Abit IP35 Pro overclocking guide for Q6600 CPU from 11 years ago wanted..

[Nanos]

I asked Overclockers but it appears they no longer have a copy of their helpful instructions, which many years ago now I got with a CPU+MB bundle.

Since my CPU has mysteriously reset itself somewhat (I added a new graphics card and it did this !), and so far I haven't found my hard copy of said guide, has anyone got a PDF/etc. copy they could send me by email ?

I know there are various online guides, but this particular guide was very specific about the steps you had to take so you didn't break anything, and I'd really not like to break anything more !

Thanks in advance.

 

[Nanos]

I also don't want to kill the motherboard and anything else plugged in.

Its running a Q9550 now.

I do remember there was steps you had to do in a certain order and reboot between them, or it wouldn't work. (I seem to recal that W10 is ultra picky about this kind of thing on this particular MB and CPU, as such I don't want to break my W10 installation !)

Interestingly its settings got changed when I plugged in a GTX 1060 6Gb graphics card, I wonder why that was ?

I also have a GXT 750 Ti plugged in too, before that, now running both in tandem. (I wonder if there is a power draw issue with having two graphic cards and an overclocked CPU ?) I also have a new PSU as well, a 1,000w model, rather than the previous 550w model, on the basis that I wasn't sure 550w would be enough to power the two graphic cards and other bits N' pieces. (Various online calculators said 750w PSU was recommended for what I have plugged in.)

I've searched the house and the garage, but no sign of it, but I could swear I saw it a year or two ago here, I just can't remember where for sure, or where I put it !

You'd think something like that would be laying around on the web someplace..

 

[Nanos]

I found using the Q9550 I hardly had to change anything to get it to overclock, but I did have to underclock the memory to get all 8Gb of RAM to work.
(I went for a simple overclock to 3.4Ghz for the CPU, and the memory downgraded to 800Mhz.)

Now its back to 2.89Ghz with all auto settings, and the memory to 816Mhz or so.

On the plus side, its using less watts.

But it is noticeably slower..

Thanks hugely for the guidelines.

 

[Nanos]

This just came to me, doesn't tell me how I got there, but at least shows me / others what the settings ended up as:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/127894154@N03/albums

Two photo albums:

> Abit IP35 Pro BIOS settings with 3.4Ghz Q9550 CPU

> Abit IP35 Pro BIOS settings with Q6600 CPU

I vaguely remember now taking the pictures on an Android phone, and it was so difficult to upload them to anywjere, the only place I could find to put them was on a FlickR account, I created it just for them.

Hopefully this helps anyone else searching for answers too.