Foxconn Renaissance X58 Digital Life -Retail- (Core i7, Nehalem)

[SF3D]

Foxconn will soon let this motherboard flow out of their factories to you my dear buddies :D

This motherboard is targeted to the mainstream market and it will not have all the features, that upcoming Quantum Force series X58 motherboard will have.

This motherboard will not be so expensive, so you might want to check this out.

Specs (some):
* X58 tylersburg chipset
* ICH10-R southbridge
* 6 phase power circuit for CPU
* 2x 16X PCI-E and 2x 8X PCI-E slots
* 6 memory slots for 3-channel memory configurations
* Maximum memory amount xx?
* All basic connectors you need in today computing
* Selectable QPI 4800GT/s, 6400GT/s (Gigatransfers/s)
* All adjustments for basic overclocking

Here is the pictures:


http://www.aijaa.com/img/b/00443/2856441.jpg (http://www.aijaa.com/v.php?i=2856441.jpg)
http://www.aijaa.com/img/b/00258/2856442.jpg (http://www.aijaa.com/v.php?i=2856442.jpg)
http://www.aijaa.com/img/b/00451/2838890.jpg (http://www.aijaa.com/v.php?i=2838890.jpg)
http://www.aijaa.com/img/b/00885/2838892.jpg (http://www.aijaa.com/v.php?i=2838892.jpg)
http://www.aijaa.com/img/b/00197/2838897.jpg (http://www.aijaa.com/v.php?i=2838897.jpg)
http://www.aijaa.com/img/b/00140/2838899.jpg (http://www.aijaa.com/v.php?i=2838899.jpg)
http://www.aijaa.com/img/b/00756/2838901.jpg (http://www.aijaa.com/v.php?i=2838901.jpg)
http://www.aijaa.com/img/b/00217/2838904.jpg (http://www.aijaa.com/v.php?i=2838904.jpg)
http://www.aijaa.com/img/b/00640/2838909.jpg (http://www.aijaa.com/v.php?i=2838909.jpg)
http://www.aijaa.com/img/b/00036/2838912.jpg (http://www.aijaa.com/v.php?i=2838912.jpg)
http://www.aijaa.com/img/b/00414/2838919.jpg (http://www.aijaa.com/v.php?i=2838919.jpg)
http://www.aijaa.com/img/b/00045/2838922.jpg (http://www.aijaa.com/v.php?i=2838922.jpg)
http://www.aijaa.com/img/b/00211/2838926.jpg (http://www.aijaa.com/v.php?i=2838926.jpg)
http://www.aijaa.com/img/b/00401/2838936.jpg (http://www.aijaa.com/v.php?i=2838936.jpg)
http://www.aijaa.com/img/b/00705/2838948.jpg (http://www.aijaa.com/v.php?i=2838948.jpg)
http://www.aijaa.com/img/b/00213/2838959.jpg (http://www.aijaa.com/v.php?i=2838959.jpg)
http://www.aijaa.com/img/b/00524/2838967.jpg (http://www.aijaa.com/v.php?i=2838967.jpg)
http://www.aijaa.com/img/b/00388/2838972.jpg (http://www.aijaa.com/v.php?i=2838972.jpg)


I don't have the exact time for release and I don't know the exact price, so be patient.

Memory in the pictures are upcoming A-DATA 1GB D9GTR sticks. These should do easily 2000MHz 7-7-7-18. I'll do another test report about the memory later.

Test results will come 13th of November when NDA will be lifted

[SF3D]

Reserved for the bios screens:

[DeDaL]

Thanks for shearing pics Petri.
The board is looking very nice.

How much vDDR you give to do 2000 (7-7-7-18) ?

[Slovnaft]

OK so first question.

WTF is that THING on the NB?!
...it looks like a .... speaker??

[LardArse]

OK so first question.

WTF is that THING on the NB?!
...it looks like a .... speaker??

heheh so that you will be like this when u use it:

http://b.imagehost.org/0031/445.jpg

Saaya will understand that joke :D
Nice pics SF3D!

[Harshal]

Sexy thing!!! Neat HS design too :D
Me wanty!!! :p:

[BulldogPO]

Very funny looking chipset coolers, SB is like a volume knob and X58 is like a small speaker, hehe.

[Slovnaft]

Very funny looking chipset coolers, SB is like a volume knob and X58 is like a small speaker, hehe.

so this board...doubles as...a....boombox?:ROTF:

guys, it's clearly more than meets the eye.
I would even say it's a ROBOT IN DISGUISE

[Sagart]

Really nice looking board. :)

[Solarfall]

great looking board im looking forward on seeing some benchies/ bios screens..
lol that NB chipset cooler looks kinda wacky..

[dinos22]

sweeeeet looking "boombox" lol

[nefariouscaine]

speaker???

that was my first thought as well - which socket revision is this slated to be?? and have they finished the debate on if x58 will be CF only or include SLI ??

possible I'm behind the times....

great looking board - thanks for the preview

[moloko]

Nice photos mate. You'll have to teach me to use this camera I've got now. I think it's basically the same as your's wasn't it?

Looking forward to your first results :up:


sweeeeet looking "boombox" lol

Hahah yeah I reckon. It looks wild and nothing like a heatsink. Fingers crossed it doesn't screw with cooling :rolleyes:


speaker???

that was my first thought as well - which socket revision is this slated to be?? and have they finished the debate on if x58 will be CF only or include SLI ??

possible I'm behind the times....

great looking board - thanks for the preview

The next issue of The Overclocker (yeah, I know guys! trust us; very freakin close!) has a sneak peak at an MSI X58 but it is more of a general look and we've included some information regarding multi-GPU solutions.

As for which boards will be CF, which will be SLI and which ones will be both (if that's possible!?), will be dependent on licensing agreements and what features the manufacturers choose to enable i believe. For example, for a board to support SLI, even without the nForce200 chips, it will have to go through NVIDIA's SLI qualification process and this obviously costs money so could still continue to see the lower end of the multi-GPU market dominated by CF setups.

[Xello]

I heard the speaker is for the board to talk to you, ie tell you off for putting too much vmch etc :shrug:

[Oliver]

Sweet thanks for posting

[inCore]

Somebody finally realized that combining purple with green with blue with neon orange is not the way forwards.

Yes yes, I know some people have done a good job with designs.

[Pt1t]

Thanks for shearing pics Petri.
The board is looking very nice.

How much vDDR you give to do 2000 (7-7-7-18) ?

I tested those ram yesterday , and i get 2000mhz 7-6-5-15 32M stable for 2.1v on 4 sticks.

[DFI pit bull]

I love the board, but the cooling makes the whole thing look like a cheap hi-fi.

[Catz]

ok not so expensive...

What kind of price range are we talking about?

[SF3D]

It's nice that you all like the board. I'm not 100% sure, that is this the final NB cooler. Saaya is working on it.

When I know the release date and price, I let you all know as soon as possible.


I tested those ram yesterday , and i get 2000mhz 7-6-5-15 32M stable for 2.1v on 4 sticks.

Really? These are really good sticks then. I haven't tested max speeds yet, cause I'm just getting used to this motherboard.


I really would like to show some performance to you guys. All I can say, that it is something crazy and I love it :up:


Here is what CPU-Z tell about the board:
86256

[cadaveca]

I hope it's not final; looks like a small speaker, which has no business inside a PC!!! :)

[Achill3uS]

congrats m8 for this nice mobo :) we will have a nice xmas, everybody will bench nehalem at the end of this year...
layout seems perfect, except the NB cooler, i don't like it, saaya be creative but not that much :D
BUT... if they focus on "digital life / digital home" support and looking, i can smell some quantum force x58 in the future, am i wrong? :p:

[SF3D]

Yep Achilleus! BloodRage is just around the corner :)

[M3kk]

Its very nice, i like it :D.

[Catz]

Yep Achilleus! BloodRage is just around the corner :)

Sweet by reading all these topics where you guys post it's easy to find out stuff about the upcoming bloodrage :D

Now i know it's not another amd board but X58 :up:

[Monstru]

Nice board, can't wait to see it perform.

[SaiNRuB]

Yep Achilleus! BloodRage is just around the corner :)

I like the sound of that, cant wait to see the quantum force x58.

[pajaa]

[...]

This motherboard is targeted to the mainstream market and it will not have all the features, that upcoming Quantum Force series X58 motherboard will have.
[...]

Mainstream with SAS?
The Quantum Force board will use the same deep black pcb?

[MomijiTMO]

I can't exactly explain this but the aesthetics of the mobo are fantastic. The digital life series are aimed at the more upper mainstream end [similar pricing to the deluxe range in ASUS] but have always looked bland and come with a stupidly high price. Hopefully this board will be at a reasonable price and oc fairly well. Some Quantum Force features would be great.

[BreeSpree]

Some dudes told me the x58 was going to support Sli. It sounded like bullcrap, and I guess now that you are testing one is the time to ask. The problem with me just dismissing this notion is that I was told by multiple people. And that is a lot of RAM slots.:eek:

Doesn't even look much like a mainboard, but like something you took out of a stereo or something. In a good way, it looks very streamlined.:up:

[Slovnaft]

Yep Achilleus! BloodRage is just around the corner :)

ooo "BloodRage", catchy!

reminds me of a certain classic DFI board...

