ABIT IP35 Pro Desktop Motherboard - Intel P35 Express Chipset - Socket T LGA-775

Easy to Work With

Strengths: This was my first time building a computer from scratch. This board made it easy, everything laid out in logical positions, instructions made everything easy to locate. The uguru feature is great.

Weakness: The uguru program is alittle hard to work with, the GUI does not allow you mess with any of your settings you have to do that in a dialogue box.

So far this board has made it too easy to overclock my X3210. Just a few clicks here and your processor is overclocked. From the factory ABIT has it set so your processor is slightly overclocked wich is nice I guess. Only thing that botthers me is the motherboard stays lit (red led and post readout) when the computer is off. Overall I cant complain at all

By pitch4pd - Oct 19, 2007

Smooth like a breeze

Strengths: Stability,Ability to overclock, very efficent cooling system

Weakness: only 1 pci express 1x slot, the additional pci express power jack is located at a very inconvinient place

Overall, this is a great motherboard, if not the best. The quality of this board is great. Put a q6600 on it, OC'ed to 350x9 without touching anything in the bios. Mounted a tuniq tower 120(it's huge) without any problem. It runs fast and cool. The major complaint of mine is the location of the additional pci express power jack. it's below one of the pci slot and I basically can't install any pci...
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Overall, this is a great motherboard, if not the best. The quality of this board is great. Put a q6600 on it, OC'ed to 350x9 without touching anything in the bios. Mounted a tuniq tower 120(it's huge) without any problem. It runs fast and cool.
The major complaint of mine is the location of the additional pci express power jack. it's below one of the pci slot and I basically can't install any pci device there because of the space limit. And I dont' like the way how the pata cable and sata data cable sockets are oriented.It's just hard to plug those cables.

By horsecca_1102262893 - Oct 9, 2007

Cool and Excellent MB for the money

Strengths: Cool design & temp, 3 PCI slots on top of 2 PCI-e x16. Great Price for what you get. BIOS is easily updatable & flashable with external switch. Nothing to remove from the backside to fit the heatsink.

Weakness: The firewire connection on MB gets blocked with large video cards (the ones that take 2 slots). Side facing SATA ports and only 6 of them. 2nd PCI-e x16 is limited for full Crossfire.

This is an excellent MB. I bought the low end P35-E and liked it so much, I bought the high end P35Pro as well. You get eSATA, heatpipes, 3 PCI slots (the main reason I didnt buy the Gigabyte's P35 DS3P). Other P35 MBs with heatpipes will cost over $200 but this MB is nicely priced. You get all the features you'd expect from high end MBs at moderate price. Although it has it's share of cons, as...
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This is an excellent MB. I bought the low end P35-E and liked it so much, I bought the high end P35Pro as well. You get eSATA, heatpipes, 3 PCI slots (the main reason I didnt buy the Gigabyte's P35 DS3P). Other P35 MBs with heatpipes will cost over $200 but this MB is nicely priced. You get all the features you'd expect from high end MBs at moderate price. Although it has it's share of cons, as long as you dont plan to do SLI or Crossfire (since limited) setup, this is one of the best MB to get.

By hwoarangsx - Aug 22, 2007

IP35 Pro

Strengths: Awesome overclocking, LED Diagnostic Screen on motherboard, supports fsb 1333, CMOS RESET on outside of motherboard. 4 pin power connectors.

Weakness: no ddr3 support. wish led diagnostic could show cpu temp. color scheme is off (Red light, green light, green diagnostic)

This has been the best motherboard I have ever worked with. For starters the overclocking is amazing and when i do push the board too far and my computer wont boot up, what do i do? I push up a little switch on the back of the motherboard outside the case and push it back down and im all set to go. Sounds Amazingly simple? Well it is. This makes it worth the money for me. In addition restart and...
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This has been the best motherboard I have ever worked with. For starters the overclocking is amazing and when i do push the board too far and my computer wont boot up, what do i do? I push up a little switch on the back of the motherboard outside the case and push it back down and im all set to go. Sounds Amazingly simple? Well it is. This makes it worth the money for me. In addition restart and power switches are on the motherboard. LEd diagnostic isnt used too much. The heatsinks do not block the way of my ultra 120 extreme heatsink so thats a plus. Plenty of 3/4 pin fan connectors. Bios update took awhile to come out with.

By hackztor - Aug 7, 2007

Great Motherboard, Choose this NOT ASUS P5K

Strengths: Heatsink, DDR2, uniQue Sata port :) support QUAD Core, CMOS Button in the back

Weakness: uquru software is a little buggy, but who cares as long as the board stay solid. Ethernet LAN is on PCI not PCI-xpress

I was debating between Asus P5K deluxe WIFI vs This board and finally after doing lots and lots of searching on the internet, reading over reviews after reviews and comments from happy AND Unhappy users, i finally decide to purchase this board because for me the + outweigh the -. The price is $40-50 cheaper than average p35 board so you can use it to buy other components.

By Anonymous - Aug 12, 2007