Experience of Abit IP43 mobo, anyone?

[BUFF]

from what I've read production P43s are doing 400-425fsb which should be more than enough for an E5200 with it's 12.5 multi.

[Pob255]

Still cannot find any review of it
although I found this report from computex 2008
http://www.hardwarezone.com.au/revie...cid=18&id=2576

I like the look of the ip43Pro, shame it's not on sale anyware

[BUFF]

with abit's decision to pull out of mobo manufacture I guess that they decided not to put the IP43 Pro & the IP45 series into production.
Shame as I think that the IP45 Pro/GT would have been an excellent mobo

[Pob255]

Well I've seen a spread from 380-420 fsb
but yes somehow I doubt I'd be able to get a e5200 to 400fsb, shame as that would be a potential 5.0 ghz

Looked at 5200 oc looks like 3.2ghz 1.24v (which I think is stock v) but 3.7ghz at 1.42v and a little toasty.

Think the mosfet on the pi35 would need cooling?

[Webby]

The Mosfets on my G33M-DS2R have no cooling aids at all (only the rear 120mm fan, as my CPU, NB and GPU are all watercooled the is not even other fans nearby moving the air) and they seem to be happy enough, my CPU is running at 3.5GHz (500MHz FSB) at 1.33v (BIOS, 1.28v under load CPUZ), but since my board is limited to 532MHz FSB and my processor only has a 7x multi (3.725GHz) which it will hit at 1.4v BIOS I don't think my Mosfets are really all that stressed.

[Pob255]

with abit's decision to pull out of mobo manufacture I guess that they decided not to put the IP43 Pro & the IP45 series into production.
Shame as I think that the IP45 Pro/GT would have been an excellent mobo

WHAT . . . how the heck did I miss that bombshell.

Explanes the shortage on IP35's as well

Is there a thread about that someplace webby?

EDIT:Found it

[Vroomparrot]

I'm almost certain that i'm going to go down the Core2Duo route over the next month or so, instead of waiting for Core i7, given the likely cost.
It'll have to be cheap as chips, but i want
a) reliability (which in my mind requires an Intel chipset)
b) some level of overclocking (eg a 2.5Ghz chip to 3Ghz is fine)
c) not overly interested in 'features' such as RAID, or legacy ports that i'd never use.

Am currently therefore looking at Abit's IP43 which Scan have for a bargain-licious £46.
Team up with an E5200 and 2 Gig of RAM, and £130 makes me a happy bunny, plus £15 for an AC Freezer CPU HSF.

Given this sort of budget, is there any other motherboard within approx £20 that i should be seriously considering? A Super-wak luminous orange "ova-clox like a muver" is of no interest to me, if it's not good value for money. Thanks, as always, in advance.

PS Check out my current system spec, everything other than Mobo, RAM, CPU is staying

I'm in the same position as you - looking for a reasonably priced core2duo Intel chipset mobo. After Googleing the difference between ip43 and ip45 I came across this thread (I guess I should have just looked here first ) and I'm now convinced ip43 is the way to go. I prefer the looks of this MSI board (not in stock though):

http://www.scan.co.uk/Product.aspx?W...SATA+II%2c+ATX

It supports 1066 DDR2 whereas the Abit doesn't and more importantly for me it has twice the memory capacity at 16GB (I intend to have this system to last me 5 years, with upgrades to memory and graphics).

There is a short review of the board here:
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/shopper/labs/...-p43-neof.html

[BUFF]

memory support should primarily be a function of the chipset & hence if the MSI does I would expect the abit IP43 to also support DDR2 1066 & 16GB .
Intel don't show official DDR2 1066 support for either P43 or P45 (this could of course be because there isn't a JEDEC DDR2 1066 spec) http://compare.intel.com/pcc/showcha...&culture=en-US so I guess that MSI are taking the DDR2 1066 support upon themselves.

[Pob255]

On top of that you don't need 1066mhz memory if you pair up a p43 with a e5200 as the cpu is going to cap out long before you hit pc6400 stock speeds.
If you use a 266mhz based cpu like the q6600 then you'll reach the stock pc6400 speeds, for a nice overclock.
You only really want to go higher on the memory when looking at more extreem overclocks and you'd not want to use a budget board for extreem overclocking anyway.

[c0rwin]

I'm almost certain that i'm going to go down the Core2Duo route over the next month or so, instead of waiting for Core i7, given the likely cost.
It'll have to be cheap as chips, but i want
a) reliability (which in my mind requires an Intel chipset)
b) some level of overclocking (eg a 2.5Ghz chip to 3Ghz is fine)
c) not overly interested in 'features' such as RAID, or legacy ports that i'd never use.

Am currently therefore looking at Abit's IP43 which Scan have for a bargain-licious £46.
Team up with an E5200 and 2 Gig of RAM, and £130 makes me a happy bunny, plus £15 for an AC Freezer CPU HSF.

Given this sort of budget, is there any other motherboard within approx £20 that i should be seriously considering? A Super-wak luminous orange "ova-clox like a muver" is of no interest to me, if it's not good value for money. Thanks, as always, in advance.

PS Check out my current system spec, everything other than Mobo, RAM, CPU is staying

as you can see here : http://forums.hexus.net/abit-care-he...ml#post1617064
I had a hard time getting the IP43 to work properly on Vista...
Honestly I would not recommand this board at all... It's not too bad, O/C is good I would say, but you won't get any support from ABIT... in the long run it would be a bad thing

[Time Bandit]

. . . looking at Abit's IP43 which Scan have for a bargain-licious £46.

There will probably be other Abit bargains to be had if they are going to stop making motherboards. They say they will offer support for the next three years which is probably long enough for many. Although I do wonder how intensively the Update Department will be working in a year or so.