OFFICIAL OcUK/JW IP35 Pro THREAD

kenofstephen · 16 Jan 2008 at 02:17

done by a normal user, not me, not ES.

shauncr91 · 16 Jan 2008 at 19:46

kenofstephen said:
if you set FSB without locking the RAM speed and SPD beforehand (e.g. 667MHz, 5-5-5-15, 1:1....etc),
definitely fail will be the result.

kenofstephen, your my new hero

Set all my memory settings up manually and now clocking away happily. Will post my final result once I get something im happy with

shauncr91 · 16 Jan 2008 at 20:07

It went straight up to this straight away with voltages increased as you can see. But anything above about 360FSB and it is unstable =/

WJA96 · 16 Jan 2008 at 21:22

shauncr91 said:
It went straight up to this straight away with voltages increased as you can see. But anything above about 360FSB and it is unstable =/

Have you locked the NB and FSB on the bottom or the bottom+1 setting? I found that taking those off AUTO got me another 200MHz or so but I'm not sure the BIOS voltage settings work quite right as anything over the lowest FSB and NB voltage make the Northbridge heatsink run really hot, which is normally really cool on mine.

kenofstephen · 17 Jan 2008 at 03:11

shauncr91 said:
It went straight up to this straight away with voltages increased as you can see. But anything above about 360FSB and it is unstable =/

suggest to test the max. FSB with x6 multiplier first

and 1:1 is a bit "low", suggest to have 5:6 (1:1.2)
or simply select DRAM speed to 800MHz in BIOS.

Kanifee · 18 Jan 2008 at 16:11

kenofstephen said:
Ultra Low Latency = Lower overclocking power, if you don't loosen the timings and increasing the vdimm.

hi there, timings were slackend and the board wont post after 230FSB im using geil ram so i upped the ram volts by 0.20 as it defaults at 1.88 and the geil says it runs between 1.9-2.2 but still no differance.
i have tryed an fsb of 250 wich should be no trouble atall with every ram divider possible and it still wont post above 230 and ive tryed 260, 270, 280, 290 and so on with differant divider settings i even upped the cpu voltage but at 250Fsb that shouldnt really be needed should it though it maid no differance any way.

kenofstephen · 20 Jan 2008 at 05:22

damian666 said:
hi there, timings were slackend and the board wont post after 230FSB im using geil ram so i upped the ram volts by 0.20 as it defaults at 1.88 and the geil says it runs between 1.9-2.2 but still no differance.
i have tryed an fsb of 250 wich should be no trouble atall with every ram divider possible and it still wont post above 230 and ive tryed 260, 270, 280, 290 and so on with differant divider settings i even upped the cpu voltage but at 250Fsb that shouldnt really be needed should it though it maid no differance any way.

this is all about BIOS settings.....
you should have seen users here are able to oc with Duo & Quad.

for easy reference and comment,
please upload some BIOS screen shots, like CPU, DRAM, Voltage settings.

so that we can help you.

WJA96 · 20 Jan 2008 at 11:23

kenofstephen said:
this is all about BIOS settings.....
you should have seen users here are able to oc with Duo & Quad.

for easy reference and comment,
please upload some BIOS screen shots, like CPU, DRAM, Voltage settings.

so that we can help you.

It is all about BIOS settings, however the BIOS doesn't react to changes the way I would expect it to.

For example - what controls the 667/800MHz strap? Is it the switch in the DRAM settings?

If I set the 667MHz strap in the DRAM settings, and I run 1:1 I would expect my RAM to run at 533MHz with a 266MHz CPU or 400MHz with a 200MHz CPU. It doesn't work. Something somewhere in the BIOS is changing something and it is causing odd results. In fact I'm not certain the 667MHz strap works properly as I actually can't get any kind of overclock on using it. The 800MHz strap seems to work better, but it still does wierd things.

Am I right in thinking the V1.2 BIOS is the same for the IG31A and IP35 board?

sulli · 20 Jan 2008 at 12:43

@kenofstephen
Any news of the new bios??

WJA96 · 20 Jan 2008 at 12:44

damian666 said:
hi there, timings were slackend and the board wont post after 230FSB im using geil ram so i upped the ram volts by 0.20 as it defaults at 1.88 and the geil says it runs between 1.9-2.2 but still no differance.
i have tryed an fsb of 250 wich should be no trouble atall with every ram divider possible and it still wont post above 230 and ive tryed 260, 270, 280, 290 and so on with differant divider settings i even upped the cpu voltage but at 250Fsb that shouldnt really be needed should it though it maid no differance any way.

Have you tried just resetting the BIOS to optimum defaults and turning the FSB up to 266? This BIOS is not very clever, but on default it seems to clock pretty well. I get most of my best overclocks on this by just leaving everything set to default.

shauncr91 · 20 Jan 2008 at 13:59

sulli said:
@kenofstephen
Any news of the new bios??

