*****OFFICIAL OcUK/JW IP35 Pro THREAD*****

[Pauly B]

Well i tried it and it worked fine using winflash on vista so all is good

Glad it worked for you bud

 

[Pauly B]

Well just a little up date,

Got me a wolfdale yesterday the e8400 popped it in and no issues at all, havn't o'clocked yet too new for that lol.

Also got 2x 3850 pros in xfire now, pulling 13,612 in 3dmark 06 .

This board is punching well above its weight, (mind you OCUK need to drop that price a bit I think i'd have gone for a name brand also if this was £64 as it is now....! )

Still a great board though plays nice.

Paul

 

[kenofstephen]

What are you wanting to clock?

If it's a dual-core E2x00, E4x00, E6x00, E6x70 then it's every bit as good at overclocking as the £100 boards. If it's a quad-core then you will squeeze an extra 100-200MHz out of an Abit IP35-Pro or Gigabyte P35-DS4 or P5K-E WiFi. I haven't tried it with an E8400 yet (it's waiting at the CityLink depot for me) but I don't see why it won't clock it well as this board seems to love high FSB's.

It is now a really good board. I always said the hardware was a quality item, but the old v1.2 BIOS let it down. The new v1.3 BIOS lets the hardware perform as well as it can. There are still a couple of issues (max manual tRAS setting is still 15 and the minimum manually settable voltage is higher than the VID's for the Wolfdales so underclocking them is impossible) but given the speed of response to the original issues raised, I think J&W will respond quickly and positively once again.

reported the minor issues you mentioned to the bios team, but they are having the Chinese New Year holiday now, going back to their homes that are far far away.

 

[kenofstephen]

today i've got some time and tried the winflash to v1.3 bios,

i checked the "update all" and "clear cmos" options,

and successfully updated the bios in 1 shot.

I don't see problems with winflash so far.

 

[shauncr91]

I havent had any problems flashing with Winflash either.

 

[kenofstephen]

I've noticed the motherboard manual says SPDIF IN (which is Coax) and SPDIF OUT (which is Optical). Can I connect my amp via the SPDIF IN (Coax)? Or is this for recording? (hence in?)

What is the difference between the PRO and the -S? Just second LAN and BIOS?

IN is for recording, you are right.

and PRO & S differs with second LAN and BIOS and capacitors on the PWM area only.

 

[Scougar]

mind you OCUK need to drop that price a bit I think i'd have gone for a name brand also if this was £64 as it is now....!

Definately agree. Below £60 it's great value, above £60 and it is starting to make me want to look at branded goods.

I personally think £58 was a very good 'right' price for it.

Matthew

 

[WJA96]

reported the minor issues you mentioned to the bios team, but they are having the Chinese New Year holiday now, going back to their homes that are far far away.

That's good to know. I was very sorry to see on the news that there are tranport issues in some parts of China. We also have trains that don't run. The difference is that ours are like that all the time!

Happy New Year.

 

[WJA96]

Definately area. Below £60 it's great value, above £60 and it is starting to make me want to look at branded goods.

I personally think £58 was a very good 'right' price for it.

Matthew

I agree about the price - I think J&W have to build their brand, and that's usually done by either producing somthing really expensive, that has lots of really special features, or by being cheap, and buying market share.

By branding this as a generic OcUK part, J&W have done themselves no favours in my opinion. This is now a really great motherboard, and it deserves to sell really well, but people won't buy it unless it offers something the other known brands don't. The extra features (LED Status panel and 2nd PCIe graphics slot) don't appeal to enough people to make it a must-buy at the price. And, if we're honest, OcUK haven't supported this board at all. They let their customers be the guinea-pigs and if it hadn't been for kenofstephen and J&W's engineers, this thing would have died on it's feet. And that would be wrong, as J&W deserve to do well.

C'mon OcUK - drop the price back to £58 and I reckon thet'll fly out the door now the users are getting some decent results published.

 

[Pauly B]

today i've got some time and tried the winflash to v1.3 bios,

i checked the "update all" and "clear cmos" options,

and successfully updated the bios in 1 shot.

I don't see problems with winflash so far.

