Foxconn Quantum-Force Blood Rage Release Grade Motherboard Pictured

[btarunr]

Quantum Force is the series of motherboards by Foxconn aimed at serious overclockers, enthusiasts, and gamers alike. Blood Rage is the name of the motherboard Foxconn plans to release, that's based on Intel's newest X58 Express chipset, supporting the upcoming Core i7 processors from Intel.

This motherboard first came to light last week, when a few quick low-resolution snaps were passed on to the internet (covered here). VR-Zone now put up high resolution images, that reveal a lot more about this motherboard. Full-resolution versions of the first picture can be viewed here, and that of the second picture here.



The motherboard emphasizes on a straightforward DIY design, that gives users quick access to all its features. It includes a DIY motherboard cooling kit and a case control panel. The images show that the CPU socket has 90mm mount-holes for supporting LGA-775 coolers. This could be especially nice if you have an expensive TEC unit or copper LN2/dry-ice cavity that you've maintained for your LGA-775 machine all this while, or pretty-much any cooler you don't like letting go of. The CPU area also reveals high-grade digital PWM power circuitry, with the board being studded with high-grade components throughout.

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[btarunr]

Many Thanks to Cheesemonkey for sending this in.

 

[PaulieG]

This is my board when I move over to N.

 

[DOM]

looks like they did a crappy job on putting the phases, ones by the bloodrage hs

 

[WarEagleAU]

I just cant express my feelings on this board....

 

[Scrizz]

what's up with the 2 sets of mounting holes for the cpu cooler?

 

[DOM]

what's up with the 2 sets of mounting holes for the cpu cooler?

so you can use your 775 cooler im thinking

 

[btarunr]

what's up with the 2 sets of mounting holes for the cpu cooler?

You can use a LGA1366 or a LGA775 cooler. They know it hurts letting go of a nice s775 cooler.

 

[kid41212003]

You can't Tri-SLI on this mobo, the PCI-E are too close!
EDIT: Unless you use WC for your vga cards... =\

 

[Fitseries3]

wasnt this posted like a week ago?

EDIT: ok... i see.

http://www.techpowerup.com/74043/Foxconn_Turns_on_the_Heat_with_X58_Blood_Rage.html

 

[dsdsdk]

Blood Rage? what a brutal name.. sounds like a motherboard for the religious fanatics.

 

[kyle2020]

Christ, this board looks epic. Just the name makes me go all fuzzy inside

 

[Octavean]

The mounting holes for the LGA1366 / LGA775 are clearly inconsistently spaced in the first photo (top down view). The lower left set of holes are closer together then the upper right set which is odd. I’m not saying they photoshoped this pix but an inconsistency like this on a production grade board should not be visible to the naked eye like that.

Its such a simple solution to the cooler differential that I’m almost surprised that it wasn’t made part of all X58 motherboard specifications. Then again, the proximity of the mounting holes with respect to each other looks as if it would weaken the mounting area somewhat. A really heavy cooler, one too many turns of the mounting screw, push down a little too hard on the push-pins and,….

I sort of like this board in some respects but I also sort of don’t as well (nothing to do with the mounting holes mind you because I think it’s a good idea overall).

I’m thinking DFI, ASUS, MSI, Gigabyte in no specific order for my X58 board personally. But then again I have been rethinking the i7 / X58 build altogether and considering just buying a new 42", 46" or maybe 50" 1080p LCD HDTV.

 

[Duffman]

looks wicked sick. Love the black and red scheme

 

[InnocentCriminal]

The amount of people that want is board is outstanding, but not a surprise, why? Because Black & Red freaking owns!

 

[ShadowFold]

I'd still get the P6T if I was getting i7(which I no way in hell am).

 

[Octavean]

Well I like the black PCB for what its worth but I really don’t care for the red. Color is trivial though, very, very, very trivial. I’d rather see the PCIe X16 slots spaced further apart for better dual slot VGA cooler support and I would prefer to see seven expansion ports rather then only six.

 

[theJesus]

This board is amazing looking. But it would be nice if they placed the front-panel audio header in a more convenient place instead of right above the pci-e x1 slot.

As for the spacing of the pci-e x16 slots . . . whatever happened to the 10 expansion slot idea? I don't care if people would have to buy new cases. If you can afford x58 right now, you can afford a new case.

 

[spearman914]

Blood Rage? what a brutal name.. sounds like a motherboard for the religious fanatics.

Who cares about names....

 

[Solaris17]

The mounting holes for the LGA1366 / LGA775 are clearly inconsistently spaced in the first photo (top down view). The lower left set of holes are closer together then the upper right set which is odd.

its because 775 is square 1366 is rectangular

 

[eidairaman1]

whats with the 3 slots, seems like we are retrograding slots, i know its Tri Channel in all but i think 4 slots were better than 3.

 

[tnn500af]

Foxconn Bllood Rage

It looks like it came out from FERRARI drawing boards.
Never the less it looks "BLOODY Good".

 

[btarunr]

whats with the 3 slots, seems like we are retrograding slots, i know its Tri Channel in all but i think 4 slots were better than 3.

For an extra GB or two of memory, an extra memory stick that messes with one of the other memory sticks' bandwidth to the IMC, yes. The whole idea behind this, I guess is that overclockers won't be needing > 6GB of memory...evidently according to Foxconn.

 

[eidairaman1]

thx for the analysis.

 

[ascstinger]

wouldnt be surprised if there are 4gb dr3 modules in development down the road that'd push
the max capacity to 12... considering 4gb is about the standard for systems today, 6gb max isnt too bad a number, memory-intensive workstations probably wouldnt select this board anyways