This review is from: ABIT IP35 Pro LGA 775 Intel P35 ATX Intel Motherboard Pros: So I bought this board 5 or 6 years ago. It keeps track of how much on time you've had, and this board has over 29,000 hours of on time and over 51,000 hours of time being plugged in. I used it as my main PC for 4 or 5 years and now it is in a new case as an HTPC running windows 8.1. Very tough, lots of options in BIOS, overclocks well too. Many connectivity options. The board has a 2 digit LCD readout for diagnosing problems when you get no image on the monitor. Look up the code displayed on the readout in the manual and find out what the problem is. VERY handy. Cons: Can be a bit finicky about boot devices. Sometimes it fails to see the hard drive after you've been changing things around inside even though it is securely plugged in, and really the only way I've found to fix it is to plug the hard drive into a different SATA port. Also, it has no boot menu. If you want to boot from a different device, you must go into BIOS. Abit is, of course, out of business. Their uguru chip in the board is no longer supported by anything newer than vista and will bluescreen if you try to install drivers (leave it disabled). I wouldn't care much about this except that motherboards with the uguru chips don't tend to work with programs like Speedfan, so with this board there is no way to manage fan speeds from Windows unless you have vista or older. The Bios options for fans are better than most, however, allowing you to set fan voltages from 8v-12v and vary based on CPU, PWM, or system temperature with individual control for all of the fans (1 CPU fan and 4 AUX fans I think). Other Thoughts: If you are using a CPU cooler with more than one fan, the AUX1 and AUX2 headers are near the CPU header, so that's handy. One reason I bought this board was that it used all solid capacitors, and not many other.
Abit IP35 Pro is high-end motherboard based on the latest Intel mainstream chipset, P35, featuring several extra features like passive cooling with two heat-pipes (called Silent OTES by Abit two Gigabit Ethernet ports, two Fire Wire ports, on-board optical SPDIF inputs and outputs, two x16 PCI Express slots, two e SATA ports, diagnostics display, solid aluminum capacitors and several other minor features. Let’s see the features and performance from this new release from Abit. Figure 1: Abit IP35 Pro motherboard. Intel P35 succeeds Intel P965 chipset, being targeted to mainstream motherboards. The difference between these two chipsets is the support for DDR3 memories and the new 1,333 MHz bus on P35. Please note that DDR3 support does not mean that all motherboards based on P35 accept DDR3 memories: since DDR2 and DDR3 sockets are different, is up to the manufacturer to decide which kind of memories the motherboard will accept. IP35 Pro, for example, only accepts DDR2 memories. We think that’s ok, since DDR3 memories are still not so easy to find and the performance gain is questionable. Officially Intel P35 chipset supports DDR2 memories up to DDR2-800 and DDR3 memories up to DDR3-1066. However, just like it happens with Intel P965 chipset, P35 unofficially supports DDR2-1066 and we could set our DDR2-1066 memories to run at 1,066 MHz without any problem. On this motherboard sockets 1 and 3 are blue and 2 and 4 are black, so to enable dual channel feature just install your memory modules on sockets with the same color. This motherboard supports up to 8 GB of RAM. Another difference between P35 and P965 is the south bridge chip. Intel P965 uses ICH8 chip, while P35 uses the new ICH9 chip, which comes in four flavors. The vanilla ICH9 is identical to the “old” ICH8 chip found on Intel P965 chipset but supporting 12 USB 2.0 ports instead of 10. The ICH9 R variant, which.
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