Foxconn Dreadnought 790i Ultra SLI (Retail version)

[SF3D]

Here is the motherboard, that you SLI users have been waiting for :D

It is Foxconn Dreadnought 790 Ultra SLI. This is Foxconns own design and there is few new ideas in the motheroard.

FOXCONN DREADNOUGHT

Unique features for enthusiasts

Dreadnought brings several firsts to market,and heralds major improvements in critical areas of motherboard design, including BIOS, power delivery and cooling – the revered trinity of overclocking.

The new Quantum BIOS is a quantum leap over the previous generation Gladiator BIOS found on the MARS motherboard. The new BIOS menus are intuitive and user friendly, organized ingroups of inter-related settings. Not only are there many more voltage options,but they are arranged into groups relating to the different areas that they affect … CPU, Memory, FSB, etc. Notable additions to the tweaking options are CPU PPL and GTL for quad-core overclocking – expected to be widely-used byoverclockers pushing their Core™2 Extreme and Core™2 Quad processors.

In the cooling stakes, the 4in1 Quantum Cooler is an all-copper NB-SB-VRMheatpipe solution with a difference; thanks to bundled accessories, the NorthBridge (NB) section of the cooler can be quickly adapted for passive or activeair cooling, water cooling or even extreme LN2 or dry ice cooling! According to Peter Tan, Quantum ForceTechnical Consultant, the 4in1 Quantum Cooler “is the most adaptable andeffective cooling solution ever integrated onto a motherboard”.

New power regulation offers better stability and higher output capability

The 8 phase Digital PWM provides more robust power delivery, standing up to the demands of enthusiastsand overclockers. Quantum Force engineers have spent 3 months finely-tuning and optimizing this digital system so that it operates with better power efficiency, has a faster and more stable response tochanges in power consumption, and delivers higher current output capability tosupport extreme overclocking.

“There is no doubt that the 8-phase Digital PWM found on DREADNOUGHT can sustain the massive demands which will be placed onit by enthusiasts and extreme overclockers... it can even do this whilstgenerating less heat switching between different voltage requirements withgreater speed and reliability”.

Unique accessories for enthusiasts

DREADNOUGHT includes a range of accessories designed toprovide additional convenience and performance enhancements for overclockers.In addition to the 4in1 Quantum Cooler accessories (which include a NB fan,extension tower for LN2 cooling and water cooling block), DREADNOUGHT owners will also receive variable resistors for volt-modding,the Quantum Lap motherboard tray forconvenient workbench access to all parts of the motherboard, and the Quantum Flow kit – which improves airflowaround installed VGA cards. The Quantum Flow fan can be installed in ahorizontal or vertical position, and lowers temperatures around multi-VGA rigs by around 5ºC.

Safety and convenience for overclocking

Onboard CMOS reset and power on/offbuttons, a 2-digit LED debug display and the OC Recover feature all combine tospeed up recovery time from unsuccessful overclocking attempts, whilst the new Twin BIOS feature safeguards against BIOS corruption and enables hot-swapping of BIOS chips.

Meanwhile, the BoostSwitch header, conveniently located on the motherboard near the CPU socket, enables hardware selection of CPU clock speed without entering the BIOS.

Pricing & Availability

The DREADNOUGHT motherboard will be available in retail channels soon. For further information about Quantum Forceand the DREADNOUGHT motherboard, go to http://www.quantum-force.net

Product page
http://www.quantum-force.net/Products/P000000003/


http://www.aijaa.com/img/b/00004/2136051.jpg (http://www.aijaa.com/v.php?i=2136051.jpg)

Next I'll put up some pictures :up:

[SF3D]

http://www.aijaa.com/img/b/00379/2136067.jpg (http://www.aijaa.com/v.php?i=2136067.jpg)
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Layout is good and there is one nice feature added on the pcb. There is voltage measure points on the motherboard. That is new idea and nice feature for sure!

[|SiLA|]

yummmy

[SF3D]

Bios is familiar Award Bios. If you have played with BlackOPS, this bios isn't hard to learn after that.

Screenshots (quality is not good, sorry):

http://www.aijaa.com/img/b/00922/2139288.jpg (http://www.aijaa.com/v.php?i=2139288.jpg)
http://www.aijaa.com/img/b/00075/2139293.jpg (http://www.aijaa.com/v.php?i=2139293.jpg)
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http://www.aijaa.com/img/b/00565/2139340.jpg (http://www.aijaa.com/v.php?i=2139340.jpg)

Extras :D

http://www.aijaa.com/img/b/00174/2139353.jpg (http://www.aijaa.com/v.php?i=2139353.jpg)

[LardArse]

damn... you made me realize that my sample is the early ES version without the measurement points :(
Nice pics, love that dark water-cooled look!

