Foxconn Dreadnought Motherboard Available This Month

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Motherboard maker Foxconn broke all records by launching yet another high-end motherboard this week, the Dreadnought. First previewed at CeBIT 2008, the 3rd Intel platform motherboard in the Quantum Force series is based on the enthusiast-class nForce 790i Ultra SLI MCP and supports the latest Intel Core 2 Extreme and Core 2 Duo/Quad processors up to FSB 1600MHz. "The Quantum Force range of motherboards is now expanding as we bring a wider range of solutions to the market for enthusiasts. Dreadnought allows enthusiasts to couple powerful Intel processors with NVIDIA SLI-enabled graphics cards" commented Greta Kuo, Quantum Force Product Manager. Dreadnought certainly packs significant firepower, with support for the very latest DDR3-2000 memory, 8 phase Digital PWM and 3x PCI-E 2.0 x16 slots that support NVIDIA's 3-way SLI technology. With the Dreadnought board, Foxconn is also introducing their brand new 4-in-1 motherboard cooling. The 4-in-1 Quantum Cooler is an all-copper NB-SB-VRM heatpipe solution that can be quickly adapted for passive or active air cooling, water cooling or even extreme LN2 or dry ice cooling. The Dreadnought motherboard will be available in retail channels this month, priced at around US $399. For further information about Quantum Force and the Dreadnought motherboard, click here.



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[Cybrnook2002]

Foxconn has lost there minds $400!

 

[Temps_Riising]

Lmao @ $400 for a board containing a chipset where 50% have data corruption STILL if overclocked.

Fortunatly, I am one of the lucky half that have not had any data corruption

 

[AnnCore]

"Dreadnought"? Isn't that like old English for "don't dread me?" Sounds reassuring....

 

[Drash]

"Dreadnought"? Isn't that like old English for "don't dread me?" Sounds reassuring....

More like "afraid of nothing" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Dreadnought_(1906)

 

[trt740]

I wonder will it corrupt the hell out of your hardrives. Like the other 790I boards.

 

[DaMulta]

I have faith that it will be fixed


from what I have read the reference designs have been fixed and the asus board is getting closer....


All I know is that it is wicked fast......I might sell my ASUS for low ball for this board tho....hmmm and hmmm

 

[xvi]

I am seriously not impressed.

The 4-in-1 Quantum Cooler is an all-copper NB-SB-VRM heatpipe solution

Northbridge, Southbridge, VRM. I only count three. What's the 4 in 1?

They're advertising "high quality" capacitors (nothing new), heatpipe cooling (nothing new), 8 phase PWM (nothing new), HD audio (nothing new)...

What's so great about this board?
I see dual NICs, eSATA, firewire.. a cmos battery located in a very odd spot.
..but what's so groundbreaking about this board?

I'm still sticking with DFI.

 

[Rebo&Zooty]

I am seriously not impressed.



Northbridge, Southbridge, VRM. I only count three. What's the 4 in 1?

They're advertising "high quality" capacitors (nothing new), heatpipe cooling (nothing new), 8 phase PWM (nothing new), HD audio (nothing new)...

What's so great about this board?
I see dual NICs, eSATA, firewire.. a cmos battery located in a very odd spot.
..but what's so groundbreaking about this board?

I'm still sticking with DFI.

its pretty!!!!!

oh yeah and it costs 400bucks

 

[steelkane]

What a joke,, they still need to fix there 680I boards, that have no support for 1333 fsb core 2 duo cpu's. I really don't think I will buy another foxconn board, instead of fixing the 680I board they just discontinued it.

 

[cdawall]

I am seriously not impressed.



Northbridge, Southbridge, VRM. I only count three. What's the 4 in 1?

They're advertising "high quality" capacitors (nothing new), heatpipe cooling (nothing new), 8 phase PWM (nothing new), HD audio (nothing new)...

What's so great about this board?
I see dual NICs, eSATA, firewire.. a cmos battery located in a very odd spot.
..but what's so groundbreaking about this board?

I'm still sticking with DFI.

the chipset cooler is able to do water/phase/air/LN2 hence 4 in 1

 

[xvi]

the chipset cooler is able to do water/phase/air/LN2 hence 4 in 1

They're actually going to support water cooling and LN2? Won't they get support calls of "Your northbridge cooler cracked and you shorted out my motherboard/video card."?

 

[Thermopylae_480]

"Dreadnought"? Isn't that like old English for "don't dread me?" Sounds reassuring....

No.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/dreadnaught

 

[PaulieG]

What a joke,, they still need to fix there 680I boards, that have no support for 1333 fsb core 2 duo cpu's. I really don't think I will buy another foxconn board, instead of fixing the 680I board they just discontinued it.

Yeah, it's never a good sign when makers are willing to discontinue fast rather than support.