[saaya]

OK so first question.
WTF is that THING on the NB?!
...it looks like a .... speaker??
... it wasnt my idear and i recommended them to change it as soon as i saw it.


heheh so that you will be like this when u use it:

http://b.imagehost.org/0031/445.jpg

Saaya will understand that joke :D
Nice pics SF3D!
i still havent figured out who that guy is supposed to be, who made that drawing anyways, zenno? :P :D


so this board...doubles as...a....boombox?:ROTF:

guys, it's clearly more than meets the eye.
I would even say it's a ROBOT IN DISGUISE
its actually the first board of our new transformer series!
it can transform from a mainboard into a boombox with 5 simple steps :lol:


speaker???

that was my first thought as well - which socket revision is this slated to be?? and have they finished the debate on if x58 will be CF only or include SLI ??

possible I'm behind the times....
great looking board - thanks for the preview
what do you mean with socket revision?
x58 will be xfire only, but you can send some boards to nvidia to certify that sli works on them, then you gotta pay a one-time fee and then a fee for every board sold afaik.



As for which boards will be CF, which will be SLI and which ones will be both (if that's possible!?), will be dependent on licensing agreements and what features the manufacturers choose to enable i believe. For example, for a board to support SLI, even without the nForce200 chips, it will have to go through NVIDIA's SLI qualification process and this obviously costs money so could still continue to see the lower end of the multi-GPU market dominated by CF setups.both is possible, if you certify for SLI you can still use xfire. and xfire works fine even when you use nf200 chips, so in any case, if it supports sli, it support xfire as well. the only exception beeing nvidias own chipsets :D


I heard the speaker is for the board to talk to you, ie tell you off for putting too much vmch etc :shrug:yes, itll beg for mercy if you turn up the volts too high :lol:


I tested those ram yesterday , and i get 2000mhz 7-6-5-15 32M stable for 2.1v on 4 sticks.what board? pretty impressive for 4 sticks! how about 2 sticks?


I love the board, but the cooling makes the whole thing look like a cheap hi-fi.: / i forwarded your feedback, thats all i can do unfortunately...



layout seems perfect, except the NB cooler, i don't like it, saaya be creative but not that much :D
BUT... if they focus on "digital life / digital home" support and looking, i can smell some quantum force x58 in the future, am i wrong? :p:
hey, i didnt design that heatsink! :P


I can't exactly explain this but the aesthetics of the mobo are fantastic. The digital life series are aimed at the more upper mainstream end [similar pricing to the deluxe range in ASUS] but have always looked bland and come with a stupidly high price. Hopefully this board will be at a reasonable price and oc fairly well. Some Quantum Force features would be great.
thanks for the feedback, i forwarded it to the digital life team :toast:


Mainstream with SAS?
The Quantum Force board will use the same deep black pcb?
why not? and yes, BloodRage will be black pcb too :D

[massman]

BloodRage will be black pcb too :D

Black Blood? ... doesn't sound that healthy to me.

Petri, can you give any first impressions? Is it easy to work with in terms of overclocking? Will we need to use a different approach to reach the limits of the chips? Another approach to find the best working settings? Any info on your first LN2 results?

[saaya]

Black Blood? ... doesn't sound that healthy to me.put on your glasses? :D


Petri, can you give any first impressions? Is it easy to work with in terms of overclocking? Will we need to use a different approach to reach the limits of the chips? Another approach to find the best working settings? Any info on your first LN2 results?
Nehalem works with a base clock which gets multiplied to create cpu clock, qpi clock and imc clock. other than amd which used 200Mhz as base, Intel is using 133Mhz as base. the base clock works pretty much like the fsb, as in cpu clocks is multiplier x Bclock. Just like with amds hyper transport the bus speed is created using the base clock and a bus multiplier.
So when you overclock the base clock to get a higher fsb and better throughput for the cpu, the qpi speed will come up as well.
so to max out the Bclock you need to lower the qpi multiplier, just like with amd... even when changing the qpi multiplier the max Bclock is around 220, so with the 920 you guys will be limited to 20x220=4400Mhz. Which is fine tho, to max out a chip on air the base clock limit is just fine, but when you go for ln2 or phase change the 220 will be limiting.

[MomijiTMO]

Thanks for the nehalem oc input saaya :)

[massman]

Nehalem works with a base clock which gets multiplied to create cpu clock, qpi clock and imc clock. other than amd which used 200Mhz as base, Intel is using 133Mhz as base. the base clock works pretty much like the fsb, as in cpu clocks is multiplier x Bclock. Just like with amds hyper transport the bus speed is created using the base clock and a bus multiplier.
So when you overclock the base clock to get a higher fsb and better throughput for the cpu, the qpi speed will come up as well.
so to max out the Bclock you need to lower the qpi multiplier, just like with amd... even when changing the qpi multiplier the max Bclock is around 220, so with the 920 you guys will be limited to 20x220=4400Mhz. Which is fine tho, to max out a chip on air the base clock limit is just fine, but when you go for ln2 or phase change the 220 will be limiting.

Okay, the basics are still similar to the things we already know: Increase Bclock to increase CPUfreq, QPIfreq and NBfreq. If I understand correctly, the Bclock will be limited to around 220MHz due to technology limitations, much like we see with the Phenom processors, which mostly hit the limit at 250Mhz, no matter what voltages are increased.

How about the QPI/NB freqs? What would be the limits on air? Will there be multipliers available to finetune these? Any special ratios we need to keep in mind (~AMD's NB/HT ratio)?

[massman]

For those that are interested in the bios options on other X58 boards, Coolaler posted detailed pics on OCX: http://www.ocxtreme.org/forumenus/showthread.php?p=56634#post56634

[saaya]

Okay, the basics are still similar to the things we already know: Increase Bclock to increase CPUfreq, QPIfreq and NBfreq. If I understand correctly, the Bclock will be limited to around 220MHz due to technology limitations, much like we see with the Phenom processors, which mostly hit the limit at 250Mhz, no matter what voltages are increased.the 220 isnt the limit i think, its the resulting qpi speed that, even when using the lowest qpi multiplier, is still too high.


How about the QPI/NB freqs? What would be the limits on air? Will there be multipliers available to finetune these? Any special ratios we need to keep in mind (~AMD's NB/HT ratio)?higher qpi doesnt really help performance... just like with hypertransport the bandwidth is way more than you need... its only gonna be saturdated in the server segment i think

[Pt1t]

Sacha, Could you take pictures of inside of NB cooling ?

[SF3D]

I just flashed the latest bios and there is some nice improvements. Thanks Saaya!

Check your PM-

I will continue testing now :up:

[saaya]

Sacha, Could you take pictures of inside of NB cooling ?huh? what do you mean? :D


I just flashed the latest bios and there is some nice improvements. Thanks Saaya!

Check your PM-

I will continue testing now :up:good to hear!
was about to check why the flash didnt work for you at first :D

[massman]

Did you test multiple cpu's already? If so, does the max qpi frequency vary between processors, or will we have to search for gem motherboards? :).

[Pt1t]

huh? what do you mean? :D

good to hear!
was about to check why the flash didnt work for you at first :D

http://glostransporthistory.visit-gloucestershire.co.uk/images/Air_NRDC_SRN1.jpg

I found !

[SF3D]

Hahaha Tomas!

Here is the true image of the cooler:


http://www.aijaa.com/img/b/00062/2843468.jpg (http://www.aijaa.com/v.php?i=2843468.jpg)

This is working very well and NB is cool. Fan is attached to fanmate, so it's not spinning 100% all the time.

[saaya]

http://glostransporthistory.visit-gloucestershire.co.uk/images/Air_NRDC_SRN1.jpg

I found ! :lol: and yes petri, i did the same thing :D

[pajaa]

[...]
why not? and yes, BloodRage will be black pcb too :D

Well, SAS isn't exactly mainstream, is it?
Hopefully the BloodRage (where do you get those names from?) will not feature this speaker-inspired heatsink design, which shows quite well the entertaining charakter of this board, suitable for digital life.

I thought, you are the mainboard therapist, to do your job :D

[BenchZowner]

I tested those ram yesterday , and i get 2000mhz 7-6-5-15 32M stable for 2.1v on 4 sticks.

What the hell!
DDR3-2000 7-6-5-15 32M stable @ 2.1V ??? :eek:

Are those Steven's new pieces of work ?

[saaya]

Well, SAS isn't exactly mainstream, is it?it wasnt my decision to put it on there, but i dont see whats wrong with it?
you prefer a board with less features? :confused: :P

the ports can be used for SATA drives or SAS drives, which gives a nice perf boost and adding sas doesnt cost a lot, so why not? asus did it and i think others will do it as well.


Hopefully the BloodRage will not feature this speaker-inspired heatsink design, which shows quite well the entertaining charakter of this board, suitable for digital life.obviously not, it has a way different heatsink :D


(where do you get those names from?)
theres this alley in taipei with a small run down shop that sell them :D
whats wrong with the name?
if you have a better one let me hear it ;)


I thought, you are the mainboard therapist, to do your job :Dfor quantum force, digital life is a different department :)

FYI, reading spots for vtt and vnb:

http://www.abload.de/thumb/vttesa.jpg (http://www.abload.de/image.php?img=vttesa.jpg) http://www.abload.de/thumb/nb50k.jpg (http://www.abload.de/image.php?img=nb50k.jpg)


What the hell!
DDR3-2000 7-6-5-15 32M stable @ 2.1V ??? :eek:

Are those Steven's new pieces of work ?
well well well... guess you should have come to the GOOC to pick up 4 sticks as well :D hows it going bill? :)

[Johnny Bravo]

sure that NB readpoint is correct Saaya?

[boblemagnifique]

beautiful motherboard !!

[pajaa]

it wasnt my decision to put it on there, but i dont see whats wrong with it?
you prefer a board with less features? :confused: :P

Nothing's wrong. The opposite is right: A nice-to-have feature, even on a mainstream board :D
Ich wollte nur ein wenig draufrum reiten, das ist alles. ;)



i
theres this alley in taipei with a small run down shop that sell them :D
whats wrong with the name?
if you have a better one let me hear it ;)

There is a shop that sells Codenames? I did'nt know that. :rofl:
Well, I haven't a better one... It's like Intel: Bad Axe, Bonetrail, Skulltrail, SmackOver.
So Foxconn has its blood line.



for quantum force, digital life is a different department :)

I didn't know that. Thanks :)

[ZillaPct]

Foxconn will soon let this motherboard flow out of their factories to you my dear buddies :D

This motherboard is targeted to the mainstream market and it will not have all the features, that upcoming Quantum Force series X58 motherboard will have.