[s0lid]

X48 = Black Ops
Nf790i = Dreadnought

Will first Nehalem OCing mobo from foxconn be Nuke :ROTF:
Would be perfect line :p

Anyways good looking mobo :D
SF3D Good pics once again :)

[nCrusader]

X48 = Black Ops
Nf790i = Dreadnought

Will first Nehalem OCing mobo from foxconn be Nuke :ROTF:
Would be perfect line :p

Or some of the PR folks plays EVE-Online.. :P

[blind_ripper]

to bad it will not be avalable for very long time here in belgium same with blackops :(

[Harshal]

Very Nice work with cam again, SF3D. You must be enjoying all da good boards :up:
@ Sham, Bro... Nice work with making it look like striker-killer!! :D

[Solarfall]

LOL is the DREADNOUGHT as picky of the voltage settings as the blackOps board... ??

btw nice pics again petri.. im really looking forward on the benchies :up:

[SF3D]

damn... you made me realize that my sample is the early ES version without the measurement points :(
Nice pics, love that dark water-cooled look!

The measurement points are really cool feature. Remember to thank engineers who made this possible :yepp:


X48 = Black Ops
Nf790i = Dreadnought

Will first Nehalem OCing mobo from foxconn be Nuke :ROTF:
Would be perfect line :p

Anyways good looking mobo :D
SF3D Good pics once again :)

Good name idea :D Or maybe not..



Or some of the PR folks plays EVE-Online.. :P

I was thinking this too ;)


to bad it will not be avalable for very long time here in belgium same with blackops :(

You can order these motherboards from germany or UK? It shouldn't be problem :shrug:


Very Nice work with cam again, SF3D. You must be enjoying all da good boards :up:
@ Sham, Bro... Nice work with making it look like striker-killer!! :D

Thanks! I do enjoy a lot. Who wouldn't :shocked:


LOL is the DREADNOUGHT as picky of the voltage settings as the blackOps board... ??

btw nice pics again petri.. im really looking forward on the benchies :up:

Thanks! Not very picky with voltages, but like we have said earlier, you have to learn and then there is no limits :up:



I updated the bios screens in to 4th post.


I really start to test this Dreadnough soon. I have 2x 9800GTX cards on my table and also 2x 9800GX2. So, SLI and Quad SLI is coming.

See you later :up:

[cptkoulis]

is it possible to post a pic with all the accesories included...?

thnx in advance

[wra1th]

Good MB and nice review:up:
I'd like to ask:
1) How much it costs?
2) Is it have the same problems of unstability as others 790i based MB?
3) When will you make OC tests? :D


Regards

[systemviper]

I want it to go with my blackops X48......

when do you think it will be released?

thanks

[GAR]

Foxconn makes like 10 of these boards, send them out to people for review and makes everyone want one, but never actually releases them. :rolleyes:

[Ming@s]

Board fantastic

[MikeMK]

Blimey this board looks good. I think this may be the one I jump to DDR3 with, if results prove worthwhile. Means I can go back to SLI again aswell! ;)

[M3kk]

Nice board again :D.
Congrats Foxconn and sham!

Wish to put my hands on a piece of this :D.

Waiting for results.

[DMH]

Fantastic motherboard,hope PR get's is hands so he can push his 115K air cooled score higher:D

[Oliver]

Looks really good...

Sweet with reading points...

Keep pushing it...

[SF3D]

is it possible to post a pic with all the accesories included...?

thnx in advance

All the accessories I got, is in the picture above. Accessory should be similar to BlackOPS.


Good MB and nice review:up:
I'd like to ask:
1) How much it costs?
2) Is it have the same problems of unstability as others 790i based MB?
3) When will you make OC tests? :D


Regards

I don't have too much info here, but I can try to answer

1.) Price should be ~300€ (400$) This is my quess.
2.) I haven't seen any problems yet, but I haven't pushed it to the limits.
3.) As soon as I have some time. There should be more hours in a day :D


I want it to go with my blackops X48......

when do you think it will be released?

thanks

Soon. Please, be patient.


