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I'm stuck in the past I guess, I've been using this board with a Q6600 clocked at 3.6g for five years, it's been flawless all this time from one OS to another. Now I'm needing to update my video card and wondering what will even work with this board. Currently using a EVGA GTX 260 and it's not keeping up with my gaming anymore.

Will a EVGA 650Ti 3.0x16 run with this board? I'm running a ASUS 24" monitor and a samsung 46" LED with my two DVI outputs on the GTX 260 that runs off 2-12v rails.

I guess you can see how outdated I am below. oh the good ol days. I had to update to windows 7 for Battlefield Bad Company a few years ago, haha.

Thanks
Steve
 
Yes, that GPU will work on that board.

That's the board I actually used with this Q6600 back in November 07, there were some issues with it and that's around the time when Abit closed up shop so I could not get a hold of them for any kind of RMA.
 
Thanks ballistic. This should get me by until I build something new. Sorry about your experience with Abit.
 
Wow... I haven't heard or seen an Abit board in about 10 years. That brand used to be the cat's ass of motherboards. Oh the memories...
 
The ip35 pro is probably the best last hurrah from a company as well. Simply wonderful board to work with.
 
I have an IP35 PRO in my HTPC system, and it gets used daily.

It was a great board.
 
Have the Abit IP35-E in my fiances old PC with a E8400 clocked at 4ghz stable all day for a couple years now. Great board, I'm sure the PRO is just as good.
 
Abit brings back memories. I still have an Abit X38 QuadGT that is still running. The only thing I never found out was what kind of screw was needed to attach a 40mm fan to the north bridge. I have one on the top heatsink with the clips that took me forever to get from Abit.
 
I haven't logged into this forum for years. But recently I've been researching for my next build and just came across this thread. I've been using (and am still using) my IP35pro/Q6600 combo since '07 at 3.4ghz. It's been flawless and I haven't turned the PC off since I built it. Other than power outages it has run 24/7 the whole time. Love this board.

I was going to just upgrade my video card as well, but after looking at new hardware, I think I'm just gonna build a new machine and throw this rig in the garage. I'll run this mobo for something 'til it dies.
 
It's funny I ran across this thread. Today was the last day of service for my IP35 Pro. It had served me well for a number of years and it was good to me, but the USB and SATA ports started intermittently going dark so it was time to turn the page. It was a good run, thanks Abit!
 
Still rockin' hard w/q6600 and my abit IP35 Pro. Going on 6 full years. What a mobo. What a cpu.

Next? 4770k by the end of September. The boxes for the new build have already started coming in.

I'm going to mothball the q6600/IP35 Pro and keep it ready. Hell, I may give it to a relative. Can't say enough good things about it.
 
I looked at the timelogs in the bios on mine. 52,000 hours and counting. That's 5.9 years running 24/7. Awesome.
 
Installed a EVGA 650TI boost SC 2Gb card, and the MB is still rocking hard and stable. I just can't let go of this board.
 
I guess I spoke too soon, both onboard nics won't connect. Get orange blinking lights plugging into ether port, light on router shows its connected. Tried to remove and let windows reinstall. Device manager says both are working.

Since I have another pic-e slot (that only supports crossfire) will a pci express nic work w/out any problems?
 
I am using a IP35 Pro as I type this. E6750 clocked to 3.2. I have over 50K hours on this board and it is still rock solid, never had any issues. Almost 6 years of 24/7.
I miss Abit, I wish Gigabyte would buy/lease the Uguru patent and incorporate it into their eztune so you can have a small window on desktop for a quick glance at your temps/volts.

I built a new Haswell system but it's too new yet to start loading it up with files so I am sticking with the tried and true Abit.

I thought about just upgrading it but the cost was more then a new build.
The best core2quad cost more then a 4770K and will be destroyed by it.
The board maxes at 8G of ram. Loading up all channels can sometimes not play nice, usually timings have to be relaxed.
Awesome rock solid board for the time, just getting long in the tooth.
Can't play any current games, older games are fine and web browsing is no sweat.
I did remove the copper sink on mine and apply ceramique, helps to keep the temps down even better.

To answer your question though, maybe I just received a bad GPU but 8 months ago I bought a Evga GTX660 to refresh this board. The card was great at 2D but 3D it crashed. It would not even do simple tests like Heaven. The worst part is in XP it hosed my drivers, I can't explain how but I had to manually re-install core drivers. I still have a gray diamond that says "unknown" at the bottom of device manager where all the cores are.
It should have worked but I wonder if V1.1 can handle 3.0 like they claim. One gen back would be fine but two, hard to say. I've read other reviews of people having GTX650's on other boards with v1.1 and no issues.
I went back to my trusty XFX 8800GTS which matches the pcie version.
 
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I did not have any NIC issues when I installed the GTX660. Manually remove the drivers and install the latest Realtek from their site. The latest for this NIC are some 2+ years old though.
I do recall this board the NIC's are routed through the PCI bus, that was one of the negatives.
The 1st pcie is 16x but the 2nd is only 4x max.
I had a Asus SATAIII card in my 4x slot when I installed the 660, maybe I maxed the bandwidth, hard to say for sure.
 
I'll just disable the NICs in the bios and try the pci express NIC, since I got one now. I never used the onboard audio it's always been disabled also..
 
I was going to say if you wanted to update through the PCI using a Intel NIC would suffice but if you are not using the lone PCIE 1x might as well put a network card there, more bandwidth.

I also disabled the onboard sound, still rocking my turtle beach Santa Cruz, love it.
That card might be 10 years old [moved it from my ancient P4 build] but it keeps up with the latest Realtek ALC889 according to realmark. I like the interface, quick to change channels.

Did disabling the onboard NIC's solve your GPU issue?
 
I must have an issue with the OS because I've installed the new NIC and no connection at all. tried new cables directly to the modem and no dice. Only 3 wired devices on my network and this pc is the only one acting up.

Whats crazy is windows 7 now says 3 days left to activate????

Maybe the OEM version doesn't like the new NIC, Video card or the extra 2gigs of memory I threw in there.

I'm backing everything up and buying 7 ultimate and starting over.

If that doesn't work, it's all going in the range bag and I'll use it for target practice.
 
If you installed them all at the same time it's possible it flagged the system. You might have to call MS to verify or reactivate and if it gives you trouble then call. It's a real pain with OEM if you swap too many things too quickly.
So both Realtek nics and one you bought and installed do not work? Do any of these show up in system devices?
If they are being seen by the OS and their driver are loaded they should work.
You must determine if it's a hardware or software issue.
 
The OS was corrupt, got it sorted out. All is good. Thanks for your input, ep0x73.
 
Glad you worked it out, any idea how 7 became corrupt? Did your drive have bad blocks or a virus per chance?
So both Realtek onboard NICs are now working as they should?
Not to say the IP35pro is bulletproof but it had a pretty low failure rate.

At one point I was thinking of getting the more powerful quad for this board but that means updating the bios to 17 or the beta 18, the last one available.

Never had any issue updating bios through floppy but without any backup I really don't want to tinker with it and toast the board.
I do have a floppy drive somewhere but it's so ancient I am not sure I can trust it.

Using 14 since day one, no reason to chance fate now.
 
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