This motherboard will not be so expensive, so you might want to check this out.

Specs (some):
* X58 tylersburg chipset
* ICH10-R southbridge
* 6 phase power circuit for CPU
* 2x 16X PCI-E and 2x 8X PCI-E slots
* 6 memory slots for 3-channel memory configurations
* Maximum memory amount xx?
* All basic connectors you need in today computing
* Selectable QPI 4800GT/s, 6400GT/s (Gigatransfers/s)
* All adjustments for basic overclocking

Here is the pictures:

[center]http://www.aijaa.com/img/b/00757/2838886.jpg (http://www.aijaa.com/v.php?i=2838886.jpg)





Saaya good motherboard, Foxconn in the past year has much improved the layout of their cards, if the blackops has proved an excellent product this card will not be less....:up:

Nahalem along with the bus qpi are excellent tools for every overclocker, the difference of architecture with out the performance level will allow for easier management of DDR3 phase Vs. Intel Memory controller.

If you have good micron GTS or GTR with low cas, the Nahalem architecture break new overclock record......:D:D

[hixie]

I have this board in my hands right now. I will add some pictures latter.

[fatman]

board is very nice i like the openness of everything. like the new style of nb and sd cooling alot really nice, colors are great like the scheme alot, get rid of ide and add more sata i know you cant do that but it would be nice. like the new power and reset buttons? or just a label? not sure.

this board is really nice i would love to get it. cant wait to see what the quantum series will be

yay 2 e sata make me happy.

[pcaddict]

lots of usb's nice (:

[Lagaaja]

Board seems sick, I'd like to get my hands on that beauty. Altough I'm bit worried about the cooling..

[SF3D]

Altough I'm bit worried about the cooling..

Actually this cooling solution is not bad. I just measured the temperature and it is 29C idle and 36C on load. (Vantage)

I have this little Quantum Force fan attached to the NB cooler :up:

[diezel]

Nice pictures ! SF3D

[Junos]

There are lots of rumours concerning processor and memory voltage with Nehalem. Some claim that they're synchronized - going over 1.65V for memory can kill your cpu.

Is it true or just fud? (I suspect fud, but one can never be sure) :)

[Astratuner]

to bad you can use only 1333 ddr3 memory since all the faster ones require to much voltage.


man this s*** hard.

[SF3D]

Haha guys :D

Don't be so negative! I have used 1.8V+ memory voltage two days now and there is no problems.

If your CPU is really early ES, there might be problems. Those CPU's are not in public use, so this shouldn't be an issue.

Memory will overclock like before and in this board you can choose speeds up to 2000MHz(DDR3) (800,1066,133,1600,1800,2000)

I tested my sticks today at 1400MHz and 6-6-6-15 timings (1.8V) :up:

[DMH]

Haha guys :D

Don't be so negative! I have used 1.8V+ memory voltage two days now and there is no problems.

If your CPU is really early ES, there might be problems. Those CPU's are not in public use, so this shouldn't be an issue.

Memory will overclock like before and in this board you can choose speeds up to 2000MHz(DDR3) (800,1066,133,1600,1800,2000)

I tested my sticks today at 1400MHz and 6-6-6-15 timings (1.8V) :up:

Run some dual 32M Pi with that voltage just to see:D

[Astratuner]

SF3D see how long you can keep it that way :D

[SF3D]

Run some dual 32M Pi with that voltage just to see:D

I did dual 32M and quad 32M without problems :up:


SF3D see how long you can keep it that way :D

I will :D

[Solarfall]

I did dual 32M and quad 32M without problems :up:



I will :D

and when can you share those numbers with us petri ?? :D

[DMH]

SF3D you broke the myth of the synchronous voltages.
Probably those warnings are simply to alert to that fact

[HDCHOPPER]

exellent color's !

my fav black & burnt orange :) HD raceing colors :)

cant wait for the QF release of it

[M3kk]

my fav black & burnt orange :) HD raceing colors :)


Same here, my favorite color combination :D.

[tiro_uspsss]

from the roller-coaster coolers of MSI to the wacky speaker'n'knob coolers of Foxconn.. :rolleyes:

simplicity ppl, simplicity

[Cooper]

http://www.aijaa.com/v.php?i=2838959.jpg

that x58 is HUGE :eek:

anyone knows why? AFAIK it's just pci-e, DMI and QPI buses there.

[billdavis]

right

were all going to abide buy the recomended voltage, SURE

[Creep-DK]

OFC we are :rolleyes::rofl:

Anyways damn nice looking mobo, good chance i'll be getting myself one of them for x-max heheh

[pcaddict]

very nice looking board!

[Anemone]

Well while I'm not a fan of Orange, you clearly outbid Asus on the Orange/gold pci-e x16 slots. Perhaps you could send one of your color specialists to Asus to show them what a consistent color scheme really looks like so they have a chance to come out with a P6T mark 2 :)

But personally prefer blue/black and red/black and lastly green/black, but at least it's got a clean, consistent look to it.

[SF3D]

I have some good news for you guys! :up:

The price of this motherboard will be around 250 USD. (185€)

This motherboard should be available immediately when Core i7 is launched.

[Chri$ch]

nice price for a X58 Mainboard :)

[Mr.Guvernment]

pics not working.

[dj.oxa]

great price:)

[SF3D]

Hahaa.. This is the first time I exceeded the bandwidth limitation.

I have to rehost pictures soon! Sorry!

[DMH]

I have some good news for you guys! :up:

The price of this motherboard will be around 250 USD. (185€)

This motherboard should be available immediately when Core i7 is launched.

In Europe it will be 250€ because they convert in 1$-1€

[MomijiTMO]

Great price!

[Catz]

both is possible, if you certify for SLI you can still use xfire. and xfire works fine even when you use nf200 chips, so in any case, if it supports sli, it support xfire as well. the only exception beeing nvidias own chipsets :D


Is that for EVERY xfire board? :confused:

[Slovnaft]

Nice price, but...
let's see some BoodRage PICS Plaaeeze!

[SF3D]

Pictures are fixed.

Yes DMH, but I hope that the price will be around 200€ in Finland. We have quite cheap hardware here. Germany is the cheapest and I think we are the next.

[saaya]

sure that NB readpoint is correct Saaya?not 100%, our engineers had already gone home that night :D

beautiful motherboard !!thank you :D
but even the heatsink? :lol:



There is a shop that sells Codenames? I did'nt know that. :rofl:
where did you think those names come from? :D


Saaya good motherboard, Foxconn in the past year has much improved the layout of their cards, if the blackops has proved an excellent product this card will not be less....:up:

Nahalem along with the bus qpi are excellent tools for every overclocker, the difference of architecture with out the performance level will allow for easier management of DDR3 phase Vs. Intel Memory controller.

If you have good micron GTS or GTR with low cas, the Nahalem architecture break new overclock record......:D:D
yes, i think so too, just look at the foxconn boards from 1 year ago :D
they looked and overclocked like ecs boards :P hehe

this board is not the quantum force board, so there will be a board with a lot more beefy pwm for cpu, nb and memory, optimized layout for overclocking, higher voltages, more voltage options, more bios options etc etc :D

regarding the memory, well... especially earlier stepping nehalem chips are sensitive to memory voltage and some died with 1.9v after just some hours :S
but the recent chips seem to work fine with up to 2.3v, at least for benching.
intels official statement however, is that more than 1.65v vdimm is not recommended as it may degrade the lifetime of the processor.

i think intel is playing it safe here with 1.65v, and the newer settpings seem to be much better in that regard, so... it SHOULD be ok to run 2v 24/7...

id recommend you guys to start with 1.65v and move up bit by bit and check if its scaling at all... if you cant get higher with more vdimm then the imc might not like higher volts and forcing it might damage/degrade it.


I have this board in my hands right now. I will add some pictures latter.bring it on! :D


board is very nice i like the openness of everything. like the new style of nb and sd cooling alot really nice, colors are great like the scheme alot, get rid of ide and add more sata i know you cant do that but it would be nice. like the new power and reset buttons? or just a label? not sure.

this board is really nice i would love to get it. cant wait to see what the quantum series will be

yay 2 e sata make me happy.yes, there will be power and reset buttons :D glad you like the colors :)
and yes, i asked them to remove ide and floppy countless times but they are worried itll hurt sales of the boards... people like us dont care, but there are still some people who do, especially system integrators tend to be very conserative...

you really use eSATA? what for?
tbh that was one of the things i recommended to remove as well... :D


lots of usb's nice (:yeah :D
i recommended them to add even more and not leave an empty space for the PWM heatsink ventilation since i doubt that does a lot anyways :P


Board seems sick, I'd like to get my hands on that beauty. Altough I'm bit worried about the cooling..for stock operation its ok i guess... i forwarded them your concerns and they are testing the cooling performance again and check alternative solutions.


Actually this cooling solution is not bad. I just measured the temperature and it is 29C idle and 36C on load. (Vantage)

I have this little Quantum Force fan attached to the NB cooler :up:
yeah, if you rip off the cover and put a fan on top it works pretty well actually :D


Nice pictures ! SF3Dyes indeed! i forgot to mention that, thanks a lot for the nice pics petri! :toast:
buying that cam sure was worth it :D


There are lots of rumours concerning processor and memory voltage with Nehalem. Some claim that they're synchronized - going over 1.65V for memory can kill your cpu.

