Its arrived Abit IP-35 Pro

[Azza]

Here it is.

I will start the install in a bit.

Sorry about pics ive done them all with the flash on and ive got hardly any battery power left.

Front of the box

Back of the box

Inside the box we have two small boxes.

One contains 6 x SATA cables, 1 x IDE calbe, 1 x floppy cable and one of them back plate USB thingys with firewire

The other box contains the manuals, driver CD and the back IO shield

Lift up some cardboard and there is the board

The board itself

The 6 x SATA ports

The back of the motherboard

The CPU socket & mosfet cooler & NB cooler/top right corner

SB cooler & SATA ports/bottom left corner

The PCI slots & PCI-E slots & NB cooler/top left corner

The RAM slots/bottom right corner

An arty shot of the NB cooler with the onboard USB in view

This is the best layed out motherboard I have ever owned. With the SATA ports all edge facing and the onboard USB ports all at the edge of the board. Also nearly everything on the board is labeled with what it is.

I will get some more pics when i can get more batteries.

 

[Ham]

Looks good. I know kemp really likes his. Gota say they got a a hell of a price point too!

 

[Azza]

Im still getting to grips with this BIOS. The whole RAM thing is confusing me nothing like my 680i board. Think it needs a BIOS update aswell.

Running CPU @ 3.4Ghz currently. Orthos stable Coretemp never goes over 41C.

Will hopefully be getting a E6850 for my birthday on the 28th.

 

[MADMAX22]

I love mine so far. On my phase it runs great with my 6600 at 500x8 with 4 gigs of ram at 500mhz 4-4-4-12. I must say this board goes to 500 very easy and it tops my cpu out at its fsb wall of 540 without problem also.

One thing I do suggest is taking the stock cooling off and make sure its contacting everything correctly. Mine only touched about half of the pwm's. Its the only problem I see with it so far.

I would definatly flash the latest beta bios B04 I think it is. You can get it at the abit forums in the bios section.

Also very important when you flash it you need to change a few things to get it to flash the boot block, read this thread at like post 49 or so and follow those instructions. Link

Other then that you should be really happy with this thing.

 

[mVp24]

Nice pics!

Even nicer LA Lakers flag

 

[MADMAX22]

Another thing with this mobo the uguru (make sure you have the latest one) reads the vcore dead on. I checked it with a multimeter and idle and load it is dead on. There is some vdroop for what you set in bios but from idle to load it doesnt droop that bad at all.

The ram voltage is a little higher then what uguru reads so take that into consideration. ALso uguru doesnt show it but when the ram is put under a full load the voltage does go up a bit so it has like a oposite vdroop on the ram, kind of like a vup or something. Its not by too much but it does go up a bit.

Here are a few pics of some ocing I have done with mine. Now this is with vista 64 bit so the super pi runs are a little slower then what you would expect (actually a big bit slower). All screenies are either with 4x1gb of the ballistic 8500 tracers or with 2x1gb. Check the memset for how much in each one.

I also have some 1t runs that I could post if you want as the latest beta bios allows it to run 1t allthough I didnt see to big a performance increase at all. But I got two sticks running 534mhz with 1t at 4-4-4-12

 

[Rastalovich]

Thanx for the hardcore pics guys

A mobo to keep an eye on.

 

[FragTek]

Looks like a pretty good offering from Abit. They seem to have kept the caps a little bit back from the socket which makes it a bit easier for insulating on phase. Nothing beats digital PWM's for phase though, yum.

 

[MADMAX22]

Sorry another picture but I jsut wanted to show stability with 4x1gb sticks of crucial ballsitics 8500 at 500fsb. This is under phase so the cpu is running nice and cold.

 

[ichiban]

quick question, does this board support the penryn processor? going to order this board on monday as its time to move to intel with the price drops on the cpu's

 

[darkorb]

why in CPU-z its 4ghz, and in orthos is 4.5ghz

 

[MADMAX22]

because I am running a multi of 8 instead of 9 so 500x8 is 4ghz but orthos doesnt recognize a change in multi so it thinks its 500x9 4.5ghz.

 

[chudley]

I think it will be future proof, hope so mine turns up tomorrow it is .35 after all.

I have a question though did you have any problems with the installation, I am changing from Opty144 to E6750 and this board, SATA problems is my main concern.

 

[MADMAX22]

Just update the bios first thing and you should be good. I am running raid10 with vista 64 home premium with 4x250g WD HDD's and didnt have any issues at all.

 

[chudley]

Roger, cheers it turned up today but my wife says no can do until my birthday, can still download the bios in preparation or is it a live update?

 

[yardi4life]

Bios settings..

MADMAX22, can please post the relevant setting you used to achieve the OC? thanks in advance.