OcUK Value IP35 Pro Intel P35

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Has anyone got their hands on one of these yet?

Will there be any problems with me runnning 4 sticks of OCZ 800mhz in it and a E4300 to clock it to the max??

I want to go P35 so I can go quad later when the new ones are out will this board be good for clocking them

Anyone know if my swiftech chipset cooler will fit on aswel??
 
no-one will have the board yet, only arrived in stock today and all stock sold so far has been shipped...

As for the Chipset block, the swiftech block is pretty much universal anyway but it will fit, i just checked.
 
Damn, I just ordered my system minutes before this appeared. Should I cancel and get this motherboard instead of the Gigabyte GA-P35C-DS3R?
 
It's a bit Naughty to call their boards IP35 Pro, - A bit to similar to the Abit boards me thinks..

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=BU-092-OK

- I nearly bought this bundle thinking it included the Abit board!

It's the bundle with the OCZ 4GB (2x2GB) PC2-6400C4 800MHz Reaper.

Just over £300.
(That would include free delivery now also)

It's a shame there are not many /any reviews of the bundles (In general - I know this is a new product just launched today;-)

I.E - I was able to overclock this to xxx etc.


From looking at my sig guys do you think I would benifit much from this upgrade?

(Currently 1/2 through Crysis ;-)
 
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It's a bit Naughty to call their boards IP35 Pro, - A bit to similar to the Abit boards me thinks..
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:O I thought it IS the Abit board! (Just with some downgrades to make it cheaper to manufacture)
 
Hopefully they are a good Chinese copy that Overclocks just as well !

- But they are definatly NOT ABIT ;-) (From the detail they have given so far)
 
Definitely not the Abit board - it looks like a Foxconn/Intel pattern board but it's missing some of the extras I would expect to see on a top of the range board like Firewire.

The real value in this exercise is that if OcUK can shift enough boards they may be able to get some influence on things like BIOS options, chipset coolers etc.
 
Shaddow said:
From looking at my sig guys do you think I would benifit much from this upgrade?

(Currently 1/2 through Crysis ;-)
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I'd leave it until a few guinea-pigs have had a go. It could go either way at the moment. The problem is it's just not cheap enough - I paid £75 delivered for mine and if you look around, you can get some pretty juicy boards for that, or even less.
 
Actually - the more time I spend on that website, the more concerned I become. The downloadable utilities are CPUz, CoreTemp and Prime2004! THe driver downloads are very sparse indeed so either this completely works out of the box with XP and Vista or they just rely on Intel for drivers. Or the English language website doesn't show you everything the Chinese language one does, maybe?
 
In theory it should work out of the box with Vista. Vista will have the chipset, sound and lan drivers built-in. The CD also seems to have them. Tho you will have to go to Intel to get the very latest chipset drivers after installing Vista as they aren't on the JW site. The board doesn't seem to have RAID (ICH9 and no JMicron RAID), so no drivers for it.

BIOS updates will be the main concern.
 
Cob said:
In theory it should work out of the box with Vista. Vista will have the chipset, sound and lan drivers built-in. The CD also seems to have them. Tho you will have to go to Intel to get the very latest chipset drivers after installing Vista as they aren't on the JW site. The board doesn't seem to have RAID (ICH9 and no JMicron RAID), so no drivers for it.

BIOS updates will be the main concern.
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It says all over that site it has RAID. And from OcUK's website;

- LGA 775
- Intel P35
- 1333 Front Side Bus
- Dual DDR2 1066 (oc) / 800 / 667 MHz
- 2x PCI-E X16 with Crossfire Support
- SATA-II with RAID
- eSATA 3G
- Dual Gigabit LAN
- USB2.0
- 7.1 CH HD Audio
- S/PDIF (Coaxial & Optical)
- Onboard Debug LED
- Dual AWARD BIOS, J&W’s P3 series equipped with 8Mbit Flash Dual BIOS which prevents BIOS from firmware or viral damage and provides a double security to the motherboard.
 
Ah.

The Overview says SATAII x 6 but the Specification lists 4 x SATA 3Gb/s connectors and 1 x eSATA connector. But the pic of the board itself shows the two white JMicron (I assume it's JMicron anyway) SATA connectors.

I'm pretty sure that Vista doesn't have the JMicron RAID drivers.
 
The two additional ports are from a Marvell 88E6021 controller. So that'd be RAID 0 or 1 for 2 drives I guess. And it looks like if you use the eSATA or PATA port you lose those channels from the RAID system, so if I'm not mistaken it looks like you can have a PATA drive, and eSATA or RAID, but not any combination of those, but I will have to wait and see, of course.
 
WJA96 said:
Actually - the more time I spend on that website, the more concerned I become. The downloadable utilities are CPUz, CoreTemp and Prime2004! THe driver downloads are very sparse indeed so either this completely works out of the box with XP and Vista or they just rely on Intel for drivers. Or the English language website doesn't show you everything the Chinese language one does, maybe?
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there doesn't appear to be any available BIOS download for the IP35-pro either.
 
Just finished installing this, and I can't for the life of me work out how you get into the RAID setup. I've tried CTRL+M, delete, everything and I still can't setup the array. I've tried all the different SATA ports (well the ones I can get to that aren't obstructed by the graphics card :rolleyes:).

Grr, bit of a pain as I really want to run an array instead of two single disks. Anyone had any success yet or know how to get the config up for a Marvel 88SE6145 controller?
 
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