Abit IP35 Dark Raider

[staffsMike]

I believe they are on the i/o panel so you can reach them from the outside of the case.

[BUFF]

the mobo has the header for connecting a Guru Panel or Clock but neither is bundled with the board.


power & reset buttons circled in red
clearCMOS switch is on rear IO panel.
Universal abit > Motherboard, Digital Speakers, iDome, AirPace, Multimedia

[Thorsson]

You might even go for the IP35-E, besides lacking Raid and Firewire it's the dark raider's identical twin.

Didn't we decide that the DR had better capacitors and BIOS?

[BUFF]

same BIOS but I believe that some of the caps may be better than the -E.

[format]

One last question -
Will I need to update the BIOS or does scan ship with the latest?

Thanks guys you've been really helpful.

[Agent]

No idea until you receive it. It will ship with the latest at the time of production, but you don't know how long the board has been in the supply chain

Its easy enough to check when you get it. Its super easy with the Abit Flash menu - you can literally do it all in one click

[format]

Provided it will boot ofc

[BigGlenn]

No idea until you receive it. It will ship with the latest at the time of production, but you don't know how long the board has been in the supply chain

Its easy enough to check when you get it. Its super easy with the Abit Flash menu - you can literally do it all in one click

I don't want to sound negative but I got the Dark Raider for my new build with an E8400 and the board wouldn't even POST with the CPU, and I ended up taking it back to Scan and the board was found to be so old it wouldn't even POST with a 65nm CPU in it, and when the guys at Scan tried to flash the BIOS it wouldn't accept the BIOS flash so I ended up getting a new board and went with an Asus one which was then installed, checked and flashed with no problems

[BUFF]

45nm usable BIOS goes back to December so either SCAN have very poor stock rotation (because I believe that they sell a lot of these mobos & hence will have received new stock in 5 months, probably several times) or more likely it may just have been a faulty board & it was your day to be the unlucky person that received it.
It happens with all mass produced items that some escape into the wild that shouldn't have left the factory.

[Agent]

I don't want to sound negative but I got the Dark Raider for my new build with an E8400 and the board wouldn't even POST with the CPU, and I ended up taking it back to Scan and the board was found to be so old it wouldn't even POST with a 65nm CPU in it, and when the guys at Scan tried to flash the BIOS it wouldn't accept the BIOS flash so I ended up getting a new board and went with an Asus one which was then installed, checked and flashed with no problems

It can happen, but (and correct me if I'm wrong here) the IP35 chipset has supported 65nm from launch. AFAIK there was no BIOS update to enable it specifically.

I'm with Buff on this one, sounds faulty.

[smelly]

One last question -
Will I need to update the BIOS or does scan ship with the latest?

Thanks guys you've been really helpful.

I brought a dark raider last week from Scan it had the 11 bios, I upgraded it to 16.

[Bounty_Bam]

I have this board, I love it.

It has the on screen POST screen 'Abit' pic logo etc

[dagger_meerkat]

Regarding the northbridge cooling with the dark raider, does it give significantly lower temperatures than the ip35-e coz of the heatpipe?

[jamena]

my system (dark raider and q6600 with the default fan) runs at around 30C [ish] for sys and cpu (idle/low-stress) and something like 45+ for the "pwm" ...not sure if that's the north bridge temp?

[dagger_meerkat]

my system (dark raider and q6600 with the default fan) runs at around 30C [ish] for sys and cpu (idle/low-stress) and something like 45+ for the "pwm" ...not sure if that's the north bridge temp?

Nah, the pwm is the top most. What are the temperatures under full load?

[BUFF]

PWM is the board's power supply section.
the Intel northbridge doesn't have a sensor so short of fitting an external one you can't measure the temp.