Saturday, November 8th 2008
Foxconn Quantum-Force Avenger Motherboard Spotted
Foxconn marks its enthusiast and gamer grade motherboards under the Quantum-Force banner. These motherboards are targeted towards overclockers and gamers. Having made a motherboard based on the Nehalem-supportive Blood Rage, the company hasn't made a stop. They've come up with a new motherboard based on the Intel P45 chipset, known as 'Avenger'.
Foxconn claims to have made several changes to the basic design of a motherboard, by pushing the northbridge closer to the DDR2 memory slots (reportedly to cut latencies), and the inclusion of a supplementary PCI-Express switch, to provide dual PCI-Express x16 connections for ATI Crossfire: something not possible with P45 motherboards. The switch chip is made by PLX, and is similar to the one used by AMD on its flagship Radeon HD 4870 X2 graphics card.The CPU VRM area has been pushed on top the north of the CPU socket. The CPU is powered by a 6-phase circuit. The southbridge and PCI-E switch chips are provided with simplistic heatsinks. Foxconn plans to introduce this motherboard in the weeks to come.
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Foxconn claims to have made several changes to the basic design of a motherboard, by pushing the northbridge closer to the DDR2 memory slots (reportedly to cut latencies), and the inclusion of a supplementary PCI-Express switch, to provide dual PCI-Express x16 connections for ATI Crossfire: something not possible with P45 motherboards. The switch chip is made by PLX, and is similar to the one used by AMD on its flagship Radeon HD 4870 X2 graphics card.The CPU VRM area has been pushed on top the north of the CPU socket. The CPU is powered by a 6-phase circuit. The southbridge and PCI-E switch chips are provided with simplistic heatsinks. Foxconn plans to introduce this motherboard in the weeks to come.
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I own a DFI DK P35 and a P53 BLood Iron and the both PWN the OC abilities of Foxconns X38A mobo.
Telling ppl to swap mobo's without any knowledge of what they have in their hands isnt a good thing to do IMHO!
Secondly if your "theory" is right, why does the mars Oc so well then on the release of the X38 it was a retarded bios lacking all sorts of options.
Just a tip, never assume in the PC world, it will only lead to disappointment!