Monday, July 7th 2008
FOXCONN Renaissance X58 Nehalem Motherboard First Look
The crew over at Tom's Hardware is taking an exclusive look at a fully assembled Nehalem system that consists of a FOXCONN X58 motherboard and a Nehalem CPU. Details on the platform and the new architecture are already well detailed so I'll skip them. It's the motherboard that's cool and worth looking. That's FOXCONN's reference board powered by Intel's X58 chipset and ICH10-R southbridge, the same used on today's Intel P45 platforms. ICH-10 supplies up to four PCI Express x16 paths, of which two, are PCI Express 2.0. FOXCONN's Renaissance board also allows up to 24GB of DDR3 memory to be installed on 6 slots. With Nehalem, the memory is running in triple-channel mode (the name is pretty self explanatory). Initially the motherboard will support DDR3-800, 1066 and 1333 configurations. The Renaissance also has six SATA 3.0 Gbps ports, Realtek ALC888S 7.1 channel audio and a Gigabit Ethernet. Speaking to the other motherboard features, they include the usual heatpipe cooling for the chipset, solid ultra-low SR capacitors, debugging LED lights, clear CMOS button round the backplate and a six-phase power circuit design. Expect benchmarks and price information when the official launch date of Nehalem approaches.
Source:
Tom's Hardware
11 Comments on FOXCONN Renaissance X58 Nehalem Motherboard First Look
i cant wait. i'll hold out for the asus x58 though.
Other than that it looks pretty well spaced out / laid out
so much work down the drain.
It looks pretty exciting.
Eitherway, I'm looking forward to the inital results of Nehalem/Bloomfield on retail models, where they're not using a single DIMM or limited to Dual Channel. We can only wait... :(
And as for the cooler, unless its a dual slot card, it shouldnt hit it. Even then, it may be ok with about 5cm of space. I think its a depth perception.
There's a frontal pic of the Foxconn there.