Foxconn makes like 10 of these boards, send them out to people for review and makes everyone want one, but never actually releases them. :rolleyes:

:D Not true, but I can see your point. BlackOPS is stock in US and should be in EU aswell.


Board fantastic

I agree :D


Blimey this board looks good. I think this may be the one I jump to DDR3 with, if results prove worthwhile. Means I can go back to SLI again aswell! ;)

That wouldn't be bad decisionat all. I hope you like it.


Nice board again :D.
Congrats Foxconn and sham!

Wish to put my hands on a piece of this :D.

Waiting for results.

Yes. We all should thank Peter for his hard work and Foxconn for moving in to enthusiast area.


Fantastic motherboard,hope PR get's is hands so he can push his 115K air cooled score higher:D

I think he will have one ;)


Looks really good...

Sweet with reading points...

Keep pushing it...

Reading points are nice :up: If you have shaky hands, you don't have to scare so much when measuring :yepp:

[GAR]

Where in the US is it in stock, i am interested in buying one.

[T_M]

Nice pics but they are too large

[disruptfam]

nice

[SF3D]

Where in the US is it in stock, i am interested in buying one.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813186144



Nice pics but they are too large

How? They load slowly or they are too wide for you?

These pics should be good for monitors 17"+

[[XC] gomeler]

That's a good looking board, looking forward to the record breaking it'll dish out. I was brainstorming about a volt measurement panel of pads on motherboards for Gigabyte just the other day, now I won't sound original :shrug: Great job Foxconn, looks like a beauty :up:

[The0men]

Damn that looks awsome.
Love that cooling aswell, first time I've seen a board bundled with
"XTREME cooling" in mind lol.

But excellent to be able to watercool NB without the hassle of changing heatsink
and possibly ruining warrenty, and at the same time
passively water cool SB and mosfets and not need to buy new coolers
for all the componants.

[7499richard]

looks amazing....that link that was posted was for the blackops not this dreadnought...

what is eta in North America? couple weeks, month??...

Looking to upgrade my 680i and I think this is going to be the board

[gcardinal]

m8... it will take at least a year before we have this board in Norway. I am ready to pay 550$ for it if I can get it with in a week...
We don't even have a Blackops in stock... from what I know there is 10 blackops's on its way from China - chances of me getting one = ZERO :brick:

worth feeling ever - you have the money but can't buy :help:

[Justifire]

Any results yet?

[DMH]

There is only one problem with Quantum-Force motherboards: they seem like hand-made because you find decent quantity's of them anywhere

[dpa]

got mine today to.. this board looks like a dream. some testing tomorrow :)

[T_M]

Let us know how your FSB goes dpa!

[MikeMK]

Everytime i see more pics of this board it makes me want it a little bit more! LOL! Its not available in the UK yet though, so I guess I'll have 2 wait ;)

[masterpain]

i am seriously in love :D

[Tyke]

Really looking forward to seeing some numbers on this one, before I consider changing my current board.

[Crazypinoy9]

i really like that they increased the cpu power phase to 8.

[SF3D]

Sorry guys! I have been really busy lately.

I found some time today to test some basic stuff. My bench room was too hot to take CPU any higher :shrug:

3DM01 was really bad ad I will show it when I got it working like it should.

Here is the CPU-Z and mem bandwidth screen:

http://www.aijaa.com/img/b/00322/2154877.jpg (http://www.aijaa.com/v.php?i=2154877.jpg)

AM3 (quite good, considering the CPU clocks)

http://www.aijaa.com/img/b/00664/2154883.jpg (http://www.aijaa.com/v.php?i=2154883.jpg)

03 nothing special here

http://www.aijaa.com/img/b/00593/2154885.jpg (http://www.aijaa.com/v.php?i=2154885.jpg)

05. Damn..30K was so close only with 4.4GHz

http://www.aijaa.com/img/b/00353/2154888.jpg (http://www.aijaa.com/v.php?i=2154888.jpg)

06. Basic score on air water combo

http://www.aijaa.com/img/b/00534/2154892.jpg (http://www.aijaa.com/v.php?i=2154892.jpg)

I have used this motherboard few days now and I have to say, that this is really stable mobo. There haven't been any problems so far (no data corruption at all).

Foxconn did great job in here :up:

Next some quad fsb testing.

[MikeMK]

Well, initial tests look promising indeed. Do keep us all posted. It certinaly hasnt dampened my temptation! LOL ;)

[dpa]

yes, the board seems much more stable than my striker 2 nse.. no corruption yet, working with the fsb now!

