Abit IP35 w/ XFX 6870 2GB

[Uwe]

can anyone tell me if a XFX 6870 2GB card will work on an ABIT IP35 motherboard. I have gone to XFX's website and Google'd to try and find if they are compatible but have not come up with definitive answers.

I recently received a Hanns-G 27.5 1920 x 1200 monitor and my 4890 is having a little trouble running at that resolution. I have about $200 to upgrade. I am playing Skyrim and Rise of Flight. Skyrim does okay but Rise of Flight is a little jerky.

The Abit IP35 has a PCIe x1.0 slot but I know PCIe 2.1 is backward compatible. I have read where another user said it would not run on his socket 775 board but he had an ASUS motherboard.

Thanks,

Uwe

 

[Arkadrel]

Abit IP35

has (just going by newegg):
1 x "PCI Express x16" (even if 2.0) = <-----compatable.
1 x "PCI Express x1"
3 x "PCI Slots"


6870 vs 4890:
~25&#37; more Texel Rate
~80% more Pixel Rate
~9% more memory bandwidth

~26% less power comsumption

So it would be a decent upg for your GPU.... Thinking 30-50% increase in most games, in fps, maybe more.

Also even if the 6870 supports PCI express 2.1,
its still backwards compatable to work with 2.0 version. So yes it ll work.

 

[darckhart]

I had IP35 Pro and IP35E, and iirc, the pcie x16 slot on it supported pcie v1.1, v1.0a, or v1.0 depending when you got the board. That said, I ran a 4870x2 (pcie v2.0 card) in there with no problems on v1.0a, and currently have a NV GT240 (pcie v2.0) in there running fine. (I assume the 6870 is pcie v2.1.) However, at the time, I recall there were many people who DID have probs using pcie v2.0 cards in there. It was hit or miss.

I tried looking up the abit posts, but the forums are dead now I guess. In any case, here's another link that still works that may be informative:
http://www.google.com/translate?u=h...ssages/1241374/0&langpair=nl|en&hl=en&ie=UTF8

 

[VirtualLarry]

My friend had an IP35-E, and he upgraded from a 9600GSO to a GTX460 768MB card, and then I upgraded him to a quad-core Q8200 from an E5200, and managed to screw up the mobo, so I put in a spare IP35 (vanilla) that I had purchased off of the FS/FT forum.

So both the IP35 and IP35-E boards are compatible with PCI-E 2.0 graphics cards.

At home, I'm running a Gigabyte P35-DS3R v1.0, which is P35 and PCI-E 1.0/1.1, and it runs a GTX460 1GB OC just fine.

I would say that you should have no problems dropping in a PCI-E 2.0/2.1 GPU.