ABIT IP35 Series

[brencat]

Originally posted by: Flessan
Just updated the topic summary since it was now outdated. My Pro arives Friday, and I'll have it paired with 2 Gig of Crucial Ballistix PC2-6400 CL4 DDR2 and a C2D E6600. I'm still running XP, so 2 Gigs should be good.

I'll try to get some info out Friday night on stable overclocks...but Saturday evening may be a bit more realistic .

No worries. Take your time...we want to see that 13 sec SuperPi

 

[Gary Key]

abit's pricing on the top IP35 board should drop to around $175 once supply is around. As far as the X38 goes, they will do two versions, a QuadGT for the under $200 crowd, and a MAX board for the over $200 crowd. The main differences will be in overclocking potential and options, but I think abit listened to the market this time by introducing a X38 board that will not cost a fortune yet still offer very good performance.

 

[Heidfirst]

Originally posted by: Gary Key
The main differences will be in overclocking potential and options,

I understood that it was mainly DDR2 vs DDR3 (& PCB colour )?

 

[Gary Key]

Originally posted by: Heidfirst

Originally posted by: Gary Key
The main differences will be in overclocking potential and options,

I understood that it was mainly DDR2 vs DDR3 (& PCB colour )?

There might be also be a high end DDR2 board plus the high end DDR3 in the MAX series, depends on the market, either way at least they are offering a choice segmented by price/features instead of just pricing the DDR2/DDR3 boards the same. I was told the Quad series would not clock as high, how much difference that is or what high equates to is up for debate right now.

 

[Flessan]

UPS just arrived! I now have everything I need, except the new hard drive. Buy.com sent me a seagate box that had the right model number on it (SATA), but the drive inside was UATA. I RMA'd, but in the mean time I'll just use my old ATA drive since the Pro has one ATA port on it.

I should have some results later today. (Fingers crossed).

Oh, and this was interesting...

Boxed Intel Processor Installation Instructions
http://www.intel.com/go/integration

Note: Installation instructions are not part of the Three Year Limited Warranty.

Don't lose those instructions...they will not be replaced!!!

 

[Flessan]

I put the whole thing together yesterday and it ran flawlessly first try. That's saying a lot for me, since I would usually have at least one of the panel connections backwards.

I haven't pushed it yet, but did take the E6600 to 3 Ghz without any voltage changes to the CPU. I noticed in CPU-Z that the processor speed keeps fluctuating, so there must be some kind of power save thing enabled. I'll have to dig through the bios when I get home from work .

I'm using the antec ninehundred case...and I'm a bit concerned that the side of the case won't go back on with the thermalright ultra 120 Extreme mounted on the CPU. I haven't tried yet, but it looks pretty iffy.

I do have a question for you all. Do you think I should be pulling air away from the heat sink or pushing air through it? Remember, this is a side mounted fan. Thanks.

 

[bigsnyder]

Originally posted by: Gepidae
Someone give me a recap- whats the diff bwt the p5k-e and p5k again? The price of the ip35 pro looks decent. Now coupled with some reviews I think its going to be that or the p5k as my board of choice. My fingers are getting itchy to buy one

There are several differences between the vanilla P5K and the P5K-E. Think of the P5K-E
as the deluxe model with a single gigabit nic connection (deluxe also features fancier cooling
on the board).

 

[Flessan]

My preliminary O/C results for the ABIT IP35 Pro are in the CPU/Processors and Overclocking forum.

 

[newschool]

Originally posted by: mojolo
now the question is whether to jump on the IP35 Pro or wait for the ASUS P5K-E, which should come in at around the same pricepoint (or go for a Gigabyte).

feature-wise, the IP35 Pro and P5K-E will be quite comparable though the P5K-E only has one NIC compared with two for the ABIT.

the IP35 Pro's chipset heatsink system is a little fancier than the P5K-E's, but not by much. i think they're both copper.

wow ihv just created a new thread with exactly the same mobo questionning as you do..

do you actually have found noticable differences between the p5k-e the ip35 and the gigabyte p35c-ds3r or ds4?

 

[newschool]

oh and btw, im in the same situation as many of you guys : I bought crucial d9s and I am still looking for a mb But what I have actually decided for my rig is to get a P35 board with an E4300 and DDR2. DDR3 wont be competitive to DDR2 until a long time (just remember DDR vs DDR2), and the cheap E4300 oced at 3.4G will be good untill I get those new 45nm Penryns
Thats what I think is the cheapest midrange evolutive solution.