[7499richard]

wicked...more please :)

This is gonna be my next board

[nut311]

Bios is familiar Award Bios. If you have played with BlackOPS, this bios isn't hard to learn after that.

Extras :D

http://www.aijaa.com/img/b/00174/2139353.jpg (http://www.aijaa.com/v.php?i=2139353.jpg)

Jack Sparrow...wow, maybe same CPU level Up?

btw...sexy board i'm Dreadnought (X-Men)

[Hazaro]

Board looks really nice, would it be possible to get a close-up of the voltage reading area?

[Lestat]

6 sata ports omfg come on!!!!!
they are including an overclockers freaking dream but to only have 6 sata ports is rediculous.

come on mobo makers get with the program!!!

other than that i have yet to see a FSB that says anything other than cheap.

come on guys what reason do we have for not showing the highest FSB so far

[Me1tDown]

This board looks great, I could definitely see trading my reference 790i for one of these. Now I just wait for ATI and nVidia to release new cards to decide between Blackops and this Dreadnought. Looking forward to see some quad high FSB results.

How's the voltage droop on this board? That and the HDD corruption are my only real complaints with the reference 790i board (along with the number of waterblocks it would take).

[Hazaro]

6 sata ports omfg come on!!!!!
they are including an overclockers freaking dream but to only have 6 sata ports is rediculous.

come on mobo makers get with the program!!!

other than that i have yet to see a FSB that says anything other than cheap.

come on guys what reason do we have for not showing the highest FSB so far

That's what you have RAID cards for :D

[Crazypinoy9]

That's what you have RAID cards for :D

Exactly! Plus nvidia isn't exactly known for very stable southbridges when it comes to raid...:rolleyes:

[Lestat]

That's what you have RAID cards for :D

who has room for a raid card??

[Zytek_Fan]

Holy poo poo.
This or the BlackOps? :D

[Hazaro]

who has room for a raid card??

I'm sure you can find an open slot not taken by an Ultra :D

Crossfire you might have some problems...

[SF3D]

Well, initial tests look promising indeed. Do keep us all posted. It certinaly hasnt dampened my temptation! LOL ;)

Yes. This is promising motherboard.


yes, the board seems much more stable than my striker 2 nse.. no corruption yet, working with the fsb now!

Let us know how it goes :up:


wicked...more please :)

This is gonna be my next board

Coming later :up:


Board looks really nice, would it be possible to get a close-up of the voltage reading area?

Is this good enough: http://www.aijaa.com/v.php?i=2136083.jpg


6 sata ports omfg come on!!!!!
they are including an overclockers freaking dream but to only have 6 sata ports is rediculous.

come on mobo makers get with the program!!!

other than that i have yet to see a FSB that says anything other than cheap.

come on guys what reason do we have for not showing the highest FSB so far

Please, be patient. I can't test everything in first few days. fsb tests are coming. Peter (Shamino) said, that his quad was doing 480fsb.

About S-ATA ports. Isn't 6x 1TB drives enough for you? I can live with six S-ATA ports easily.



How's the voltage droop on this board? That and the HDD corruption are my only real complaints with the reference 790i board (along with the number of waterblocks it would take).

There is some vdroop, but I can't see any problem with that. I haven't seen any HDD corruption so far.

[s0lid]

http://www.aijaa.com/img/b/00174/2139353.jpg (http://www.aijaa.com/v.php?i=2139353.jpg)

"Yarrr, leave the mobo it's the coldbug!" :D

[T_M]

Lestat, how many people do you actually think need 6 SATA ports, let alone more than 6?!?!?
Wake up.

SF3D, are there measuring points for vCPU etc?

[Hazaro]

Is this good enough: http://www.aijaa.com/v.php?i=2136083.jpg


Thank you!




"Yarrr, leave the mobo it's the coldbug!" :D

:rofl:

[SF3D]

SF3D, are there measuring points for vCPU etc?

Measure points are like this:

1. CPU voltage
2. CPU PLL Voltage
3. FSB VTT voltage
4. Dram voltage
5. Southbridge / HTT (I have to check this today)

[mrcape]

Wow those measuring points are a great idea. Sweet board.

[rockqc]

I just read in the BlackOPS thread that the water block cover is actually painted aluminium ? :down:

Can anyone confirm that this is the case with the Dreadnought too ?

