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.
37 Comments on Foxconn Quantum-Force Avenger Motherboard Spotted
The PLX chip is the same one AMD uses on the HD 4870 X2, where it does dual-GPU + GPU peer-to-peer switching:
In this particular board, the same model remains, just that the switch chip provides leads to two full-on PCI-E x16 slots:
Hypothetically two HD 4870 1G cards should give exactly the same level of performance as a 4870 X2, this board could be used to study how different ATI GPUs behave in an "X2" setup. More in this whitepaper: www.plxtech.com/pdf/product_briefs/PEX8647_Product_Brief_v0%2095_16Jun08.pdf
P45 is a way better clocker than X48, but X48 was the only one that wouldn't hold back your 4870x2's :D
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE release a mATX version!!! :rockout:
And almost everyone knows that it's easier to get a higher FSB on a P35/P45 board versus an X38/X48 board. Not to be rude, but have you tried both yourself? I have.Aww pooh. I thought these Quantum-Force ones were supposed to be pretty legit with BIOS options. Well, hopefully other companies (*cough*ASUS*cough*DFI*cough*) will follow suit.
Sorry Im a bit bitter at their half-assery and piss poor quality control!
whats the general experieince with foxconn mobo,s everyone knows mine with my video card.
You can get a ton of Foxconn boards there.
IN FACT. I think they have one with two 16x slots already
www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813186153
Its got that chip between the slots..
EDIT: fit (aka mister poopy pants) says no.
AMD well... customer support i hate them, i'd seriously say 3/10.
wow i could of made a thread about this subject... now there's an idea, lol