There is a BIOS available on the website, not sure if this is the new release or not though since it wasnt mentioned here, from what I can see.

sulli · 20 Jan 2008 at 18:10

The one on the website is v1.2 the bios the ocuk boards ship with currently.

Kanifee · 20 Jan 2008 at 23:43

WJA96 said:
Have you tried just resetting the BIOS to optimum defaults and turning the FSB up to 266? This BIOS is not very clever, but on default it seems to clock pretty well. I get most of my best overclocks on this by just leaving everything set to default.

Hi there will take some photo's of the bios screens soon as i can but i have loaded optamized defaults around 4 times now and even had to reset the bios with the mainboard jumper on a couple of occasions.
each time i try to overclock the cpu i will start with simply upping the fsb to 250 to start with then i set the ram voltages to +0.20v as the geil ram is rated for between 1.9v-2.2v. If this has no luck i slacken the timings on the ram to 5-5-5-15 with the previous settings, and if that does not work i go through and try to boot it each time with each memory divider in turn eliminating a divider wich is just plane wrong. to be hounest the divider looses me im more acustomed to a gigabyte bios though i do know enough about overclocking that this board should be a doddle as i have to deal with overclocking a g33m-s2 with a e2140 and frankly down rite louzy overclocking elixer ram.
that combination is still serving me now and seems like a dodle to this p35 board, one thing i have noticed though is that the razer diamondback and the eclipse II keyboard indicate a bad overclock on this board. by this i mean that if the machine starts to boot the keyboard and mouse flash and light up as usual but then they just go off and no blue lights to see and this is the first indication of a bad setting somewere so its a restart and it boots at default.

a nice feature to add to the bios would be a real time ram and cpu calculation in the bios showing you what your settings are going to result in after reboot. just a suggestion that last bit as it seems like a feature that should be on any board that boasts overclockability.

kenofstephen · 21 Jan 2008 at 06:59

sulli said:
The one on the website is v1.2 the bios the ocuk boards ship with currently.

v1.3 should be able to release on this Wednesday.

sulli · 21 Jan 2008 at 18:20

Ideal thanks for the reply.

Any idea how well one of these will cope with an e8500 Kenofstephen ??

kenofstephen · 22 Jan 2008 at 02:27

sulli said:
Ideal thanks for the reply.
Any idea how well one of these will cope with an e8500 Kenofstephen ??

yes, the 0.5x multiplier should be working.

kenofstephen · 22 Jan 2008 at 09:16

damian666 said:
Hi there will take some photo's of the bios screens soon as i can but i have loaded optamized defaults around 4 times now and even had to reset the bios with the mainboard jumper on a couple of occasions.
each time i try to overclock the cpu i will start with simply upping the fsb to 250 to start with then i set the ram voltages to +0.20v as the geil ram is rated for between 1.9v-2.2v. If this has no luck i slacken the timings on the ram to 5-5-5-15 with the previous settings, and if that does not work i go through and try to boot it each time with each memory divider in turn eliminating a divider wich is just plane wrong. to be hounest the divider looses me im more acustomed to a gigabyte bios though i do know enough about overclocking that this board should be a doddle as i have to deal with overclocking a g33m-s2 with a e2140 and frankly down rite louzy overclocking elixer ram.
that combination is still serving me now and seems like a dodle to this p35 board, one thing i have noticed though is that the razer diamondback and the eclipse II keyboard indicate a bad overclock on this board. by this i mean that if the machine starts to boot the keyboard and mouse flash and light up as usual but then they just go off and no blue lights to see and this is the first indication of a bad setting somewere so its a restart and it boots at default.

a nice feature to add to the bios would be a real time ram and cpu calculation in the bios showing you what your settings are going to result in after reboot. just a suggestion that last bit as it seems like a feature that should be on any board that boasts overclockability.

yes please, we need a list of hardware and pics of BIOS settings in order to help you.

kenofstephen · 22 Jan 2008 at 10:25

the v1.3 bios, 1 day earlier than I expected

please flash it carefully without overclocking and dos flash is always the best way, crash free.

http://rapidshare.de/files/38375278/JP35V13.BIN.html

shauncr91 · 22 Jan 2008 at 10:56

WOOT, I'll flash my BIOS when I get home from college today, and let you know how it goes.

Though I'll be doing a software flash (never done a dos flash in my life and dont want to start now

)

kenofstephen · 22 Jan 2008 at 15:21

shauncr91 said:
WOOT, I'll flash my BIOS when I get home from college today, and let you know how it goes.

Though I'll be doing a software flash (never done a dos flash in my life and dont want to start now )

which college is it? :eek:

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