I guess I was unlucky then but twice i tried and failed, and I've used winflash in the past no issues, hence why i did this time.

Any how all working great now so i'll put it down to experience.

 

[kenofstephen]

That's good to know. I was very sorry to see on the news that there are tranport issues in some parts of China. We also have trains that don't run. The difference is that ours are like that all the time!

Happy New Year.

and some people fell down and stepped by the crowd and died..........

 

[Scougar]

and some people fell down and stepped by the crowd and died..........

Hopefully no one from your work or anyone you knew? Horrendous news regardless.

I'm in the same boat as WJA, I think that it will always be seen as the 'budget' option unless the branding is changed from J&W or OCUK actually market the products better. Even then, it will be held back by the ocuk brand.

As for the price, what I look at is £64 plus postage means I could if I wished be looking for a board that was branded and about £72 elsewhere. The advantage you at ocuk have, is that no one else has this board/manufacturer in the UK, and should be selling it as such.

To reiterate> Drop price + market it on the OCUK website.

Have you considered having a dedicated OCUK brand product section that is as easy to see and click on as the 'This Week Only' section is??

EDIT: I notice you did get some good exposure here. http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5525&Itemid=1 Although peeps won't know OCUK boards are actually J&W

Matthew

 

[tutu]

I agree that at £58 it was a good buy but now I am looking at other boards.

 

[princeoftheCH]

thought some might be interested to know.

i successfully managed to BIOS flash with Winflash ver 1.92 by following the instructions on the website.

couldn't manage to make a bootable CD and i installed tried to install a floppy, that just wouldn't install, so i resorted to winflash. crossed my fingers, used task manager to close down ever unnecessary background application etc. and it worked!

 

[tanner]

Well so far with water cooling and after trying the 1:2, 1:1 and 1:1.2 dividers all i can squeeze out of my 8200 is 380*8 and am at a loss why it wont go any futher as people are goign crazy for these chips i was hoping to hit at least 3ghz anyone think they could help?
also any way of checking the Bios version would be handy as i used winflash to update to 1.3 and am not sure if it did it properly. many thanks in advance

 

[princeoftheCH]

should have it come up on the POST screen when you start your computer up

 

[tanner]

ok cheers prince gonna go give it a try now does the 1.3 make a big differance with the wolfdales? as ive mainly seen quads in this thread

tested and it is *** 1.3 bios managed to get 3ghz now but still isnt mooving from the 380 fsb is it possibly due to me having 800mhz ram(6400) that i have already knocked down to 677mhz in the bios to obtain the 3ghz?

 

[Scutter]

I have a similar issue to tanner

I left the mem settings on auto and clocked 300x9 no problems, tried at 333x9 and all seemed ok till prime95, after 30 minutes I got a blue screen, temps were ok at 62, 62, 58, 58.
I then changed the memory and put in the timings of 4-4-4-15 and the divider to 1:1, again this seemed perfectly stable (333x9) after 2 hours of prime, today I changed the divider to 1:1.2, beep beep beep!!, so seems that I can only get 3ghz if I lower the mem to 667.

(Q6600 G0 & 4GB OCZ Reaper 6400 C4, 1.3 bios)

 

[P373]

similar problem here to... Can get to about 350*8, anything higher than that and the pc freezes at random times, cant get it to boot above about 363 no matter *** i do. This is with ram ratio at 1:1. Tried upping voltages and playing with ram timings, no effect.
Also interestingly i cant run at 333*8 with a dram ratio of 1:1.2 or 266*8 with a 1:1.5 ratio. Ive tried messing with ram voltage and timings as mentioned before with little luck. The ram is designed to do 400mhz at 1.8v and i have had it doing so in another board...
Oh also i am running bios v1.3

 

[tanner]

i think i have finally worked out the problem notice the fact we are all using 800mhz ram and goign for high FSB clocks making the ram unstable due to normally running out of voltage, as when i was running my rig @ 380*9 the ram was set to 677 and still hitting a speed of 900mhz ! 100 over stock not bad lol but as the max mem v my board can have is 2.08 am a bit stuck think the solution will be some 1066 ram letting me remain stable hope this helps a few other people?