[LardArse]

It uses the same cover as The blackops, I'll see if manufacturing can look into the top cover

[rockqc]

Thanks. :)

It won't stop me from buying the board, just that it seems a poor choice considering the quality of these Quantum Force boards if that is the case. :p:

[just a noob]

when is this to come out in the us, this looks like a very high quality board

[Lestat]

Lestat, how many people do you actually think need 6 SATA ports, let alone more than 6?!?!?
Wake up.

SF3D, are there measuring points for vCPU etc?



you'd be pretty darned suprised how many people need 6 or more.

1 for sata burner
6 for hard drives. (raid 5 + a single drive) or multiple RAID 0 or

then you got those that use 2 dvd drives so that leaves 4 ports....

i use 5 ports just in hard drives and would use 8 if it wasn't for my Sata burner. and the lack of 2 more ports.

also there is a retarded trend in mobo makers to put the 2x pci-e port right under the 16x video card port so you cant even use it if you use a double slot card...

[youngpro]

5750mhz 442 * 13 with astra @ -145
441mhz fsb with nb @ 10 degrees
corsair dominator 1800c7, 882mhz rams - 6-6-5-18 1T
forceware driver 173.67
lsi sas card + 4 wd raptors raid0 16k stripe
2* gigabyte 8800gts @ 1080 core, 2700~ shader, 1137 rams

http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa50/preeeezy/118k.jpg

board seems very nice, im having a bit of issues with no clockgen, but can boot in at reasonable clocks

[7499richard]

nice results!

[T_M]

Lestat, you are hardly a typical user. 5 SATA disks is normal? RAID is normal? Yeah right

[M3kk]

Lestat, you are hardly a typical user. 5 SATA disks is normal? RAID is normal? Yeah right

For 24/7 its normal 5 or even more HDDs :).

Very nice result youngpro :).

[Buckeye]

The only problem I see with this board for my use is if I want to run TRI-SLI I cannot run my SSD Raid with the ARC-1231 :(

[dpa]

great score there pro!! have to wait for some new parts to mobo myself :(..

slap in some GTXs..? :D

[tiborrr]

What was the maximum FSB achieved with Wolfdale dual-cores so far?

[tekjunkie]

We will have to wait and see how the retail boards fare, made the mistake of buying the S2E as it had early raving reviews with probably hand picked boards and eventhough am not regretting the purchase yet, I feel like I jumped the gun with the S2E being a hit or miss. Must resist the temptation of getting one as soon as it is released.

[LockBreaker]

How is this board compared to the Black Ops? :)

[Trigger5521]

you'd be pretty darned suprised how many people need 6 or more.

1 for sata burner
6 for hard drives. (raid 5 + a single drive) or multiple RAID 0 or

then you got those that use 2 dvd drives so that leaves 4 ports....

i use 5 ports just in hard drives and would use 8 if it wasn't for my Sata burner. and the lack of 2 more ports.

also there is a retarded trend in mobo makers to put the 2x pci-e port right under the 16x video card port so you cant even use it if you use a double slot card...


+ 1 for using all 6 sata ports(I could use 8). Had to get a stupid IDE DVD drive because the board is limited to 6 ports.

My first build of my current system I used RAID 5 for OS + RAID 0 for games drive. Vista is such a harddisk pig RAID 5 was useless, I had to get an additional disk and move to raid 10 just to make Vista tolerable.

[LockBreaker]

How is this board compared to the Black Ops? :)

Bumping this thing. :rolleyes:

Gotta know. Love Foxconn you see. :woot:

[tiborrr]

What was the maximum FSB achieved with Wolfdale dual-cores so far?

I hate to quote myself but... Anyone?

[SF3D]

Please guys, be patient!

I have too much to do at the moment and other board holders are busy too.

Updates will come, I promise.

[MikeMK]

Does anyone have any idea when this board might hit retail in the UK? Im in the market for a decent SLI board, and seeing all the hassles people have had with the S2E, im probably gonna give this foxconn a go!

[7499richard]

When is this board coming out!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

[Gunslinger]

bump

[dengyong]

Are we there yet ?

[Eugenemal]

i am Still waiting... :)

[TheKarmakazi]

When is this board coming out!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?


bump


Are we there yet ?


i am Still waiting... :)

+1 :D

[tekjunkie]

Would this board ever see the light of the day. Is foxconn trying to hold back to fine tune the BIOS.I am waiting for this or a 790i Ultra board from DFI, if there is one

[axlros75]

Sorry guys,
anyone knows when Foxconn Dreadnoughts (790i) will be on stock?