Is it true or just fud? (I suspect fud, but one can never be sure) :)
well i think it was somebody not technical at all who interpreted things this way. vcore and vdimm were never tied. there MAY have been an internal relation between vcore and vdimm however, or a relation of vdimm vtt and vcore, or vdimm vtt and cpu vtt (most likely) which resulted in high vdimm indirectly killing/damaging the cpu. but actually early chips didnt like ANY voltage to be above 1.65v or they would degrade or die, which some intel people told us sounds like a manufacturing process limitation... which makes most sense to me as well...

anyways, it seems to be fixed/improved in the C stepping now :)


to bad you can use only 1333 ddr3 memory since all the faster ones require to much voltage.
man this s*** hard.not really, you can use 1600 and higher, there are some vendors preparing tripple channel memory kits with low vdimm already :D



I tested my sticks today at 1400MHz and 6-6-6-15 timings (1.8V) :up:sweet! :D :toast:

exellent color's !

my fav black & burnt orange :) HD raceing colors :)

cant wait for the QF release of it

Same here, my favorite color combination :D.really? didnt know orange was that popular. maybe its cause its halloween :D

from the roller-coaster coolers of MSI to the wacky speaker'n'knob coolers of Foxconn.. :rolleyes:

simplicity ppl, simplicitydont forget the msi windmill! that one was pretty funny too :lol:


http://www.aijaa.com/v.php?i=2838959.jpg

that x58 is HUGE :eek:

anyone knows why? AFAIK it's just pci-e, DMI and QPI buses there.
yeah and it gets really hot too, about the same as x38/x48 :o
and yes, its only qpi and pciE, really weird it gets that hot huh?
i dont think its pciE that creates that much heat... i suspect its actually the qpi interface that runs so hot.


Well while I'm not a fan of Orange, you clearly outbid Asus on the Orange/gold pci-e x16 slots. Perhaps you could send one of your color specialists to Asus to show them what a consistent color scheme really looks like so they have a chance to come out with a P6T mark 2 :)
what do you mean?


But personally prefer blue/black and red/black and lastly green/black, but at least it's got a clean, consistent look to it. thanks :toast:


Is that for EVERY xfire board? :confused:
huh? what do you mean?
not every xfire board can run sli (well it COULD if nvidia wouldnt block it)
i hope that answers your question :D


Nice price, but...
let's see some BoodRage PICS Plaaeeze!
why are you people so crazy to see pics of bloodrage? :D
itll be released later and the layout might still change...
just use your imagination, BloodRage uses red slots, has an optimized layout for overclocking, more voltage options and higher voltages, beefier pwms for cpu mem and nb, and it will support OC Panel of course :D

http://www.abload.de/thumb/2838892su0.jpg (http://www.abload.de/image.php?img=2838892su0.jpg)

[ZoLKoRn]

very nice color black and orange it looking violent and beautiful :D

[pmp]

why are you people so crazy to see pics of bloodrage? :D
Handjob syndrom, observed within xs and hustler ppls :rofl:

[twwen2]

Somebody finally realized that combining purple with green with blue with neon orange is not the way forwards.


+1, the color combo is among the best i've seen, ever! :yepp:

Speaker thingy looks a bit tacky, but funky none-the-less.

[MomijiTMO]

Actually I like purple and green but I think I'm that 0.002% :D. I want good Bloodrage images before I RAGE!!!.

Question for those in the know. Does the mobo come with a small fan to go on the nb or is that an aftermarket item? If you had a perfect size fan ..... cool :)

[M.Beier]

Very interesting look, and actually, I like the speaker, as its not a highend board, but the mainstream, then its actually a nice feature, IMO....


congrats m8 for this nice mobo :) we will have a nice xmas, everybody will bench nehalem at the end of this year...
layout seems perfect, except the NB cooler, i don't like it, saaya be creative but not that much :D
BUT... if they focus on "digital life / digital home" support and looking, i can smell some quantum force x58 in the future, am i wrong? :p:

Bala, did I mention Im coming this christmas? :)
Im very strongly considering celebrating christmas with Dina...
And I will leave again on 3-4th January...

[HDCHOPPER]

thanks for the BloodRage pic saaya !
must have water nb :D

[Slovnaft]

why are you people so crazy to see pics of bloodrage? :D
itll be released later and the layout might still change...
just use your imagination, BloodRage uses red slots, has an optimized layout for overclocking, more voltage options and higher voltages, beefier pwms for cpu mem and nb, and it will support OC Panel of course :D

http://www.abload.de/thumb/2838892su0.jpg (http://www.abload.de/image.php?img=2838892su0.jpg)

Because I theoretically can already blow some pounds sterling on a full nehalem rig at OCUK!
This release is getting soddamn close!

[zads27]

not really, you can use 1600 and higher, there are some vendors preparing tripple channel memory kits with low vdimm already :D


Yes indeed.

Wintec Industries (http://www.ampxmemory.com/) has been sitting on (not releasing) a 1GB DDR3-1800 CL9 1.5V product for a few months now..

We haven't seen there being enough demand for this product in the dual-channel enthusiast market,
so we're probably just gonna wait to launch this product and make it a tri-channel kit, synchronized with the Nehalem release date.

[SF3D]

Here is some good news for everyone who will be using nehalem :D


http://www.aijaa.com/img/b/00484/2862317.jpg (http://www.aijaa.com/v.php?i=2862317.jpg)

Prices:

DDR3-1600+ Tri-Channel, 1GBx3 Kit: 230 USD (incl VAT.)
DDR3-1600+ Tri-Channel, 2GBx3 Kit: 350 USD (incl VAT.)


http://www.aijaa.com/img/b/00965/2862330.jpg (http://www.aijaa.com/v.php?i=2862330.jpg)

[dread77]

Well these are good and bad news SF3D.
Meaning that others, like Cellshock, G. Skill will follow this path.
And the bad news are that most probably the existing DDR3 kits are useless.

Non of the existing High Performance kits, between 1600-1800MHz, works with less than 1,8+V. To be more specific, I am referring to kits using GTR/GTS Micron chips, which I consider the best performers in DDR3 area. This proves that there is a problem with high voltage DDR3 kits, and the processor, if exposed, can be damaged.
Please, correct me if I am wrong, since you are already testing this combo.

[SF3D]

Well dread77, you have a valid point there, but still the best D9GTR sticks will do 1600MHz 8-8-8-20 easily with low volts. So, I don't see any problem here.

We really need these kind of memory sets to get best possible performance out of these systems.

[DMH]

Well these are good and bad news SF3D.
Meaning that others, like Cellshock, G. Skill will follow this path.
And the bad news are that most probably the existing DDR3 kits are useless.

Non of the existing High Performance kits, between 1600-1800MHz, works with less than 1,8+V. To be more specific, I am referring to kits using GTR/GTS Micron chips, which I consider the best performers in DDR3 area. This proves that there is a problem with high voltage DDR3 kits, and the processor, if exposed, can be damaged.
Please, correct me if I am wrong, since you are already testing this combo.

Tony said that Nehalem needs less voltage for the same ram speeds so maybe today kit's need 1,8V with C2D,with Corei7 they will need only 1,6V.
Also A-DATA will start to sell 3GB and 6GB kits with 1,65V-1,75V from factory;)

[pajaa]

[...]
where did you think those names come from? :D
[...]


Well, i thought of a 300 people ultra creative department... Obviously, I'm wrong. :D

If you use Intel Gbe- and other high quality chips on the Blood Rage, it's almost bought, nevermind the price, it's enthusiat.

[DMH]

3.8Ghz,4,2Ghz or 4.5Ghz??

[Chri$ch]

i think its ~3,63Ghz :p: (191x19)

[G H Z]

I have some good news for you guys! :up:

The price of this motherboard will be around 250 USD. (185€)

Excellent, price is where BO failed imo ;)

[DMH]

Excellent, price is where BO failed imo ;)

Well this board is not a Quantum Force board

[saaya]

Actually I like purple and green but I think I'm that 0.002% :D. I want good Bloodrage images before I RAGE!!!.

Question for those in the know. Does the mobo come with a small fan to go on the nb or is that an aftermarket item? If you had a perfect size fan ..... cool :)hahah, no, it doesnt come bundled, thats the fan that comes bundled with the blackops :D


thanks for the BloodRage pic saaya !
must have water nb :Dyour welcome ^^


Because I theoretically can already blow some pounds sterling on a full nehalem rig at OCUK!
This release is getting soddamn close!yeh, i saw it :D
BloodRage wont be out right after launch, just like the Rampage Extreme 2 it will come a bit later...


Yes indeed.

Wintec Industries (http://www.ampxmemory.com/) has been sitting on (not releasing) a 1GB DDR3-1800 CL9 1.5V product for a few months now..

We haven't seen there being enough demand for this product in the dual-channel enthusiast market,
so we're probably just gonna wait to launch this product and make it a tri-channel kit, synchronized with the Nehalem release date.well we will see... if the memory controllers really degrade with more than 1.65v after some time then there will be big demand for this memory, but if its fixed now and vdimm of up to 2v and more is ok, then nobody will care about low voltage memory in the desktop segment i think...


Tony said that Nehalem needs less voltage for the same ram speeds so maybe today kit's need 1,8V with C2D,with Corei7 they will need only 1,6V.
Also A-DATA will start to sell 3GB and 6GB kits with 1,65V-1,75V from factory;)yes, you need less vdimm for the same speed



If you use Intel Gbe- and other high quality chips on the Blood Rage, it's almost bought, nevermind the price, it's enthusiat.too expensive... well not THAT expensive, but they do cost quite a bit more than any other NIC and they dont really bring any advantage... :D

[MomijiTMO]

Oh well a fan is like what? $10 max? Who cares :p:

Thanks for the screenie too.