 

[Rebo&Zooty]

definition

dreadnought Definition

dread·nought (-nôt′)

noun
a coat made of a thick woolen cloth
the cloth
Etymology: after Dreadnought, the first of such a class of British battleships, built in 1906 any large,
heavily armored battleship with many powerful guns

now they dont go back to where the name orignaly came from, so the orignal root could be another way of saying fearless.

http://www.yourdictionary.com/dreadnought

Paulieg, its common, asus,gigabyte hell all the top makers have abandoned products from time to time, saddly i have had better support from the likes of biostar,foxconn,ecs/pcchips and other less known companys(chaintech b4 those walton fucks bought them) then from the top names.

its a sign in many cases that they screwed up, or in some that a board didnt sell well, so they just dumped it.

if your having alot of problems with the 680i board for example, raise hell with foxconn support, they may just offer you an rma and upgrade you to something diffrent, i have had board makers do that for me more then once just to keep me from giving them hell and bad word of mouth.

word of mouth can sink a company or make it fly, more then one companys been taken down because they got alot of bad word of mouth.

 

[Wile E]

I'm really starting to like the direction Foxconn is headed. Sponsoring an OC team seems to be bringing their products up a notch. I kinda want this board, only because of the DICE/LN2 option. lol.

 

[tkpenalty]

Enough of the bitching guys. Foxconn generally makes low end boards, this is one of their high end ones. You saw how the MARS board shined in overclocking, this board will too-this board is a competitor of the high end ASUS ROG boards.

I am seriously not impressed.

Northbridge, Southbridge, VRM. I only count three. What's the 4 in 1?

They're advertising "high quality" capacitors (nothing new), heatpipe cooling (nothing new), 8 phase PWM (nothing new), HD audio (nothing new)...

What's so great about this board?
I see dual NICs, eSATA, firewire.. a cmos battery located in a very odd spot.
..but what's so groundbreaking about this board?

I'm still sticking with DFI.

Please define quality. DFI Fail in terms of quality in some aspects FYI. One of my biggest criticisms is how quickly products are EOL'ed over at DFI. Your claim of the weird CMOS battery placement is laughable. My DFI 975X/G had the battery there, MOREOVER the 24 pin on the wrong side of the board .

Whats so groundbreaking...? The fact that foxconn used to make OEM/low end boards is. Just like DFI who started off as an OEM manufacturer.


One thing I like about foxconn... the fact that their layouts don't piss people off. Gigabyte/ASUS sometimes make the weirdest board design choices....

 

[steelkane]

I had high hope for foxconn when I first bought the 680I board,, It was packaged really nice, came with a kick-ass full size poster of the board lay-out, and the lay-out of the board was nice, except for the 4 pin molex above the pcie slot. so after bench testing it with a e6850 & trying to tune it before it went into the case, it just wouldn't run right, so calling foxconn only to find out that the board will boot a e6850 but run with errors, & there working on a bios update to support the e6850, so I waited & called them back from time to time, only to here the same thing, & was even told, by you calling, isn't going to make us come out with a bios update any sooner. OK Nice company,Then was told you should have checked our cpu support list before u bought it, I was like sure I could have done that, but why is it that ever other maker I checked supports the e6850 cpu for the 680I board. even the nvidia reference board. they replied well were not them. The board ended up frying & I rma it & traded it for a striker extreme, the board now runs good in a friends pc with an e6700, so I ask, after all that would you buy another foxconn board or like Rebo&Zooty said, maybe they just had a bad run with that board. I'm just not sure I want to go through all that again with a $400 board.

 

[Temps_Riising]

"Dreadnought"? Isn't that like old English for "don't dread me?" Sounds reassuring....

British WW2 Battleship class

 

[Temps_Riising]

Thing is, at this price, it would need to overclock significantly higher than the NVidia 790i reference boards......will it? I am not so sure.

 

[cdawall]

They're actually going to support water cooling and LN2? Won't they get support calls of "Your northbridge cooler cracked and you shorted out my motherboard/video card."?

yes yes they will

 

[Widjaja]

I will never go back to Foxconn.
Reasons:-
1:-Thier support forum is really crap and most of the time you get a 400 error popping up.
Can't help most people because of the way the forum was written out, cuts off the majority of the title of the OP's issues.
2:-BIOS flash instructions in the zip file were wrong.
3:-The FLASH.bat was not for the .bin file in the zip.
4:-The instructions on how to flash the BIOS manually was written in a font where you couldn't define where the spaces were.
5:-The motherboard had the most unstable vregs I have ever come across which made overclocking near impossible without having a high vcore.
6:-Lack of BIOS options made windows take forever to load, even after windows had started.

Besides my brief experience with Foxconn
The PCI slots of the drednought remind me of the French flag.

 

[thoughtdisorder]

I"ve never had much luck with ANYTHING from Foxconn. Not impressed.

 

[Lu(ky]

BUYERS BEWARE

I just bought the BlackOps version and they say the North Bridge is 100% copper it is NOT TRUE. The top of the North Bridge is Aluminum = your chances to contaminating water cooling loop when mixes with different metals. Also the barbs are like a cheap hard plastic as well. So far I like this board but I do think my Asus Striker II Extreme was much more better layout and more solid this board BlackOps. But so far seems to OC allot better then the S2E without corruptions.

 

[newconroer]

Uh I think "Dreadnaught" would have been a better name. It refers to mythical monsters of ..well no point in nerding this out but ya...