Friday, October 17th 2008
Foxconn Turns on the Heat with X58 Blood Rage
Foxconn has definitely taken serious steps to claim its place in the race for market supremacy with premium motherboards these days. Their high-end motherboard range is diversified into the Digital Life series for the premium all-rounder motherboards, and Quantum-Force for enthusiast and gamer-grade boards. Foxconn's addition to the Quantum-Force series based on the new Nehalem-supportive X58 chipset, is the Blood Rage.
To quickly run you through the features, it is an enthusiast board for overclockers and gamers alike. It only features three DDR3 DIMM slots, while featuring four PCI-Express x16 slots, supporting both ATI CrossfireX and NVIDIA SLI. It supports DDR3 1800 memory (OC), and a 14 phase hybrid CPU power circuit featuring DirectFET MOSFET technology. The board features a 4-in-1 chipset cooler technology, which can serve purposes of a air-cooling (DIY), water-cooling, and cavity for liquid-nitrogen cooling, much like the Black Ops motherboard. Sound is modularised, with a bundled Foxconn SONAR X-Fi sound card. The board supports SAS storage. What a drool!
Source:
VR Zone
To quickly run you through the features, it is an enthusiast board for overclockers and gamers alike. It only features three DDR3 DIMM slots, while featuring four PCI-Express x16 slots, supporting both ATI CrossfireX and NVIDIA SLI. It supports DDR3 1800 memory (OC), and a 14 phase hybrid CPU power circuit featuring DirectFET MOSFET technology. The board features a 4-in-1 chipset cooler technology, which can serve purposes of a air-cooling (DIY), water-cooling, and cavity for liquid-nitrogen cooling, much like the Black Ops motherboard. Sound is modularised, with a bundled Foxconn SONAR X-Fi sound card. The board supports SAS storage. What a drool!
54 Comments on Foxconn Turns on the Heat with X58 Blood Rage
and for everyone complaining about the ramslots, im pretty damn sure when nehalem is released shortly after there will be some 3x4gb memory kits being released, 12gb ftw
Too bad I'm going AMD next. They'd better make an AM3 board with this scheme. :)
Makes Nvidia "Green" with envy.
all I'm gonna say 'bout this board.
Man I would love making an ATi build with this.
that is the sexiest board i have ever seen :rockout:
if your going to push this you wont be wanting to use more than 3 dimms, even tho from all the bm done so far you get little going from 2 to 3 channle so....anyway sexy board..
Not only that, but 4GB DDR3 modules will be around in no time. If you need more than 12GB, you need to be looking at either building a cluster, or a multi cpu workstation. This isn't a board targeted at you anyway.
My opinion - I don't care about the ram slots, but I don't particularly like the expansion slot layout. So far, I like the Asus board that's all 16x PCIe slots the best. If Nehalem OC's well, and so does that Asus board, that's what I'll be getting.
- less bloated/heatpipe-ridden cooling
- max of two PCIe x16 slots
- 2+ PCI slots
- AM2+/AM3 socket
...I would be interested.
Interesting CPU & RAM power converters... DirectFET...
Don't confuse us with people who do nothing but run benchmarks ;)
For power users, 6Gb is barely enough for Windows Server 2008, come Windows 7 8GB+ won't be a waste at all.