[T_M]

Thanks for this excellent info sasha

[Benny Lodewijk]

Thanks for the info SF3D and Saaya... this board looking great and the price info is really interesting

[saaya]

Thanks for this excellent info sasha
your welcome :toast:
if you guys have any more questions about nehalem let me know :)


Thanks for the info SF3D and Saaya... this board looking great and the price info is really interestingyour welcome man :toast:
like i said, if you have any questions just ask :D

[T_M]

unfortunately i dont seem to be getting any X58 loving, so have to rely on your real extreme world usage reports till November :(

[M.Beier]

Well, the QF Bloodrage will be a bit more expensive. It's not only the Foxconn motherboards..I think all vendors have their "too" expensive boards out there.




Too bad. Well, just hang on.. we will do our best to satisfy your needs (with screenshots) :rofl:

Here is another low clock, aircooled and untweaked 32M run in vista. You can try to guess the frequency. I can't tell it ;)

86554

you just broke my dream :mad:
I wanna see sub 5min with nehalem :yepp:
its been toooo long, now we need horsepowers!

[rgkpt]

nice board... ;)

[ZoLKoRn]

looking good for Nehalem horsepowers and i think it run about 4GHz ? :confused:

btw. wanna to try on this board :D:D:D

[ryba]

hmm I think SF3D make it with 21x200 ;)

16M with good memory performence - 4:19.078

3.85GHz, Triple Channel 1600 7-7-7-20

PS. Wolfdale must have almost 5GHz with higher mem freq. to make that :ROTF:

[saaya]

Well, the QF Bloodrage will be a bit more expensive. It's not only the Foxconn motherboards..I think all vendors have their "too" expensive boards out there. well... look at it that way, people complain about boards for 400USD but they buy a set of 400USD videocards and a 1000USD cpu... i dont know why, but people expect boards to be cheap for some reason... me too actually, i figured mainboard makers are cashing in big time on high end boards, but actually they dont... there isnt a lot of margin with high end boards, i was quite surprised...


Too bad. Well, just hang on.. we will do our best to satisfy your needs (with screenshots) :rofl:you are linking him to the GOOC babe galleries? :D


looking good for Nehalem horsepowers and i think it run about 4GHz ? :confused: :D

[Chri$ch]

hmm I think SF3D make it with 21x200 ;)
For 4.2Ghz is it to slow!

i think it is 3.8Ghz (19x200)...

i have seen a 4Ghz i7-920 (20x200) which does it in 10min 2secs. (without tweaks)

[SF3D]

hmm I think SF3D make it with 21x200 ;)

Haha...your guess was really high :D This is very powerful setup and fast board. I have to test XP next week and try the same settings. I think sub 10min is possible without too much effort.


looking good for Nehalem horsepowers and i think it run about 4GHz ? :confused:

No :rofl:


well... look at it that way, people complain about boards for 400USD but they buy a set of 400USD videocards and a 1000USD cpu... i dont know why, but people expect boards to be cheap for some reason... me too actually, i figured mainboard makers are cashing in big time on high end boards, but actually they dont... there isnt a lot of margin with high end boards, i was quite surprised..

No need to teach me dude :D I have never complained about the prices. You have to pay if you want to play ;)

[Catz]

Bloodrage photoshop for anyone interested :)

http://www.coolclocks.nl/datas/users/bloodrage.png

[JPQY]

Just run my test and i will know it SF3D:up:

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=202139

JP.

[ZoLKoRn]

Waaaa it wrong !!! :D

[SF3D]

Just run my test and i will know it SF3D:up:

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=202139

JP.

No. You have to wait :(

[kaskuli]

X58, Is the BlackOps in alpha testing yet?

[Catz]

X58, Is the BlackOps in alpha testing yet?

I think you are confused... X58 Bloodrage is the name for the new quantum force motherboard. The X48 BlackOps has been on the market now for quite a while :)

[kaskuli]

eh? Being on the market doesn't...argh, never mind.

[SF3D]

X58, Is the BlackOps in alpha testing yet?


eh? Being on the market doesn't...argh, never mind.

Sarcasm is the most intelligent class of humor, but you fail on this one :down:

Or I didn't get it :rolleyes:

[DMH]

Sarcasm is the most intelligent class of humor, but you fail on this one :down:

Or I didn't get it :rolleyes:

He probably wasn't able to get a BlackOPS or his was buggy:p:

[Catz]

Daaaamn.. that must have been one of the lamest tries at being sarcastic.... well... EVER? :rofl:

[SF3D]

Here is the same run as yesterday, but with tighter mem timings and unnecessary processes killed:



Here is some eight core action (click the small screen):

:up:

[SeLecT]

Thanks for sharing, SF3D! :)

I hope the Foxconnboard will be available soon after the release! I think saaya will give us the best support! :D Right, Sascha?! :p

[JPQY]

Here is some eight core action (click the small screen): ->see no screen...

If you use my program you will see your 8threads at 100% continous!
And i'am sure that the Nehalem will be faster then a Skulltrail at the same speed!

[HDCHOPPER]

saaya and support go hand & hand ! :D
sascha is on the ball his support has been ubove & beyond any thing eye have ever seen :up:!!

[saaya]

Bloodrage photoshop for anyone interested :)

hahah, nice! :D :toast:
ill show some you guys real pics soon :)


Here is the same run as yesterday, but with tighter mem timings and unnecessary processes killed:
Here is some eight core action (click the small screen):
:up:
i see nussing :D


Thanks for sharing, SF3D! :)

I hope the Foxconnboard will be available soon after the release! I think saaya will give us the best support! :D Right, Sascha?! :psure, but not to you!!! :P :lol:


saaya and support go hand & hand ! :D
sascha is on the ball his support has been ubove & beyond any thing eye have ever seen :up:!!thank you sir :D

[SeLecT]

sure, but not to you!!! :P :lol:


http://www.abload.de/img/traurig278e.png

I hope i will get a little bit of your support :p:

[SF3D]

Hi all! I hope to receive a new Core i7 965 XE CPU this week, so I can provide you some scores soon. Wish me luck with this new one ;)

The board is working like it should and Crysis / Crysis warhead is running well on SLI setup :up:

[SF3D]

NDA is finally over and I can share my first resuts with Core i7 940 CPU.

These were done with early stage, so better scores are coming later.

Setup:

Foxconn Renaissance X58 Digital life
A-Data 1600X DDR3 3x 1GB
Intel Core i7 940
Thermaltake TP 1200W

Screenshots:


http://www.aijaa.com/img/b/00160/3022956.jpg (http://www.aijaa.com/v.php?i=3022956.jpg)
http://www.aijaa.com/img/b/00755/3022959.jpg (http://www.aijaa.com/v.php?i=3022959.jpg)
http://www.aijaa.com/img/b/00379/3022962.jpg (http://www.aijaa.com/v.php?i=3022962.jpg)
http://www.aijaa.com/img/b/00956/3022964.jpg (http://www.aijaa.com/v.php?i=3022964.jpg)
http://www.aijaa.com/img/b/00324/3022967.jpg (http://www.aijaa.com/v.php?i=3022967.jpg)

[Lu(ky]

Wow I think Foxconn read my mind on what color board I want. It will match perfect with my Tribal Skulls case. :) And not to mention the price of this board wow. I am wondering if this board will run G Skill D9GTS 12800 3 x 1GB sticks? Also why is there no RESET/CMOS buttons like the BlackOps? Great job so far on the reviews SF3D :up: and Saaya. ;)

http://www.aijaa.com/img/b/00451/2838890.jpg
http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj252/russb3n/IMG_0292-1.jpg

[SF3D]

Haha.. this motherboard will be perfect to your case.

[BiTsCrEaM]

Looking very nice, when can we expect BIOS pics etc.?

[HDCHOPPER]

are you just being safe or is 3.8 the limit for your cpu ??

[Lu(ky]

SF3D any more benches coming our way? How does the board do with high voltage? Would you recommend water cooling parts other then CPU. Thanks

[SF3D]

are you just being safe or is 3.8 the limit for your cpu ??

I thought that it was the limit of my cpu, but it wasn't It can do 4GHz vantage/3DM06 on air, so it's not the worst 940 cpu.


SF3D any more benches coming our way? How does the board do with high voltage? Would you recommend water cooling parts other then CPU. Thanks

Yes. I should receive one 965 CPU tomorrow and I will do some more testing. LN2 test will come when I will have car again. I crashed my car last Thursday :down:

You don't need watercooling on other parts than CPU. X58 might get hot, if you stress it a lot, but it shouldn't be an issue.

[SF3D]

Here is some bios shots. As you can see, there is only the very basic options available. (Sorry about the quality)


http://www.aijaa.com/img/b/00313/3082530.jpg (http://www.aijaa.com/v.php?i=3082530.jpg)
http://www.aijaa.com/img/b/00469/3082535.jpg (http://www.aijaa.com/v.php?i=3082535.jpg)
http://www.aijaa.com/img/b/00475/3082536.jpg (http://www.aijaa.com/v.php?i=3082536.jpg)
http://www.aijaa.com/img/b/00400/3082544.jpg (http://www.aijaa.com/v.php?i=3082544.jpg)
http://www.aijaa.com/img/b/00635/3082548.jpg (http://www.aijaa.com/v.php?i=3082548.jpg)
http://www.aijaa.com/img/b/00290/3082550.jpg (http://www.aijaa.com/v.php?i=3082550.jpg)
http://www.aijaa.com/img/b/00110/3082551.jpg (http://www.aijaa.com/v.php?i=3082551.jpg)
http://www.aijaa.com/img/b/00732/3082553.jpg (http://www.aijaa.com/v.php?i=3082553.jpg)

[Lu(ky]

What do you think the MAX OC on water with a i7-920 in Triple channel & this board?