Thanks

[YMAA]

If I had to guess...probably within a few weeks after the release of the GTX260, or after the price of the GTX280s drop a little. Foxconn is probably waiting to see how people react to the GTX series once things mature and prices stabilize before the board gets unleashed.

[masxerofkartis]

Anyone knows when and how much this board is gonna come out??? ive been waiting for it since cebit

[Baron_Greenback]

Hi Guys, few pics of my board i've had on test... Will have LN2 tomorrow to see what she can really do.

http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/cc77/barron_greenback/DSCF0188.jpg

http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/cc77/barron_greenback/DSCF0187.jpg

http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/cc77/barron_greenback/DSCF0176.jpg

http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/cc77/barron_greenback/DSCF0179.jpg

[Xello]

Is that aluminum WB top i see, a la blackops?

[Baron_Greenback]

Yes mate, alloy top with countersunk o-ring rubber seals around the barbs, very good quality really.

[Eugenemal]

Thank you, Baron_Greenback! Waiting for your overclocking feedback about this mobo.

[imapwnu]

this is a very kickass board,

i wonder how good the extreme cooling attachment really is

[Oliver]

Its a benching board...

one or two sata ports is enough...

[ceevee]

Is this board going to be released with a BIOS that is ready for prime time?

I have come to like my BlackOps quite a bit, but I bought it when it first came out and frankly the BIOS did not really work in many ways.

This has now been fixed with the new beta BlackOps BIOS.

But hopefully Foxconn will learn from their mistakes with Blackops and not release Dreadnought until everything is fully functional and stable.

Also hopefully this 790i board will not have the corruption issues of the other 790i boards.

[ACE76]

Board looks awesome just as the Blackops board did...but support seemed like it as never there for the Blackops...it was hyped like hell and performed too, but without the support, it isn't worth it...I hope things are different with this one...I was gonna go 790i but the corruption issues steered me away from the Striker II Extreme...I'm hoping th 4870 performs as good as the GTX 280...then we won't need an Nvidia chipset for multi-gpu setups.

[SF3D]

I'm back!

Now is the time to start bench this motherboard seriously. There is new bios available (not public) and it is making my life a lot easier.
SLI is working like it should now and other bugs are history too.

Here is some Quad SLI scores, which I did just a moment ago.

QX9650 (On water 4250-4300MHz)
9800GX2 Quad SLI (On air, no mods)
Foxconn Dreadnought 790i Ultra
G.Skill DDR3 HZ 2GB
Thermaltake 1200W
Drivers: 177.39 (Nvidia PhysX)

X9268
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dmv=189355

H16515
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dmv=189319

P24965
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dmv=189455

E64015
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dmv=189430

I will get 3x Foxconn GTX 280 cards on wednesday or thursday. First LN2 results will follow in friday-sunday axle.

[youngpro]

great results sf3d, gx2 seem relatively strong in vantage but they really get hurt with the physx stuff!

i did some quick testing last night, trying to find max stable cpu clocks, i think im sitting around 5590~mhz for entry and performance

[rockqc]

Nice results so far SF3D. :)

The new bios fixes the video freezing and data corruption also ?

/rant
Almost a month now since it's official release, yet none are available for sale and no one seems to know when it will come out. :down:

Kind of makes a review on the "retail version" pointless if no one can buy the board. :ROTF:
/rant

[SF3D]

great results sf3d, gx2 seem relatively strong in vantage but they really get hurt with the physx stuff!

i did some quick testing last night, trying to find max stable cpu clocks, i think im sitting around 5590~mhz for entry and performance

I hope to get my CPU to 5.6GHz too.

Do you have 3x 280GTX? If so, let's rock with this motherboard :up:

[SF3D]

New toys arrived today.

http://img503.imageshack.us/img503/5242/gtx280x3lb9.th.jpg (http://img503.imageshack.us/my.php?image=gtx280x3lb9.jpg)

These cards are really powerful, but it's a pity, that SLI is not working efficiently on 3-way SLI systems. Only Vantage and 3DM03 is showing, what these cards can really do. Vantage H and X frame rates are impressivley high comparing to 9800GX2.

