Abit IP35-E and E2180 compatibility?

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I had ordered these parts off a competitor site a while ago.

However it was only a month ago when I could build up.

I couldn't get it to post, thought it might the mobo that was faulty. RMA'd both mobo processor, board was deemed faulty and processor was fine. Was then sent replacement motherboard, and guess what same scenario.

Checked Abit's site, and the E2180 is the only processor that isn't on the support list...which is weird, same architecture n' all I think. I had 2 other E2180's sitting around, tested them and got same issue. Tested all 3 E2180's on a DS3 board and they worked (lol). This seemed very strange to me that a new P35 board seemingly doesn't support the newer processor, but an older mobo does.

Turns out the original mobo I RMA'd may have been fine, just put mobo in test rig with E2180 and fail. Try E2180 in another setup, works fine. And then just replace my motherboard.

What I'm asking is, does anybody know for sure that E2180 is NOT compatible with the IP35-E?
 
I am running an Abit IP35 (not the IP35-E) and E2180. I am sure that I have read somewhere on this forum that booting problems can occur with the default DDR2 voltage, hence the DDR2 Voltage has to be jacked up to around 2 volts.

The one BIG problem that I suffer is if the BIOS is changed and the system refuses to boot, then I have to keep on clearing the CMOS. Concequently I have now made up a link lead using the cable and 3 pin plug from an old CPU fan, so that I can clear the CMOS without haveing to delve inside the PC.
 
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kenofstephen said:
IP35-E is not a good board, it has a lot of bugs.

and overclocking performance is veryveryvery FAIR...
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I don't think it has a lot of bugs, it's 1 of Anandtech's favourites for a cheap P35 & is 500fsb only fair?
It's better than the Gigabyte P35-DS3L.
 
kenofstephen said:
500FSB is veryveryveryvery easy for P35 chipset. come on.....
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it's also at the top end of where it's best to run it due to straps, latencies etc. & there are several P35s that won't do it. Very high fsb is more about bragging rights than anything else plus you'll need better cooling to run there continuously not to mention a CPU that will do 500fsb +.
99.99% of people don't need any more.

It's a £60 mobo at the end of the day.
 
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P35-DS3R? mine is perfectly stable upto 505MHz and I was ok at 515MHz but I'd get the odd reboot - only 1 maybe 2 a day but it went away when I slacked down to 500 again. You might find depending on the RAM and CPU that something else is holding you back, I find the memory controller especially suffers without enough voltage at higher RAM frequencies or with all 4 slots populated.
 
Vir said:
I can't get my P35-DS3 (rev1.0) over 356Mhz FSB. So that means my board is ****? :/
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No, I'm afraid you need to look at operator errors, and you might want to edit out the sweary too. I'm surprised you can use that word, given that mis-spelling the gives you ***:confused:
 
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This test compares the Abit IP35-E and the J&W IP35-Pro. Now, my chinese isn't that hot, but from what I can see the Abit is extremely competitive given that it's a good bit cheaper. As the Abit IP35 is more of a competitor to the JW IP35-Pro, I'd say the Abit is probably the better value, especially since no-one has actually seen an OcUK IP35-Pro overclock anything in the UK yet.
 
ops sorry guys didnt notice reply for details.

320x10
1.33 vcore(1.28 cpuz)
2.2v ddr
dram 1:1.66

mem settings not sure where i came up with this lot, but top to bottom

5,5,5,15,42,6,11,4,6.

half the problem I had with the board was that it sticks your memory @ 1.8v which I didnt notice at first. Sorted this out and clocks fine. 3g was stock voltage.
 
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