OFFICIAL OcUK/JW IP35 Pro THREAD

kenofstephen · 5 Jan 2008 at 12:33

WJA96 said:
Any chance you could post the V1.0 BIOS you're using?

sure, now I am at another house, will be back to there and upload you the bios, around tomorrow's noon.

kenofstephen · 5 Jan 2008 at 12:35

WJA96 said:
Joy. So how can it do SATA II if it's limited to 100Mb/sec (UDMA5)?

not really if you already had your Intel SATA controller driver installed in your OS.

WJA96 · 5 Jan 2008 at 13:00

kenofstephen said:
not really if you already had your Intel SATA controller driver installed in your OS.

It was a clean OS install from the drivers from the CD supplied with the Motherboard.

easyrider · 5 Jan 2008 at 13:03

WJA96 said:
It was a clean OS install from the drivers from the CD supplied with the Motherboard.

Marks out of 10 for this mobo?

WJA96 · 5 Jan 2008 at 13:16

easyrider said:
Marks out of 10 for this mobo?

I hardly think I'm the best person to ask at the moment. I'm annoyed because it just won't clock a quadcore and I don't have a dual-core without disassembling my HTPC. It doesn't have RAID, it doesn't really look like it has SATA II, the BIOS is BETA at best (remember the odd VGA options that I didn't understand before? They're options for the onboard graphics adapter (it doesn't have one), plus if you want to set the RAM timings, the options just don't go high enough, plus I genuinely think the CPU hardware timing clock wanders. If you go into the BIOS and lift the chipset or CPU FSB voltage options the Northbridge heatsink is totally overwhelmed etc. etc.

I'm not well disposed to it at the moment. I certainly wouldn't recommend it to an enthusiast user. The question is - will OcUK take it back?

easyrider · 5 Jan 2008 at 13:23

WJA96 said:
I hardly think I'm the best person to ask at the moment. I'm annoyed because it just won't clock a quadcore and I don't have a dual-core without disassembling my HTPC. It doesn't have RAID, it doesn't really look like it has SATA II, the BIOS is BETA at best (remember the odd VGA options that I didn't understand before? They're options for the onboard graphics adapter (it doesn't have one), plus if you want to set the RAM timings, the options just don't go high enough, plus I genuinely think the CPU hardware timing clock wanders. If you go into the BIOS and lift the chipset or CPU FSB voltage options the Northbridge heatsink is totally overwhelmed etc. etc.

I'm not well disposed to it at the moment. I certainly wouldn't recommend it to an enthusiast user. The question is - will OcUK take it back?

doesn't sound to good then..

sulli · 6 Jan 2008 at 10:20

Had a fiddle with mine last night for a bit

that with all voltages a default apart from vdimm. It should go higher quite easily.

kenofstephen · 6 Jan 2008 at 12:06

WJA, I have the bios exported and ready, please let me know where you want me to upload to.

kenofstephen · 6 Jan 2008 at 12:11

sulli said:
Had a fiddle with mine last night for a bit

that with all voltages a default apart from vdimm. It should go higher quite easily.

yes, 500FSB on Duo is guaranteed as long as the CPU is capable of doing so

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Big.Wayne · 6 Jan 2008 at 12:13

WJA96 said:
Easier than falling off a log

Hi WJA96, It took me a few minutes to work out this board isn't the *ABIT* IP35 Pro

Oh silly me, anyway this boards looks really affordable so I look forward to your results. . .

OcUK Value IP35 Pro Intel P35

£64.61 inc VAT

P.S: you may wanna chuck a link to the overclockers product page in the opening post, I'm sure Gibbo will appreciate it! :cool:

WJA96 said:

That is without doubt the most cutdown list of accessories I have even seen, what is there, a flat ribbon IDE cable, one SATA cable and one molex to SATA power adapter?

