IP35 Pro or P35C DS3R What Mobo?

Avathar77 · 15 Jan 2011 at 23:05

Ok I know these are not the most latest motherboards in the market at the moment

, but I recently got hold of an IP35 pro mobo. My second PC has an age old Intel 915 board with a P4 630(3GHz) so I was thinking of replacing this.
But I was reading some reviews and cant help but thinking if I should replace my trusty Gigabyte P35C DS3R with this and put the gigabyte board to my second PC?

jamesfreddie · 16 Jan 2011 at 15:42

Just Keep Your motherboard.

jamesfreddie · 16 Jan 2011 at 15:42

When you can afford it upgrade to sandy bridge.

jamesfreddie · 16 Jan 2011 at 15:43

775 Is nearly dead. I have just stopped spending money on it.

TrojanWhore · 16 Jan 2011 at 17:36

I had the IP35 PRO XE, and it was lovely to clock on, 3.4 (at 9x378 or 8x426) rock solid on a 1.325 VID q6600!
have no experience of the giga so I cant really tell you which is better

Vimes · 16 Jan 2011 at 17:43

I have both of those boards in separate PC's. I much prefer the Gigabyte as it just "feels" better. It might help as it has also ran at 8x500 with my E8500 from the day that it came out without any issue at all.

They are both great boards but for me I could not be bothered changing something for no benefit as they are both too similar.

BTW - my 775 is far from being nearly dead and will do anything that I want it to do and continues to be a great setup paired with my 4gb of memory and GTX460 1gb GPU.

WingZero30 · 16 Jan 2011 at 18:09

Vimes said:
I have both of those boards in separate PC's. I much prefer the Gigabyte as it just "feels" better. It might help as it has also ran at 8x500 with my E8500 from the day that it came out without any issue at all.

They are both great boards but for me I could not be bothered changing something for no benefit as they are both too similar.

BTW - my 775 is far from being nearly dead and will do anything that I want it to do and continues to be a great setup paired with my 4gb of memory and GTX460 1gb GPU.

That's awesome Vimes. How hot did your northbridge heatsink get? I have Gigabyte EP45 UD3LR and I can overclock my Q6600 to 3.4Ghz easily (378x9). But when I try [email protected] (400x9), my pc crashes and northbridge heatsink gets very hot.

Avathar77 · 16 Jan 2011 at 18:31

Thanx for the replies.
Come to think of it, it is true that changing something which performs very similar will look like a daft idea - specially since I would have to change the watercooling set-up as well. If I can manage to take out the whole water set-up intact, I might give it a try.
My approach to overclocking is trying to get it as high as it goes without pushing any extra volts to the Q6600. while keeping C1E and EIST on Auto, some how it makes me feel like I am saving some energy

Currently on DS3R it would not go above 3.2 (8x400)

Vimes · 16 Jan 2011 at 19:08

WingZero30 said:
That's awesome Vimes. How hot did your northbridge heatsink get? I have Gigabyte EP45 UD3LR and I can overclock my Q6600 to 3.4Ghz easily (378x9). But when I try [email protected] (400x9), my pc crashes and northbridge heatsink gets very hot.

My NB heatsink get hot(ish) but still very comfortable to touch. That is at 8x500.

As you are increasing both the FSB and CPU when you try your increased speed you could always try at 8x400 or 8.5 and if you do run at 3.2Ghz you know that your CPU is ok. Providing that your ram divider keeps the memory at its usual setting if it should then fail it is because of the motherboard and not the CPU.

Increasing the FSB only does not allow you to eliminate the problem being either the CPU or the FSB. Then again unless you address the increased RAM speed that could also be an issue.

FWIW I would not think that "upgrading" my set up for SB one would offer enough of a difference to justify the cost. With the Z68 chipset not too far away (with supposedly having SSD caching) there is still life in my P35 board and enough "just around the corner" to keep me curious without being committed to change yet.