[tayto_-]

I have some good news for you guys! :up:

The price of this motherboard will be around 250 USD. (185€)

This motherboard should be available immediately when Core i7 is launched.


I've just seen this board @ Overclockers for £293.74 inc VAT !!!! :eek: that's about 340 euro!!!! :mad: What the hell! i really wanted this Mobo! but not at that price! :down:

Anybody know where i can find it cheaper in europe ?

[BrokeDown]

Wow. That board is simply amazing. I love the layout and colors. I'm 99% sure this will be the next board I go with. I was planning on a C2D/790i build but now that i7 is out I think I'm going to wait a little bit and go all out on this one.

When is this board supposed to be available for sale in the US?

[Lu(ky]

So when or where is this board for SALE? Does this board have any CMOS/RESET buttons on it?

Thanks

[SF3D]

So when or where is this board for SALE? Does this board have any CMOS/RESET buttons on it?

Thanks

It should be available really soon in your area. You can already get the board in EU, but I don't know about USA.

http://geizhals.at/a378149.html

Price isn't that bad. 270€ and it will get lower after launch :up:

[BrokeDown]

SF3D, do you know when the US will get this board?

[SF3D]

SF3D, do you know when the US will get this board?

No I don't. Sorry! It shouldn't take too long.



Somebody asked about cmos reset button. It is there. Check the area behind S-ATA connectors. There is triangle in the button and there is red light in it, when motherboard is powered up.

[TheCool]

It's up on newegg:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813186161

[BrokeDown]

It's up on newegg:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813186161

Wow...very tempting...although I'm looking at another $800 in upgrades:(

[Lu(ky]

I will be pulling the trigger on this board with a i7-920 at the end of this month... :) Will update with PIX with setup complete.... And I was wondering if I could use my current memory on this board? G Skill DDR3 PC-12800 2GB (D9GTS)

Thanks for your help :) SF3D

[Mescalamba]

I will be pulling the trigger on this board with a i7-920 at the end of this month... :) Will update with PIX with setup complete.... And I was wondering if I could use my current memory on this board? G Skill DDR3 PC-12800 2GB (D9GTS)

Thanks for your help :) SF3D

They have 1.9V voltage, I guess that on lower frequency (and voltage) you should be able to run them without problems. Its just matter of trying it. I think that 1.75V is ok and shouldnt kill CPU.

[Telo]

I did some reading a few months back and found a rumor that high board manufacturers could [persay] remove the CPU's responsibility to control the voltage for the RAM thus allowing people to you ethusiast level RAM on the X58 boards.
My question, is that even possible?

[Mescalamba]

I did some reading a few months back and found a rumor that high board manufacturers could [persay] remove the CPU's responsibility to control the voltage for the RAM thus allowing people to you ethusiast level RAM on the X58 boards.
My question, is that even possible?

Not sure if thats truth, but DFi claims that they actually did it on their new mobo. I think it can be done, cause design of Phenoms and i7 is very similar and as you know, Phenom dont care how much voltage you put into your ram
(tested 3V without destroying Phenom:).

[Blacklash]

I got one incoming...

[JokerCPoC]

Newegg is selling this motherboard for $277.99 now. :D

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813186161

But I'm still waiting for the BloodRage to go on sale. :up:

[Blacklash]

Hopefully I'll have results by next weekend. I need to find a place that actually has the 1366 adapter in stock for my Ultra extreme. I'd hate to get stuck with the stock cooler. I know some that have it listed and it's OOS. :(

[HDCHOPPER]

ya $280 not too bad my mars cost that much with ins. ;)

com'on Bloodrage :D

[breathemetal]

Looks nice except for the "speaker" in the middle. -_-
I dont like that at all.
I'll wait for Blood Rage (moste likely) lol

[Blacklash]

Yeah I don't care for the NB cooler either. I like the rest though, and the price.

If it performs well, I'll be happy.

I am actually eager to test SLi in it.

BTW some guy on Newegg is suggesting this board is Crossfire only. That is BS according to the official manual. Here's a cap from the SLi section in the .pdf-

http://img153.imageshack.us/my.php?image=foxslifm0.jpg

BTW 2, for people that need a decent ram kit try the below. 270usd DDR 3 1600 3 x 2Gb-

http://www.mushkin.com/doc/products/memory_detail.asp?id=732

[saaya]

Wow I think Foxconn read my mind on what color board I want. It will match perfect with my Tribal Skulls case. :) And not to mention the price of this board wow. I am wondering if this board will run G Skill D9GTS 12800 3 x 1GB sticks? Also why is there no RESET/CMOS buttons like the BlackOps? Great job so far on the reviews SF3D :up: and Saaya. ;)

http://www.aijaa.com/img/b/00451/2838890.jpg
http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj252/russb3n/IMG_0292-1.jpghahaha yeah looks perfect for your case! :D
and yes, theres a reset button :)


I've just seen this board @ Overclockers for £293.74 inc VAT !!!! :eek: that's about 340 euro!!!! :mad: What the hell! i really wanted this Mobo! but not at that price! :down:

Anybody know where i can find it cheaper in europe ?is it still that expensive in the uk? prices were crazy before the launch but should be much lower now. even 270euros is still high...


I will be pulling the trigger on this board with a i7-920 at the end of this month... :) Will update with PIX with setup complete.... And I was wondering if I could use my current memory on this board? G Skill DDR3 PC-12800 2GB (D9GTS)

Thanks for your help :) SF3Dshould work fine, you should increase vtt to 1.35v, then you can use vdimm up to 2v safely it seems from what everybody reported so far :)


I did some reading a few months back and found a rumor that high board manufacturers could [persay] remove the CPU's responsibility to control the voltage for the RAM thus allowing people to you ethusiast level RAM on the X58 boards.
My question, is that even possible?
the cpu doesnt control the memory voltage, so im not sure what you mean...
there was a rumor that vcore=vdimm on core i7, which was nonsense, and that vcore and vdimm are directly connected on the board, which was nonsense too :D


Hopefully I'll have results by next weekend. I need to find a place that actually has the 1366 adapter in stock for my Ultra extreme. I'd hate to get stuck with the stock cooler. I know some that have it listed and it's OOS. :(yeah, annoying huh? thats why BloodRage has 775 mounting holes :D
even IF you find an adapter for your heatsink, its annoying to order it, get it shipped, pay 20$ for it, wait for it, and then fiddle with the mounting all the time... i tried the thermalright ultra extreme, tuniq tower and some more tower heatsinks and watercooling kits and they all mount fine :)

[Blacklash]

Ah well I should be able to run 3.30GHz or so until I get the 1336 adapter kit.

[ReverendMaynard]

I'm getting mixed info on exactly what card configs the Ren. supports. Some have said no Sli, and Crossfire only. Is this true saaya?

[SF3D]

SLI will work for sure. All X58 motherboards support both SLI / CF.

[Josifek]

HAHAHA i just cant help it, that NB cooler looks like a speaker :rofl: Nice board though, i wonder if it can beat Rampage II :confused:

[M3kk]

SLI will work for sure. All X58 motherboards support both SLI / CF.

Dont be sure :).

[SF3D]

Dont be sure :).

:D Yes.. I can't speak about that, cause there may be some "cheap" X58 motherboards, which might not support SLI.

But this thread is all about Renaissance and SLI will work on this motherboard for sure. I have tested both CF and SLI :up: Is that clear enough now :p:

[Blacklash]

Download the manual in .pdf form from Foxconn. SLi details are on page 115 and a few before.

It is supported on the Foxconn Renaissance mobo.

I linked a cap of it a few posts ago-

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showpost.php?p=3449677&postcount=159

I'll have hard results for you to further prove it this coming weekend. I'll post them in this thread. I'm running GTX 260 SLi.

[Jinxy]

Its a shame they placed the PCIE slots right on top of each other as I did like the look of this board, but want to be able to go to Tri-Sli at some stage so its a no go for me.

[Blacklash]

That's the reason I gave it 4 stars vs 5 on Newegg.

The slot placement would limit you to 2 dual slot cooler cards or 4 single slot cards. So for nVidia you can go SLi and for ATi you could go X2 Crossfire or HD 4850 Crossfire X. You might be able to do Tri-SLi if you used waterblocks on your nVidia cards.

[Duke-Nukem]

Nice board. More specs found HERE: http://www.foxconnchannel.com/product/Motherboards/detail_overview.aspx?ID=en-us0000431

[Blacklash]

EDIT:

Never mind. I see it doesn't report altered clocks under the BIOS. I can only see them in windows.

Silly. i975x showed projected changes immediately.

[Blacklash]

I got 3.6GHz on the stock cooler with 1.28v. I could boot with 1.25v. The CPU test in 06 would freeze half way through though. 1.28v cured that.

I got idles in the high 40s and load for normal applications is in the mid 60s. No, I'm not going to bother dropping prime on my CPU with the stock cooler.

I am eager to get my Ultra Extreme installed again. I will be shooting for 3.9 and if it takes more than 1.375v to hold it, I probably won't bother.

That CMOS reset button is nice. It's saved me some trouble a few times.

So far I like this 920 and the Foxconn mobo a lot. I'll be able to test SLi as soon as I get a flexible SLi bridge. Ordered one below-

http://www.sidewindercomputers.com/flslicafornv.html

On a side note, my Evga vanilla GTX 260 can do the same clocks as my XFX, or that is 730 with a 1532 shader clock. Can't wait to test 'em in SLi. :)

[Ch3ck5um]

Well I should be getting mine tomorrow morning :)

I went with:

Core i7 920
Foxconn Renaissance X58
Corsair XMS3 Triple channel Kit 3x2GB
2x Samsung F1 1TB HDD
Corsair TX750 PSU

Its gonna be a revival of my Coolermaster ATCS 101 which has been resting for far too long in the cupboard!