Is there a sticker!

kenofstephen · 6 Jan 2008 at 12:21

http://www.megafileupload.com/en/file/34449/jwip35prov1-bin.html

Link for my old v1.0 bios, flash it at your own risk, as this may have more bugs than the v1.2 bios. :rolleyes:

kenofstephen · 6 Jan 2008 at 12:23

Big.Wayne said:
That is without doubt the most cutdown list of accessories I have even seen, what is there, a flat ribbon IDE cable, one SATA cable and one molex to SATA power adapter?

Is there a sticker!

you are welcomed to suggest some critical accessories that you think should be included with the value board but missed currently.

Minstadave · 6 Jan 2008 at 12:24

Big.Wayne said:
That is without doubt the most cutdown list of accessories I have even seen, what is there, a flat ribbon IDE cable, one SATA cable and one molex to SATA power adapter?

Is there a sticker!

For just over 60 quid its still a bargain.

WJA96 · 6 Jan 2008 at 12:36

Minstadave said:
For just over 60 quid its still a bargain.

It's actually no better than a Gigabyte P31-DS3L, and that's £15 less, so I'm not sure how big a bargain it is.

WJA96 · 6 Jan 2008 at 12:44

Big.Wayne said:
Hi WJA96, It took me a few minutes to work out this board isn't the *ABIT* IP35 Pro

No worries Wayne - I'm sure you'll catch up quickly.

Big.Wayne said:
That is without doubt the most cutdown list of accessories I have even seen, what is there, a flat ribbon IDE cable, one SATA cable and one molex to SATA power adapter?

Is there a sticker!

Nope - no sticker.

Big.Wayne · 6 Jan 2008 at 12:48

WJA96 said:
I'm sure you'll catch up quickly.

Hey no fair, I can't believe the name is the same as the ABIT board

WJA96 said:
Nope - no sticker.

I see my humour has not been appreciated, I will get my coat!

Big.Wayne · 6 Jan 2008 at 12:49

sulli said:
Had a fiddle with mine last night for a bit

I'm sorry sulli, that just plain sounds wrong!

right I'm off now sorry for the disruption Walter!

kenofstephen · 6 Jan 2008 at 12:53

WJA96 said:
It's actually no better than a Gigabyte P31-DS3L, and that's £15 less, so I'm not sure how big a bargain it is.

our G31 is another £15 less than P31-DS3L, if someone is interested......

kenofstephen · 6 Jan 2008 at 12:54

WJA96 said:
I hardly think I'm the best person to ask at the moment. I'm annoyed because it just won't clock a quadcore and I don't have a dual-core without disassembling my HTPC. It doesn't have RAID, it doesn't really look like it has SATA II, the BIOS is BETA at best (remember the odd VGA options that I didn't understand before? They're options for the onboard graphics adapter (it doesn't have one), plus if you want to set the RAM timings, the options just don't go high enough, plus I genuinely think the CPU hardware timing clock wanders. If you go into the BIOS and lift the chipset or CPU FSB voltage options the Northbridge heatsink is totally overwhelmed etc. etc.

I'm not well disposed to it at the moment. I certainly wouldn't recommend it to an enthusiast user. The question is - will OcUK take it back?

giving yourself a few more days before drawing the conclusion might be more fair...especially for ocing quad...

it is not targeted for WR breaking ocing, it is targeted to provide a reasonable overclocking for budgeted users...
I wouldn't recommend this board to a user who is looking for extreme overclocking too.

kenofstephen · 6 Jan 2008 at 13:24

WJA:

ICH9 (only with IDE mode): SATA II 3.0 Gb/s HDD in Windows will be displayed as UDMA Mode 5/6

ICH9R (IDE mode): SATA II 3.0 Gb/s HDD in Windows will be displayed as UDMA Mode 5/6

ICH9R (AHCI mode): you won't be able to view your HDD mode status directly.

ICH9R (RAID mode): you will see the SATA RAID controller.

I think you should be quite familiar with that, for you have RAID array experience before I believe.

added: screen shots for easy reference.

9 and 9R @ AHCI

9R @ RAID

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