Gizm0
Power Member
The Abit AB9 QuadGT was a very popular board if word through the tubes is to be believed. Stemming on from this P965 success, Abit has made the IP35 Pro with many elements of the QuadGT in mind. Gone are the digital PWMs though, and in place are the traditional analogue ones.
This may seem like a step backwards, but Abit is actually listening to users who complained they ran too hot and caused CPU voltage drops (Vdroop). Already there are reports of some insane overclocking on these boards, even with very early BIOSes, so we just had to take a look to see what all the fuss was about.
Abit IP35 Pro Features
Support for LGA775 Intel Core 2 Quad and Core 2 Duo, including 1333/1066/800FSB and 45nm processors;
Intel P35 Northbridge;
Intel ICH9R Southbridge;
Supports up to 8GB of dual channel DDR2 667/800, using four 240-pin, 1.8V DDR2 DIMMs;
Two PCI Express x16 slots (x16 and x4 electrical);
One PCI Express x1 slot;
Three 32-bit v2.3 Master PCI bus slots (support 3.3v/5v PCI bus interface);
One IDE port;
Six SATA 3Gbps ports supporting RAID 0, 1, 0+1, 5 or JBOD;
Realtek ALC888 High-Definition audio codec supporting 7.1 channel surround sound up to 32-bit/192KHz with optical S/PDIF in and out;
Two PCI Gigabit Ethernet controllers provided by the Realtek RTL8105SC chipset;
JMB363 controller supplying one PATA port and two 3Gbps eSATA devices with RAID 0, 1 and JBOD;
Texas Instruments TSB43AB22A IEEE1394a Firewire controller;
Abit uGuru technology.
This may seem like a step backwards, but Abit is actually listening to users who complained they ran too hot and caused CPU voltage drops (Vdroop). Already there are reports of some insane overclocking on these boards, even with very early BIOSes, so we just had to take a look to see what all the fuss was about.
Abit IP35 Pro Features
Support for LGA775 Intel Core 2 Quad and Core 2 Duo, including 1333/1066/800FSB and 45nm processors;
Intel P35 Northbridge;
Intel ICH9R Southbridge;
Supports up to 8GB of dual channel DDR2 667/800, using four 240-pin, 1.8V DDR2 DIMMs;
Two PCI Express x16 slots (x16 and x4 electrical);
One PCI Express x1 slot;
Three 32-bit v2.3 Master PCI bus slots (support 3.3v/5v PCI bus interface);
One IDE port;
Six SATA 3Gbps ports supporting RAID 0, 1, 0+1, 5 or JBOD;
Realtek ALC888 High-Definition audio codec supporting 7.1 channel surround sound up to 32-bit/192KHz with optical S/PDIF in and out;
Two PCI Gigabit Ethernet controllers provided by the Realtek RTL8105SC chipset;
JMB363 controller supplying one PATA port and two 3Gbps eSATA devices with RAID 0, 1 and JBOD;
Texas Instruments TSB43AB22A IEEE1394a Firewire controller;
Abit uGuru technology.