I'm leaving the graphics department open for the moment until I check to see what fits best.

[Spoiler]

Has anyone tested 6 x 2GB yet on this board? I'd love to get 2 6GB DDR3 kits if possible.

[Blacklash]

Has anyone tested 6 x 2GB yet on this board? I'd love to get 2 6GB DDR3 kits if possible.

Not yet. I might go that way and currently I'm just 3 x 2Gb.

If you do it, populate the orange slots first, get it running, shut down, then fill the black slots, and reboot again.

[Blacklash]

I've got my Thermalright installed and I still can't get much beyond 3626MHz. I think I'm doing something wrong with uncore. I've been leaving that to auto. Anyone have an idea what range it should manually be set to for a swing at 3.9GHz?

[cloned]

So is that thing on the NB really a speaker?

[Blacklash]

I tried 19 x 190 and every time I have to clear the CMOS to post again no matter how tame the other system settings and no matter how high the voltage. So a based clock of higher than 183 = no post for me. I haven't experimented with turbo mode as of yet. Perhaps that will work.

EDIT:
Yep that's it. If I want to get 3.8GHz I'm going to need to use turbo mode. It works fine like that though.

[Ch3ck5um]

I tried 19 x 190 and every time I have to clear the CMOS to post again no matter how tame the other system settings and no matter how high the voltage. So a based clock of higher than 183 = no post for me. I haven't experimented with turbo mode as of yet. Perhaps that will work.

EDIT:
Yep that's it. If I want to get 3.8GHz I'm going to need to use turbo mode. It works fine like that though.

Thanks for the info Blacklash :up:, I have the same board and cpu as you so I am going to have a go at overclocking this weekend as soon as I get my waterblock on.

[Blacklash]

:D Yes.. I can't speak about that, cause there may be some "cheap" X58 motherboards, which might not support SLI.

But this thread is all about Renaissance and SLI will work on this motherboard for sure. I have tested both CF and SLI :up: Is that clear enough now :p:

Ok I got my flexible SLi bridges and there is nothing I can do to get GTX 260 SLi working properly in this motherboard.

I've tried the BIOS at default settings and setting the PCI-e slots to enabled with port 0 as high priority. The reason I did that is I get no signal from the card in slot 0 with two cards installed and rather get a signal from the second orange slot card before driver installation.

I've switched the cards around and tried a host of BIOS settings. Including default, PCI-e high priority disabled, with other slots to auto. PCI-e high priority disabled plus other slots enabled, PCI-e high priority set to slot 0, and others enabled, and PCI-e high priority set to slot 0 and other slots auto.

After I install the nVidia drivers I can get a signal from the top slot card and not until windows is prompting me for my password.

When I start the nVidia CP there are no options available for SLi.

It treats my card much like my BX2 did my 8800GT I used as a PhysX card. However these are not different cards. They're twin Evga GTX 260s. Same BIOS, same core, memory and shader clock.

Any ideas would be appreciated. I've been playing with this thing for hours switching cards around, reinstalling drivers and fiddling with the BIOS. No luck.

This mobo is behaving like my BX2 did with two cards, or that is no SLi support.

[Ch3ck5um]

Ok I got my flexible SLi bridges and there is nothing I can do to get GTX 260 SLi working properly in this motherboard.

I've tried the BIOS at default settings and setting the PCI-e slots to enabled with port 0 as high priority. The reason I did that is I get no signal from the card in slot 0 with two cards installed and rather get a signal from the second orange slot card before driver installation.

I've switched the cards around and tried a host of BIOS settings. Including default, PCI-e high priority disabled, with other slots to auto. PCI-e high priority disabled plus other slots enabled, PCI-e high priority set to slot 0, and others enabled, and PCI-e high priority set to slot 0 and other slots auto.

After I install the nVidia drivers I can get a signal from the top slot card and not until windows is prompting me for my password.

When I start the nVidia CP there are no options available for SLi.

It treats my card much like my BX2 did my 8800GT I used as a PhysX card. However these are not different cards. They're twin Evga GTX 260s. Same BIOS, same core, memory and shader clock.

Any ideas would be appreciated. I've been playing with this thing for hours switching cards around, reinstalling drivers and fiddling with the BIOS. No luck.

This mobo is behaving like my BX2 did with two cards, or that is no SLi support.

Hi Blacklash,

I have 2 x GTX 280's in SLI using a flexible bridge and the 180 drivers.

I dont want to teach granny to suck eggs but check all cards are seated properly and the SLI bridge is free from visible defects as SLI definatly works on this board.

[Ch3ck5um]

Has anyone tested 6 x 2GB yet on this board? I'd love to get 2 6GB DDR3 kits if possible.

I have corsair XMS3 3x 2GB and it works fine, its rated at 1.65v 1600

[Ch3ck5um]

I tried 19 x 190 and every time I have to clear the CMOS to post again no matter how tame the other system settings and no matter how high the voltage. So a based clock of higher than 183 = no post for me. I haven't experimented with turbo mode as of yet. Perhaps that will work.

EDIT:
Yep that's it. If I want to get 3.8GHz I'm going to need to use turbo mode. It works fine like that though.

Could you list the changes you made to the bios to get to 3.8ghz?

[Blacklash]

Hi Blacklash,

I have 2 x GTX 280's in SLI using a flexible bridge and the 180 drivers.

I dont want to teach granny to suck eggs but check all cards are seated properly and the SLI bridge is free from visible defects as SLI definatly works on this board.

Interesting. Any ideas why I lose my video signal from my primary orange slot when installing a card in the second orange slot? I tried another SLi bridge from a friend and it still doesn't work properly for me.

Also what are your settings in the PCI-e area. Do you have the "high priority" option enabled etc?

It would have been nice for Foxconn to include a functional SLi bridge with this mobo. nVidia do not include bridges with their graphics card like ATi do with theirs.

I've used SLi and Crossfire before. I've also been building my own rigs since 1996.

I'd appreciate it if you or anyone else using this board could post a shot of a completed 3dmark06 run with SLi enabled. It would be good to include a shot from CPU-Z showing the mobo identification with the 06 bench cap.

When I get my Evga mobo up and running I am going to test these same cards and bridges on it. With the Foxconn I tried; one bridge installed towards the front, then one bridge installed towards the rear, then two bridges installed. Nothing I did would allow me to enable SLi.

It is possible I have faulty cards or bridges. These cards are fine separately and if the bridges are faulty it means I got three bad ones in a row. Again, the cards share the same BIOS, core clock, shader clock and mem clock.

[Blacklash]

Could you list the changes you made to the bios to get to 3.8ghz?

Just enabled turbo. CPU volts were raised to 1.35v and NB is just under 1.4v. CPU VTT is 1.35v. Ram is 1.65v. VT is disabled.

I am going to try the Evga mobo. I like the slot layout better and it should work well with dual slot Tri-SLi.

[Ch3ck5um]

Interesting. Any ideas why I lose my video signal from my primary orange slot when installing a card in the second orange slot? I tried another SLi bridge from a friend and it still doesn't work properly for me.

Also what are your settings in the PCI-e area. Do you have the "high priority" option enabled etc?

It would have been nice for Foxconn to include a functional SLi bridge with this mobo. nVidia do not include bridges with their graphics card like ATi do with theirs.

I've used SLi and Crossfire before. I've also been building my own rigs since 1996.

I'd appreciate it if you or anyone else using this board could post a shot of a completed 3dmark06 run with SLi enabled. It would be good to include a shot from CPU-Z showing the mobo identification with the 06 bench cap.

When I get my Evga mobo up and running I am going to test these same cards and bridges on it. With the Foxconn I tried; one bridge installed towards the front, then one bridge installed towards the rear, then two bridges installed. Nothing I did would allow me to enable SLi.

It is possible I have faulty cards or bridges. These cards are fine separately and if the bridges are faulty it means I got three bad ones in a row. Again, the cards share the same BIOS, core clock, shader clock and mem clock.

Everything is default in the bios.

3DMARK SLI first result:
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=9144893

Foxconn are sending out SLI bridges to their distributors as I have already spoken to them about it, they say contact your reseller and they will send you one for free.

I had the same issue with quad crossfire on this board with 4x3870's it disabled all DVI's apart from the bottom one.

3DMARK Crossfire:
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=9056785

[Ch3ck5um]

Just enabled turbo. CPU volts were raised to 1.35v and NB is just under 1.4v. CPU VTT is 1.35v. Ram is 1.65v. VT is disabled.

I am going to try the Evga mobo. I like the slot layout better and it should work well with dual slot Tri-SLi.

Thanks for that I will give it a go :)

[Ch3ck5um]

Strange I cant seem to find "Turbo Mode"

Are you using "Fox One" as I cannot get it to run as it states it not compatible with my motherboard.. hmm...

[Ch3ck5um]

Ahh.. found it

Under Intel PPM Configuration:

--> EIST Function enables turbo mode.

[Ch3ck5um]

Something I have noticed is this board does not like having 120mm fans plugged into the fan headers, although they are well within spec the bios has issues booting when they are installed.

So it seems that its not just Asus that cant get on board fan control sorted, time to dig out the Zalman fan mate.

[Blacklash]

It is possible I got three bad SLi bridges in a row. I'll test others on it when I have the chance.

I ordered two from Asus. One should arrive with my Evga mobo too. I'll try them all on the Foxconn mobo out of curiosity.

Sunbeam Rheobus and Zalman fan mate are good options for fan control. I don't jack mine into the mobo either. I've been using the below one from FrozenCPU for a while.

http://www.frozencpu.com/products/1001/bus-54/Sunbeam_4_Channel_Rheobus_-_Black.html?tl=c17s239b17&id=XJ2bmruU

I can't test SLi with default BIOS settings because it disables RAID. So I have to set default then enable RAID. I wouldn't be able to boot otherwise.

