 July 25, 2007 – UNIVERSAL ABIT's motherboard, IP35 Pro, receives great compliments from OC3D. The IP35 Pro is given "Editor's Choice" and "Value for Money" Awards, and both awards once again prove the solid quality of the IP35 Pro's performance and overclockablilty.
Based on Intel's P35 chipset, combined with support for the latest 65 nm and the upcoming 45nm Intel Core™ 2 Extreme/Quad/Duo processors, abit's patented Silent-OTES™ Technology, and 100% Solid State Capacitors, the IP35 Pro provides powerful overclocking potentials: "As usual abit have done a sterling job bringing a board out with the P35 chipset. The board is one of the best laid out boards I've seen with very little to fault it and even the heatpipe cooling solution does the job admirably."
The testers from OC3D have great compliments for the abit IP35 Pro as it successfully brings out the best in Intel's IP35 chipset and the Core™ 2 Extreme/Quad/Duo processors. Combined with the sophisticated exclusive abit engineered features and BIOS, this motherboard delivers excellent overclockability and performance: "For the Stability test I ran Orthos which is a dual Prime95 stress test, alongside dual Folding @ Home instances of the console client. To spice this up and really test the board I ran RTHDRIBL alongside this. This is a real test of the boards stability at stock and will show how well it would run in a situation where the board was being stressed to the limit. The board passed with flying colours..no BIOS update needed and indeed it has coped with absolutely everything I have thrown at it."
 abit is keeping the enthusiast with special equipment in mind with a clean board layout that leaves enough room for hardcore cooling: "As I have stated before, the CPU area is pretty well free of any obstacle that would get in the way of a big cooler. In fact I even found that my SwiftTech Apogee GT fitted on the board without messing with the PWM cooling, which is something I have had to do on many other so-called "enthusiast" boards. The heatsinks on the IP35 Pro are pretty decent at heat disappation and the caps low enough not to cause much of an obstruction at all. All in all the layout of the IP35 Pro board was so good I have to compliment abit on this with not much reserve."
After strenuous testing the verdict of the OC3D test team was clear:
 "Overclocking and stability are the boards areas of expertise. The board is incredibly stable and I feel confident that abit are onto a winner with this one. ... 520FSB is a very good figure for a board with stock cooling and no volt-mods. I would not hesitate to recommend this board to anyone who is looking to build an Intel based PC right now."
For more information on the abit IP35 Pro motherboard, go here:
abit IP35 Pro
For the full review, go to:
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