Here is my first tests. I'm just starting to get used to these cards :up:

(Sorry, I used 177.39 drivers and PhysX support)

X15349
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dmv=193971

H21502
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dmv=193975

P29323
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dmv=193976

E68302
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dmv=193978

[just a noob]

holy crap, i wanna see those with a qx9770 and raid 0 on a pair of ssd's, but man, did those arrive complimentery, or are did you pawn off some stuff/have extra cash lying around?

[Buckeye]

Well you just might see this with my QX9770 and Raid, saddly only SLI as I cannot run TRI-SLI on my rig because I need the slot for the ARC-1231ML controller card.

I am just awaiting the release of this board.

[LardArse]

New toys arrived today.

http://img503.imageshack.us/img503/5242/gtx280x3lb9.th.jpg (http://img503.imageshack.us/my.php?image=gtx280x3lb9.jpg)

These cards are really powerful, but it's a pity, that SLI is not working efficiently on 3-way SLI systems. Only Vantage and 3DM03 is showing, what these cards can really do. Vantage H and X frame rates are impressivley high comparing to 9800GX2.

Here is my first tests. I'm just starting to get used to these cards :up:

(Sorry, I used 177.39 drivers and PhysX support)

X15349
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dmv=193971

H21502
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dmv=193975

P29323
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dmv=193976

E68302
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dmv=193978



Nice start Petri!
You have the Vantage Killa rig there....

[Justifire]

Think we need some tri-sli optimization in the drivers ;)

[youngpro]

yeah mate got 3x 280gtx, did some real prelim testing tonight,

this cpu speed is just relaxed, P1/P2 enabled, gpus @ stock clocks/coolers

keep in mind of course overclock on gpu will have big impact on cpu score with physx

http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa50/preeeezy/e73036.jpg

http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa50/preeeezy/p29274.jpg

[LardArse]

Jisch lewish... that one the fm approved/non approved drivers pro?
nice warmup run there, a slight bug on the recent bios for vdroop, its not workin :D so you shd get mroe cpu speed soon with updated bios, or do hw mod as in email

[youngpro]

thanks mate,

im using the non-approved drivers, at the moment i dont care about orb hof, until they get themselves sorted out and decide which drivers we can use, im going to use whichever driver gives me the most points =]

awesome looking forward to that vdroop working... ill use peters suggestion and try running 1:2 in sync tonight and tightening up my ram timings a bit... think i can keep pushing my pci-e aswell im at 115 so far, will shoot for 125~ tonight.. back to air on cpu now and try to work on my vantage optimization for the next few days

[fr4nc3sco]

between what is placed in the retail market?

[ceevee]

Has anyone had the 790i freezing issues on this board? If it is completely freeze-free I may switch to it from S2E.

[Logos]

Has anyone had the 790i freezing issues on this board? If it is completely freeze-free I may switch to it from S2E.

from the tests here @XS, sounds like the issues experienced with SIIE didn't affect the Dreadnought...but OK, the card is not available yet (at least not in Europe) and we don't have comments from many users.

[stoneyman]

What's the eta on this mobo hitting the market? My 2 gtx 280's are crying out to it. :)

[MikeMK]

Still all very quiet regarding this board... no more news?

[Gunslinger]

Do they still plan on going public/retail with this board? The Retail version review was started back in May, and here we are coming up on August...

[masxerofkartis]

hey guys i guess it must be the second time i'm asking in 2 months has the thing come out yet or are you with es

Sorry if answer has already been posted i'm kinda hasty right now

[MikeMK]

Yeah, i would really like to know about the availability of this board as a potential replacement for my striker. Also, has any one heard anything of the DFI 790i that they showed at cebit (i think) earlier in the year?

[Gunslinger]

Guess this sheds a little light on the subject of non-availability:
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/NVIDIA-790i-SLI,1977-6.html

[FatboyHK]

seem this board is no more, the product page in foxconn's site has been removed......

[7499richard]

lame

[Expat GriZ]

Well, isn't that a kick in the buttocks with a frozen mukluk!! Just emailed some big title at Foxconn and VENTED!! Not impressed...have had this preordered from Germany for 2 months and my German sucks.:shakes:

[littleitaly]

Someone knows why the Dreadnaught was removed from the site Foxcon ...

[maxine]

Sorry guys...rumors talk the NVIDIA is going to left the chipset business. Gigabyte, Foxconn and other brands remove the production of nvidia chipsets due serious problems with Intel Processors...:clap:

[SF3D]

Please moderators, close this thread. Thank you!

Foxconn Dreadnought is canceled. Now I have one really rare motherboard in my closet.