**Official ABIT IP-35 Pro Review/Overclock/Guide Thread**
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Ahh, gotta love how it's always the simplest thing you overlook, eh?
Installing Windows now, touch wood.
Cheers ears
Edit: Oh joy. It wasn't installing, googled it, something to do with RAM.
Ran Memtest, so far, I've got 92,416 errors, and I'm only 48% done.
Looks like one of my sticks of RAM isn't very well.
More fiddling about ahoy!
Installing Windows now, touch wood.
Cheers ears
Edit: Oh joy. It wasn't installing, googled it, something to do with RAM.
Ran Memtest, so far, I've got 92,416 errors, and I'm only 48% done.
Looks like one of my sticks of RAM isn't very well.
More fiddling about ahoy!
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Soldato
Could be a voltage issue.
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Ok just updated my BIOS to the latest version, and now all my settings have been reset, cos it was like a year ago i OC my Q6600 to 3.4GHz i cannot remember what volatges i need to adjust to achieve a stable system again under stress. I know my vcore (in bios) was set to 1.1450, but can remember what i notched the MCH, ICH, VTT voltages up to???
Soldato
That's why you write down your settings and keep them safe in the motherboards box.
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Yeah i know, was trying to get 3.6 out of my Q6600, atm i have it at 3.4, only voltage options i have change are:
Vcore set at 1.4150 in bios and 1.350 in CPU-Z
MCH voltage to 1.29
DRAM to 2.1 (and +2% DRAM Ref Voltage)
and temps under stress are:
CPU 55c
Cores 62, 60, 58, 58
PWM 71
But no luck with3.6GHz, even upped the Vcore to 1.5550!! (BIOS) and prime runs for about 2 minutes and then blue screens!!! Any idea what needs to be done to get 3.6??, the temps at 1.5550 are getting a bit stupid around 70 CPU, 80-85 on the cores, and PWM gets to 100c
at stress, so going higher voltage isnt really recommended, suggestions??
Vcore set at 1.4150 in bios and 1.350 in CPU-Z
MCH voltage to 1.29
DRAM to 2.1 (and +2% DRAM Ref Voltage)
and temps under stress are:
CPU 55c
Cores 62, 60, 58, 58
PWM 71
But no luck with3.6GHz, even upped the Vcore to 1.5550!! (BIOS) and prime runs for about 2 minutes and then blue screens!!! Any idea what needs to be done to get 3.6??, the temps at 1.5550 are getting a bit stupid around 70 CPU, 80-85 on the cores, and PWM gets to 100c
at stress, so going higher voltage isnt really recommended, suggestions??
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Any suggestions
Soldato
Have you upped the VTT?
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No havent touched them, just the voltages that i listed above i have changed. I take it when the system blue screens its down to lack of voltage??, so when you get an error on one of the threads your testing whats that due to
Soldato
That can be a lack of voltage too.
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Should i put the VTT voltage up a notched the?, i think its on 1.20 atm, ill try 1.23?? how does VTT voltage differ from the vcore voltage then?
Soldato
Yip up the VTT by a notch and see how you fare.
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Ok, ill give that ago tomorrow. One thing i have noticed since i upgraded my BIOS, i have set everything back to what it was before, and before i got a stable OC of 3.4GHz on 1.4150v in the bios, i have tried the same OC and stress tested with Prime95, but after about 20 minutes i get a blue screen now, where back last year i got over 9 hours on prime at the same settings, but now wont even do an hour without blue screening!
The only thing thats changed in my system is, 1 extra HD added, upgraded from a 8800GT to ATI 4780, and this BIOS upgrade. Can anyone shed some light on this??
The only thing thats changed in my system is, 1 extra HD added, upgraded from a 8800GT to ATI 4780, and this BIOS upgrade. Can anyone shed some light on this??
The 4870 will draw a lot more power than the 8800GT, this could be putting a little more stress on your power supply, which may be giving out slightly less power than necessary, it doesn't take much to cause a glitch...
The 4870 also is just a little bit "buggy" or at least the cat drivers for it are (I have one)... it may be this causing the crash rather than the overclock on the cpu... I presume you upped the default fan speed and disabled powerplay by forcing 750 core speed... or at least forcing it to stop switching up and down...
Why did you change your bios if it was working fine? You can always go back to the old bios and see if that solves your problem, at least it'll eliminate that from the equation.
The 4870 also is just a little bit "buggy" or at least the cat drivers for it are (I have one)... it may be this causing the crash rather than the overclock on the cpu... I presume you upped the default fan speed and disabled powerplay by forcing 750 core speed... or at least forcing it to stop switching up and down...
Why did you change your bios if it was working fine? You can always go back to the old bios and see if that solves your problem, at least it'll eliminate that from the equation.
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Yeah i have the fan on the 4780 at 25% for windows and then 35% for gaming. How do i disabled powerplay, and what does powerplay do??, as i dont think ive disabled it. I have OC the card to 810/1010 however!
I upgraded because, i have a temperamental problem with my CPU fan, for some reason sometime when i trun my system on the fan doesnt slow down to the 900rpm i have it setup as in the bios and just goes full speed. The only way im able to get the fan running at 900rpm is to turn the system off via the wallm and then on again, so i though the new update may fix this problem
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Powerplay drops the clock speed of the gfx card to a lower level for non intensive operations, to save power. What was happening me was it was occasionally jumping up and down if there was a slight increase in graphical load, or in some games when there was a drop in load (in menus ets) it would drop to 2D speed which was causing crashes.
I now have 2 profiles, one low speed fan and forced low speed core, one higher speed fan and slightly oc core/memory. I change them with a keyboard shortcut. To change the fan and core speeds you need to first create a profile in CCC say "HighSpeed" and then edit the profile xml file, in vista it's in app data/local/ace/ati/profile (I think, not on home pc now) open the file and change the values from (50000, 75000, 75000), to all 75000 (or for your overclock 81000). It's the same file that you change your wantfanspeed value, to get 25%/35%. There's a better explanation here on page 4 of the thread. Link to the fan fix is here
Create a second profile with valuse to set a lower clock speed (50000) and fan speed. You can link the profile to a keyboard shortcut in CCC profile manager.
As for the CPU fan speed, if you have a 3-pin fan connector on your cpu fan the IP35 Pro can't properly control the fan speed from the CPU 4-pin header. I use another header (the system one) and change the associated settings in the bios. Get loads of alarms every time I change the bios, as it sees no cpu fan, but it's easy to change it back.
EDIT: By the way, if you change any setting in CCC overclock section while in this profile (fan speed etc) it will overwrite your edited profile with the defalut values so you'll need to re edit the file) use GPU-Z to check the core/fan speed after any changes to make sure you got it right.
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