Abit IP35-E and E6300 2.8Ghz

[Bobsama]

Bobsama

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Get the modded bios, it fixes half multipliers and the 98 degrees error - it helped me with E6300 and IP35,

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To be honest the motherboard reporting 98C doesn't bother me too much. Turn off the alarm and set max CPU fan speed to 50% (I have a Scythe Infinity and am using the stock 12cm S-FLEX "F" fan) and I'm off to the races. In fact, I've managed 400*10 now, though I will try flashing to that new BIOS right about now. The only thing is my chip is an R0 stepping chip, not an M0 chip.

Check out id=934454 on That CPU-Z Validator. I don't like how high I have the voltages set, however. Anyways, will this modded BIOS work and allow me to adjust the more advanced/specific settings? I noticed them lacking before. I'm grabbing V-PC right now and the XP Mode thing from M$. I love 2-3mb/s download rates! Like 2 minutes to grab 500 megs. =)

Anyways, I'll upgrade the BIOS and report back. I'm quite happy that the IP35-E is allowing this Wolfdale to run; it saves me $75 on a new board, which is half a graphics card (I was thinking a Radeon HD 5750 or HD 5770). Funny thing is if I had $700, I MIGHT be able to fit a HD 5970 in this chassis; I measured 12.25" clearance which means that, with a file and some time, I would be able to sand off some of the plastic shroud. But I won't need to, since I don't have $700. And if I did have $700, I would NOT spend it on a single graphics card; I'd upgrade to a Core i5-750.

EDIT: 400*10.5 isn't working. Heat's not an issue but I am uncomfortable giving a wolfdale 1.55vcore. B'sides, 4GHz is fast enough I guess. I did get Intel-VT options, though, so I am happy about that.

[ars92]

so this means that a pdc e6300 can run perfectly on a ip35-e with the ver 18 bios?

what a relief......(albeit the 98 c thing but that not really a big deal

[kater-acme]

Official 18 will not give you half multipliers and EIST. But, yes, otherwise E6300 works just fine.

[Bobsama]

I don't know about all revisions of the board (I have Rev1.01) but yes, Official 18 doesn't give half-multipliers, EIST, OR Virtualization (I'm not sure about the last, but it wasn't reported on CPU-Z and wasn't an option in the BIOS).

I'd say just go ahead and flash to the modified BIOS. And the problems & solutions of course are shared between IP35 and IP35-E.

[Bobsama]

Here's a better question...

I have the E6300 running still on my IP35-E (3800MHz=400*9.5), but is there a beta that DOES support Virtualization? It's reported correctly thru CPU-Z (Instructions: MMX, SSE(1,2,3,3S),EM64T,VT-x) but I don't think hardware Virtualization is working; Windows 7 Pro's XP Mode refuses to work. I'm trying it again but *shrug*.

[Temi_D]

XP mode doesnt require hardware virtualisation to work anymore, it has been updated.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/vir.../download.aspx