update it reverts to the backup so you can reflash, can even swap them both over to update both bios chips.

So cutting the Bulls***! first week in July? Week 26 which was 2nd week in July & well it's the 4th week in July next week which should be the imminent price drop of the Intel CPU's.

Asus, Gigabyte, MSI, Jetway, ECS, Foxxconn, DFI, Biostar spoilt for P45 chipset choice, where is Abit? yes thats right no where to be seen.

The rumors about Abit ceasing motherboard production not true, they havent even started yet I bet.

Anyone got any good jokes, apart from Abit?

[Ace-a-Rue]

i heard via some scuttle bud at another website that abit went from 4 bios engineers down to 2...sounds like they are in to austere times and therefore, board production dates are taking a hit.

you know china is hoarding all the oil and diesel for the olympics...prices will drop right after the olympics is over.

[dctokyo]

you know china is hoarding all the oil and diesel for the olympics...prices will drop right after the olympics is over.

I think you could be on to something, but I think that China is hoarding all the Abit motherboards, that`s why we are not seeing anything from them here

[Ace-a-Rue]

I think you could be on to something, but I think that China is hoarding all the Abit motherboards, that`s why we are not seeing anything from them here

i heard the hoarding rumor on the foxnews business channel...makes sense since they do not want anything to go wrong when they premiere their country as the host of the summer olympics....this is a big thing for them...monumental, in fact!

[Devastation]

[QUOTE=Ace-a-Rue;3147702]i heard via some scuttle bud at another website that abit went from 4 bios engineers down to 2...sounds like they are in to austere times and therefore, board production dates are taking a hit.



just like to say hi first ace i heard via abit tec that they got help outside abit with an independent with the bios as abit engineers could not fix the bios on two boards IX48-MAX and the IP45-Pro. if you want news on abit boards on their bios site two new bios is on their uk site IX38-GT3, IX48-GT3 and no bios for the IP45-pro or IX48-Max if they are going to release p45 the bios whould be on the site as first release. and hi to all on xtreme

[fireice2]

When is this comming out? I'm really disappointed with the local distributor of Abit. It used to be a best seller here but due to some bad business decisions its presence is hardly felt.

[Red Evil]

This takes far too long, sadly.

[Ace-a-Rue]

i heard via some scuttle bud at another website that abit went from 4 bios engineers down to 2...sounds like they are in to austere times and therefore, board production dates are taking a hit.

just like to say hi first ace i heard via abit tec that they got help outside abit with an independent with the bios as abit engineers could not fix the bios on two boards IX48-MAX and the IP45-Pro. if you want news on abit boards on their bios site two new bios is on their uk site IX38-GT3, IX48-GT3 and no bios for the IP45-pro or IX48-Max if they are going to release p45 the bios whould be on the site as first release. and hi to all on xtreme

thank you for the update...lets hope the outside bios engineer contractor can solve the IP45 Pro and IX48 Max problems.

any idea on when the IX48 GT3 (DDR3) will come out?

[Supershanks]

i heard via abit tec that they got help outside abit with an independent with the bios as abit engineers could not fix the bios on two boards IX48-MAX and the IP45-Pro. if you want news on abit boards on their bios site two new bios is on their uk site IX38-GT3, IX48-GT3 and no bios for the IP45-pro or IX48-Max if they are going to release p45 the bios whould be on the site as first release. and hi to all on xtreme

That ties in with Buff's reply here Buff is Moderator over on Universal abit USA Forums I wondered how he could be so upbeat about boards which frankly I thought were scrapped.

It does leave me with a nagging doubt about ongoing Abit Bios support.

Edit:
Abit IX38-GT3 In stock

[Ace-a-Rue]

you know, i am having a problem here!...i am trying to find the reason why abit is releasing an X38 chipset board even though it is DDR3

[Supershanks]

Well that one i would have thought is too late X48 still makes sense, better late than never , but the X38 is what about 8months behind original date.

[Ace-a-Rue]

Exactly!

[loonym]

Have to wonder what's really going on with abit. It's the nvidia chipset boards that are absent too. The IN9 32x max all but disappeared so I have to assume they're just getting rid of whatever existing stock there may be. And nothing around 780i or 790i. Then there's the intel line-up which of course should be the bread and butter. The models to choose from are getting less as existing stocks of those disappear too. They gave us the regurgitated p35 pro XE and there's really nothing else out there any more. If it's financial, not producing boards isn't the solution.

[Ace-a-Rue]

i guess that we wait and see what they do.

[Devastation]

you know, i am having a problem here!...i am trying to find the reason why abit is releasing an X38 chipset board even though it is DDR3

the two motherboards IX38-GT3 & IX48-GT3 are DDR3 up to 1333mhz and i have found out that the IP45 is out in the eu one or two weeks and the IX48-Max more like october thay are still having probs with the bios and IX38-GT3 & IX48-GT3 two to three weeks