The Best P35 boards, which to go for?

The Abit does look good but if their recent record is any indication, the BIOS'es are going to be immature and a long time coming so I would hold off on trying it personally.
 
gchanjam said:
The Abit does look good but if their recent record is any indication, the BIOS'es are going to be immature and a long time coming so I would hold off on trying it personally.
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Actually, Abit got the QuadGT in nice shape quite early. By the second Beta Bios dated Jan. 19, 2007, two weeks or so after its official release, in fact. Beat the hell out of Asus when I ran a Striker Extreme. So, as I've said elsewhere, I'll be first in line for the IP35 Pro, and if there's a hit to be taken, then it's Pepsi who'll take it for you and let you know. But there won't be. ;)
 
hmmm looks like X38 is going to support DDR2 and DDR3. Looks like im pushing my build back to July/August :(
 
abit, DFI & Gigabyte at least are all doing DDR2 versions of X38.
I think that the Abit IX38 QuadGT may well be my next mobo :)
 
BUFF said:
abit, DFI & Gigabyte at least are all doing DDR2 versions of X38.
I think that the Abit IX38 QuadGT may well be my next mobo :)
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That would definitely be on my short list.

Over/Under $250 at launch :p.
 
Pepsiennis said:
Actually, Abit got the QuadGT in nice shape quite early. By the second Beta Bios dated Jan. 19, 2007, two weeks or so after its official release, in fact. Beat the hell out of Asus when I ran a Striker Extreme. So, as I've said elsewhere, I'll be first in line for the IP35 Pro, and if there's a hit to be taken, then it's Pepsi who'll take it for you and let you know. But there won't be. ;)
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Well, the QuadGT was their second effort at the 965 chipset. The AB9 Pro was abysmal for the first few months. The name IP35 Pro just has me shuttering after my AB9 experience :(. Of course, I have a IB9 that works perfectly fine, and I've heard nothing but good things about the QuadGT, but both are 2nd gen 965 boards. From what I understand the same thing was true with the AN8/KN8 boards. AN8 were buggy (I had one of these of course ;) ), KN8 were fine. I'm going to wait and see with Abit's first gen.
 
kirbyrj said:
Well, the QuadGT was their second effort at the 965 chipset. The AB9 Pro was abysmal for the first few months. The name IP35 Pro just has me shuttering after my AB9 experience :(. Of course, I have a IB9 that works perfectly fine, and I've heard nothing but good things about the QuadGT, but both are 2nd gen 965 boards. From what I understand the same thing was true with the AN8/KN8 boards. AN8 were buggy (I had one of these of course ;) ), KN8 were fine. I'm going to wait and see with Abit's first gen.
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Hey kirbyrj,
I understand your thinking completely, but as I'm interested to see if abit is really 'back' or just got lucky, I went ahead and ordered my IP35-Pro today and it should be here in about a week and I can start sharing a bit about that board. I'm keeping in mind the first month or so will probably be a little rough until a Bios or two later, but that's the case with about every new board, let alone chipset. Regardless, it promises to be an interesting early-summer fling! :p
 
Pepsiennis said:
Hey kirbyrj,
I understand your thinking completely, but as I'm interested to see if abit is really 'back' or just got lucky, I went ahead and ordered my IP35-Pro today and it should be here in about a week and I can start sharing a bit about that board. I'm keeping in mind the first month or so will probably be a little rough until a Bios or two later, but that's the case with about every new board, let alone chipset. Regardless, it promises to be an interesting early-summer fling! :p
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I look forward to hearing your thoughts on the board ;).
 
kirbyrj said:
From what I understand the same thing was true with the AN8/KN8 boards. AN8 were buggy (I had one of these of course ;) )
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I had 1 of the first AN8 Ultras in Europe & considerably before they arrived in the USA.
It's been a superb mobo & in fact I'm still running it when all the other AMD mobos have gone because it's just been too good (stable, fast, quiet, decent overclocker [~325fsb without changing chipset voltages, more if you fiddle]).
It's shortly going to a new home in the family because I won't sell it.

AN8 32X was great too (better than my DFI SLI-DR) whilst I was experimenting with SLI - decided that I prefer a single really good card though which is why it went.
 
snowysnowcones said:
Anybody know how these Intel boards overclock? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813121314
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"Only the SHADOW knows... Ooh-Wah-ha-ha-ha-Ha!"

OK, seriously, I don't have the first clue as it's as new as any other P35, but it looks like Intel's, ahem... 'prosaic' effort, so most likely it won't do too much. They'll probably want to push their X38 performance board. What's it called? BoneDatTail? No, wait, he's that Detroit rapper. Oh, Bonetrail. It's called Bonetrail!
 