 

[tsowen]

Fry's has Abit IP35-E for $124.99 with $30 rebate Text. I am thinking about getting one. Does IP35-E have the same overclock capability as IP35 Pro?

 

[Heidfirst]

we don't know at the moment as no-one has got 1, tried & reported back ...

 

[bortek]

Hi,

I plan to buy one of IP-35 series MB for my media_center/GamePC. I have 300 Watt fanless PSU that I want to use to drive this MB. I search all over the net for IP-35 manuals but could not find any. ABIT does not have it on their website either.

Can someone who ones one of IP-35s please look into the manual and read out whats the minimum PSU (in WATTS) needed to drive these motherboards?

It usually says it in the chapter of the manual dedicatated to PSU connection.

Thanks in advance.



Regards,
/Boris

 

[aka1nas]

Originally posted by: tsowen
Fry's has Abit IP35-E for $124.99 with $30 rebate Text. I am thinking about getting one. Does IP35-E have the same overclock capability as IP35 Pro?

From the XS thread it looks like it can hit decent FSB speeds still, but there is an extra IC on the Pro board that contributes to that model hitting high FSb speeds.

 

[Heidfirst]

SerpentRoyal here has an IP35-E doing iirc 488fsb stable.
If by an extra IC you mean the uGuru chip that doesn't actually help the board run higher fsb but it improves hardware monitoring/fan control etc. & allows for overclocking in Windows using the OcGuru utility (similar to something like clockgen).

 

[SerpentRoyal]

Originally posted by: bortek
Hi,

I plan to buy one of IP-35 series MB for my media_center/GamePC. I have 300 Watt fanless PSU that I want to use to drive this MB. I search all over the net for IP-35 manuals but could not find any. ABIT does not have it on their website either.

Can someone who ones one of IP-35s please look into the manual and read out whats the minimum PSU (in WATTS) needed to drive these motherboards?

It usually says it in the chapter of the manual dedicatated to PSU connection.

Thanks in advance.



Regards,
/Boris

The fanless PSU may be marginal if you plan to overclock. Board may boot with a quality 300 at stock speed. My E4300 @ 3.44GHz is already pulling +190 actual watts with one HDD and floppy under Orthos (Antec SP350 with 10A and 15A 12V rails). Therefore, I would look for a PSU with at least 15 continuous amps at the 12V rail.

There is NO FTC standard with PSU. A quality 350 watt PSU is equivalent to a no-name 500
watt unit. Abit recommends ATX12V 2.0 with minimum 400W power output.

My board is stable up to 488MHz (possible 3.9GHz with 8x multi CPU). This E6320 appears to top out around 490MHz FSB. I wouldn't attempt to overclock any C2D with a 7x multiplier...too much stress on the RAM. 3.6GHz is generally the ceiling for an air-cooled rig.

 

[Aznguy1872]

nice! I am actually planning on getting the abit ip35 pro also at the egg. 185 is a pretty good price. But what ram are most of you using that are overclocking? DDR2800 or ddr2 1066?

 

[SerpentRoyal]

400MHz RAM will be able to take an 8x multi CPU to 3.2GHz. Most quality DDR2 800 modules will do 440MHz with 2.0-2.1Vdimm.

 

[Quadratix]

Anyone know if radial heatsinks ( blue orb, Zalman 7700 ) fit over the NB heatsink ?

I know the giant towers have no problem and the Zalman 9500 fits... just curious about the radials.

 

[Pharmdeity]

Originally posted by: Aznguy1872
nice! I am actually planning on getting the abit ip35 pro also at the egg. 185 is a pretty good price. But what ram are most of you using that are overclocking? DDR2800 or ddr2 1066?

I've got the pro version and an early 6300 cpu (7x multiplier) with 2x1 gb of corsair ballistix rated at 1066mhz. I have it running at 3.5 ghz (500mhz fsb) for weeks without problem and this keeps the ram under 1066 mhz at stock voltage + 2%. With the price of ram so low right now I certainly recommend the 1066 speed. I'm cooling with the Thermalright 120 ultra extreme. I'm sure I could get the chip and ram to run faster but I'd have to increase the voltages, tweek for hours, and I'm just not that dedicated to it.

Hope that helps.