**Official ABIT IX38 QuadGT Review/Overclock/Guide Thread**

[Blitzen]

Just bought one

Couldnt resist any longer.

[Supershanks]

Couldnt resist any longer.

you hung out long enough

luck

[BUFF]

lmk how it goes.
btw there are posts of people starting to get the fan clips so hound Sean or whoever for them.

[Blitzen]

Will do.
Any spares that should be there that are left out i will be chasing.

[Supershanks]

Any spares that should be there that are left out i will be chasing.

hope you didnb't give away all those usb brackets

[Blitzen]

hope you didnb't give away all those usb brackets

I did
But i never use them anyway....(thank gawd).

4 ports at the back and two on the front of my case will be plenty.

BTW.......when i first use the board to boot up and load Vista, is there anything i should know.

eg.
- Will i be able to load Vista on the shipped bios?
- Will all my sata stuff work or will i need to load drivers for them beforehand? (rather than after Vista install)
If not, is there a floppy for the sata drivers so i can 'RAID UP' on the install?

Cheers fella

[Supershanks]

Will i be able to load Vista on the shipped bios?

should be fine but official bios 12
is best.
I'm on xp but best follow this Vista Instyall for RAID.

[BUFF]

If not, is there a floppy for the sata drivers so i can 'RAID UP' on the install?

I would have thought that Vista had RAID drivers for ICH9R.
if not though the system CD should now have a driver floppy creator utility that you can run from it & it will copy them to a floppy for you.

[Blitzen]

Cheers fellas.

[Robbo770]

I loaded 64 bit Vista ultimate first and then 32 bit as more of my programs were compatible with it, and the supplied Abit m/b disc did all it had to even for the raid, to acouple of goes and away it went happy as larry!!, beats what beta 1 ones like thats for sure,


only concerns I have is with the networking and internet access with vista ,

ITS Horrendous with security everywhere!!!!

all best, great board, slowly clocking up the Quad 6850 EE!!!

Rob

[Robbo770]

SEAN ANY update on the missing Fan Clips for us heat hungry Guys!!!!

cheers Rob in Aberdeen, Please send out to me asap...

[Blitzen]

I loaded 64 bit Vista ultimate first and then 32 bit as more of my programs were compatible with it, and the supplied Abit m/b disc did all it had to even for the raid, to acouple of goes and away it went happy as larry!!, beats what beta 1 ones like thats for sure,


only concerns I have is with the networking and internet access with vista ,

ITS Horrendous with security everywhere!!!!

all best, great board, slowly clocking up the Quad 6850 EE!!!

Rob

I havent got any problems with Vista as i have prolly installed it 20+ times now.

BTW...I have just checked the CD and all the Vista drivers are there

Cant wait to get home and get to work now

[Myrmeleon]

Hi,

I have just purchased an Abit IX38 and I would want to combine us an Intel E8400.
I probably will find in my mother card the bios 11, with this bios the motherboard will recognize the same the cpu?
Have i read on the site Abit that this cpu is exactly recognized by the bios 12, in this case as i can make the bios to flash?
With the bios 11 the motherboard allows me to make the flash to the version 12 however?
I answer this because i don't eventually have a cpu of support with which to enter in the bios and to operate the flash to the version 12 with a floppy disk....

Thanks for your support


Rome, Italy

[Myrmeleon]

I have resolved thanks to a new clear of the CMOS, the settings now maintain also him after having extinguished the pc from the PSU!

[Snake007uk]

Guys, I should be getting my board and all my stuff Q6600 on friday, I have already downloaded the latest drivers for the board from Abit and also the latest bios (got a bootable usb flash drive ready )

I have uGuru downloaded also

Anything else I should download. I want to install the SATA drives using ACHI, so i have put the drivers on the USB stick which vista should pick up? Are all these drivers signed so they should work with Vista 64bit?

Also any tips on overclocking, I would be happy with 3.2GHZ from my Q6600 what would I need to achieve this?

[Blitzen]

To go to 3.2ghz, just raise the FSB.
You shouldnt have to increase volts (or maybe i just got lucky)

Also, if you are using PC6400 RAM, set the divider to 1:1:25 so the memory runs fairly close to around 820mhz