BUFF said:
I had 1 of the first AN8 Ultras in Europe & considerably before they arrived in the USA.
It's been a superb mobo & in fact I'm still running it when all the other AMD mobos have gone because it's just been too good (stable, fast, quiet, decent overclocker [~325fsb without changing chipset voltages, more if you fiddle]).
It's shortly going to a new home in the family because I won't sell it.

AN8 32X was great too (better than my DFI SLI-DR) whilst I was experimenting with SLI - decided that I prefer a single really good card though which is why it went.
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I had the AN8-SLI board. It just didn't OC very well compared to my DFI Ultra-D. I think it was just a bios issue personally.
 
kirbyrj said:
I had the AN8-SLI board. It just didn't OC very well compared to my DFI Ultra-D. I think it was just a bios issue personally.
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know a couple of guys that hit 400fsb (BIOS limit) on AN8 SLIs ...

Good news is that the IP35 Pro looks solid out of the gate.
1st report says that it's completely stable at stock, multi is unlocked for Quads & no problems re. USB support by BIOS or OS selection.
Hadn't had a chance to oc yet though.
 
kirbyrj said:
I look forward to hearing your thoughts on the board ;).
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Hi Kirbyrj!
Well, I've been running the IP35 Pro for about 10 days, and it is an incredible board! The QuadGT was fabulous, but its shipping Bios had a few quirks and you had to flash Bios first thing to get it in shape. No such worry with the IP35 Pro: out of the box it set up without a problem Tuniq fit without a problem (and with plenty of room for fingers to find the Tuniq mounting screws). After installing Vista Ultimate 64 without a hitch, I got my 24/7 mild OC to 3.2 going just by raising Vcore from 1.2375 to 1.2675, Orthos stable after two hours (which is long enough for my purposes), didn't have to touch MCH or ICH or any other voltage except for the Vdimm for RAM specs. After ten days of playing it hasn't given me a blue screen yet... It's flat out an awesome board. I highly recommend it to anyone considering moving to a P35 board, plus it's noticably cheaper than some other alternatives while OCing at least as well if not better (going by user reports around the web). As far as I'm concerned, Abit is definitely back, and when DDR3 is ready (price/performance), I'll look to Abit for my X38 board. My hat is off to Abit for the turn around... now don't get lazy, keep it GOING! :p
 
I just want to let people know that right now the P35 motherboards are way ahead of the C2D that max overclock will depend on the CPU and not the motherboard..... I think all these mobos will do 600fsb, the question is, can your cpu?

I got the IP35 as well and this thing is just too easy to run, but I guess I can say that to any mobo cos my last mobo was the 965-s :D .... 2nd boot was at 520fsb and never looked back..... All dividers seems to be working fine even at 500fsb+ and me really love the new 5:6 divider...... If anything, I think they could have given us more vmch, also setfsb doesnt look like itll be working in this board... Im starting to like uguru more and more now though.....

Asus can kiss my ass and wont be getting any of my $$$ right now, or in the near future.....:D
 
Pepsiennis said:
Hi Kirbyrj!
Well, I've been running the IP35 Pro for about 10 days, and it is an incredible board! The QuadGT was fabulous, but its shipping Bios had a few quirks and you had to flash Bios first thing to get it in shape. No such worry with the IP35 Pro: out of the box it set up without a problem Tuniq fit without a problem (and with plenty of room for fingers to find the Tuniq mounting screws). After installing Vista Ultimate 64 without a hitch, I got my 24/7 mild OC to 3.2 going just by raising Vcore from 1.2375 to 1.2675, Orthos stable after two hours (which is long enough for my purposes), didn't have to touch MCH or ICH or any other voltage except for the Vdimm for RAM specs. After ten days of playing it hasn't given me a blue screen yet... It's flat out an awesome board. I highly recommend it to anyone considering moving to a P35 board, plus it's noticably cheaper than some other alternatives while OCing at least as well if not better (going by user reports around the web). As far as I'm concerned, Abit is definitely back, and when DDR3 is ready (price/performance), I'll look to Abit for my X38 board. My hat is off to Abit for the turn around... now don't get lazy, keep it GOING! :p
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Thanks for the input. Maybe I'll check it out if I decide to get rid of my 975X board (It's hard because it works so well ;) ).
 
Does anyone have any experience with the budget versions of these boards? The P5K non-deluxe, the Gigabyte DS3, the IP35-E

Based on reviews like this one and this one the DS6 seems highly overpriced.

Am I missing something? Do the other budget boards follow the same pattern?
 
p5k seems to do well in benches. Not as well as the deluxe.

if you plan on overclocking get the deluxe.
 
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