Is it possible Intel RAID borks SLi on this mobo?

[Ch3ck5um]

It could be if its the only thing thats not default.

Btw I haven't had any luck at all overclocking this board I think I am either doing it all wrong or I cant get a result from any clock other than default settings... all I get is black screen and have to reset bios to defaults to get back in, im sure its me doing something wrong, so could you put together a quick procedure of how best to overclock on this board to preserve my sanity? :)

Cheers

Ch3ck5um

[Blacklash]

I can tell you what has worked for me.

Let's speed up your boot first. If you aren't using the marvel RAID controller.

Go Adv. Settings>Onboard Device Config>SAS Controller-Disabled

Go to Fox CCU>Memory Timing Config>Perf. Tuning Mode-Manual>DRAM Freq 1066MHz 9-9-9-24

Go All Voltage>Memory, manually set the correct voltage here. For me it's 1.65v.

Save and exit.

Go right back into the BIOS.

Disable turbo

Go Fox CCU>Clock Mode>Manual
CPU Freq 160

Save and exit. You should have 3.2GHz

3.6GHz = as above but set the following under All Voltage first-

CPU Vcore Volt +0.07, CPU VTT +0.07, NB Volt 1.294v (Your CPU may need more vcore, adjust as needed)

Save and exit to let it apply the voltages.

Go back in the BIOS-

Under Fox CCU>CPU Freq, now set 180. Save and exit.

You should have 3.6GHz.

Once you are sure it's stable you can try tightening timings to 8-8-8-24. Leave uncore to automatic for all of these.

Usually when I OC on any mobo, I apply all my elevated voltages first. Save and exit. Then I put my memory where I wish it to be. Save and exit. Then the last thing I do is enter the BIOS and raise my CPU clock. Save and exit.


It could be if its the only thing thats not default.

Btw I haven't had any luck at all overclocking this board I think I am either doing it all wrong or I cant get a result from any clock other than default settings... all I get is black screen and have to reset bios to defaults to get back in, im sure its me doing something wrong, so could you put together a quick procedure of how best to overclock on this board to preserve my sanity? :)

Cheers

Ch3ck5um

[Ch3ck5um]

Your a star!

I will report back tonight hopefully with good news :)

[Ozzfest05]

So is that thing on the NB really a speaker?

lol this is the most commonly asked question when it comes to this mobo the speaker lol it will only play music once you reach over 6ghz then the sounds of "We Are The Champions" comes from the north bridge speaker heatsink

[Ch3ck5um]

Well that worked, thanks Blacklash

Stage 1: 3.2Ghz
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=9169305

[Ch3ck5um]

Stage 2: 3.4Ghz

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=9170283

[Blacklash]

Glad to help.

My EVGA X58 mobo arrived and the first thing I did was pull the flexible SLi bridge from the box. I tried it on the Foxconn mobo with my GTX 260s. Installed to the front = no options to enable SLi in the nVidia CP, installed to the rear = no options to enable SLi in the nVidia CP. I used default BIOS settings and stock system settings save having Intel RAID enabled.

I did uninstall the nVidia drivers in safe mode and clean my prefetch folder before adding the second card.

Based on my personal experience I can't recommend this mobo. The caveat there would be if my GTX 260s don't function in SLi with the EVGA X58 mobo.

Good luck and for now mine is being shelved. If the cards fail to work in SLi with my new mobo, I'll update.

[qube]

SF3D can you give me some good addreses to stores in Finland that sells WC gear and hardware.
Hardware in Sweden is so expensive and hard to find.

[Ch3ck5um]

Well it appears using 20x175 is the best stable clock for this combo without overvolting too much. This gets me 3.5ghz which is not too shabby for a non overclockers board.

Although I was hoping for more :)

It does seem like as soon as I hit 180 (err FSB) it defiantly pukes!

3.2GHz with no voltage changes is nice though :)

[Ch3ck5um]

I'm gonna try tweaking the memory more as I think the 8 8 8 19 1T may be rather aggressive for default values!

[Ch3ck5um]

Hahaha Tomas!

Here is the true image of the cooler:


http://www.aijaa.com/img/b/00062/2843468.jpg (http://www.aijaa.com/v.php?i=2843468.jpg)

This is working very well and NB is cool. Fan is attached to fanmate, so it's not spinning 100% all the time.

How easy was it to get that off?

[noinimod]

lol if he didn't mention anything about it in his original post, it couldn't have been that hard.

[Ch3ck5um]

Stage 3: 3.2Ghz 3Dmark Vantage

http://service.futuremark.com/home.action?resultId=586235&resultType=19

[Ch3ck5um]

lol if he didn't mention anything about it in his original post, it couldn't have been that hard.

I'd just rather not destroy the north bridge in the process :)

[Blacklash]

I've got the Evga up and running.

Same bridges, same cards, only difference is the mobo.

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=9197274

I haven't tuned a thing yet. 260s were @ 699|2300.

So far I've made 3.91GHz with turbo.

[Ch3ck5um]

Hmm... must have been a duff board?

[Ch3ck5um]

Finally got it finished :)

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showpost.php?p=3494163&postcount=318

[Blacklash]

There's 06 @ 1920x on my rig.

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=9200118

I just put my old 192SP GTX 260 in with the two 216s.

Here's my first try with Vantage in Tri-SLi, default bench settings-
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dmv=589907

image-
http://img118.imageshack.us/my.php?image=evgavantageiz7.jpg

[Ch3ck5um]

Woohoo 30k marks in Vantage very impressive!

[Blacklash]

I can get 4.0GHz on the EVGA.

http://img228.imageshack.us/my.php?image=40ghzqs9.jpg

New default 06 score 26030
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=9239842

Image-
http://img48.imageshack.us/my.php?image=newo6jh7.jpg

It did a little for my Vantage score.

I gained around 600 points. It's now P30732
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dmv=598308

It didn't do a thing for FC2 or Crysis though. Since it requires a full 1.45v to hold IMO not worth it considering I can do 3.91GHz on 1.33v. I might increase the voltage back to 1.35v and see how far I can go. 4.0GHz only seemed to have a good pay off in 06 @ default settings. If I was on watercooling I might feel differently.

[SF3D]

Blacklash- Please don't publish PhysX scores :( I was shocked to see 30K in performance preset, but it was not correct..

Good scores! :up:

[Ch3ck5um]

I can get 4.0GHz on the EVGA.

http://img228.imageshack.us/my.php?image=40ghzqs9.jpg

New default 06 score 26030
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=9239842

Image-
http://img48.imageshack.us/my.php?image=newo6jh7.jpg

It did a little for my Vantage score.

I gained around 600 points. It's now P30732
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dmv=598308

It didn't do a thing for FC2 or Crysis though. Since it requires a full 1.45v to hold IMO not worth it considering I can do 3.91GHz on 1.33v. I might increase the voltage back to 1.35v and see how far I can go. 4.0GHz only seemed to have a good pay off in 06 @ default settings. If I was on watercooling I might feel differently.

After having a good play with the memory and voltages the best I can get this Foxconn to do is 3.5ghz at 3.5v 175 / 20

Every time I get close to 180fsb it fails to even show the bios.

I dont think the renaissance is a good overclockers board so I have resorted to running it 3.2ghz default voltages which gives a good speed increase.

I was wondering if betting cooling on Northbridge would help but not really sure its worth modding.

[Blacklash]

I can run 189 x 21 1.36v or 193 x 21 1.45v. I think the former is a better choice on air.

[Ch3ck5um]

I can run 189 x 21 1.36v or 193 x 21 1.45v. I think the former is a better choice on air.

So you must be using Turbo mode for x21 multi?

Any ideas why im getting stuck at 180fsb?

Do you know what a safe top limit for cpu and vtt volts are?

[Lu(ky]

Hey guys I have a couple of question on the Foxconn Renaissance board compared to the Asus P6T Deluxe. I notice the Renaissance board only has 6 phase vs the P6T has 16 does this affect the OC of the board and memory?

[JokerCPoC]

I'd have preferred the NB heatsink on the prototype Renaissance motherboard, Over the speaker version any day.

[Ch3ck5um]

Hey guys I have a couple of question on the Foxconn Renaissance board compared to the Asus P6T Deluxe. I notice the Renaissance board only has 6 phase vs the P6T has 16 does this affect the OC of the board and memory?

I personally would not recommend this board for over clocking as it does not seem up to the job.

It may just be the flaky bios but mine wont go above 175 bclock.

[Ch3ck5um]

Well saying that I mean extreme overclocking, this does overclock but not as much as the competition.

It is however a good all rounder and hopefully once newer firmware is available it will become an even better performer!

I still think a heat sink / fan mod is needed to stabilise the north bridge.

[Ch3ck5um]

Well for the record the speaker "tat" on top of the northbridge heatsink takes quite a bit of prying off.

Its attached using some double sided sticky elastic tape goo but if you work around the edge of the heatsink with a flat screw driver you can ease it off without dismantling the heatsink assembly.

The northbridge heatsink does indeed work very well with some directed airflow.

[hyperdoggy]

Got mine to 3.7gig, which is the best i can do on default voltage. aside from the o/c speed, anyone notice this board's sound card sounds tiny? or not in full range compare to their old build?

[hoodlikegaza]

This seems like a decent choice if you ain't over clocking though...

[Ch3ck5um]

Got mine to 3.7gig, which is the best i can do on default voltage. aside from the o/c speed, anyone notice this board's sound card sounds tiny? or not in full range compare to their old build?

I haven't noticed any problems with the sound card.:shrug:

[Ch3ck5um]

This seems like a decent choice if you ain't over clocking though...

Yes its a well spec'd board one of 2 boards on the market that can do 4x single card crossfire.

[Ch3ck5um]

Using turbo mode got me to 3.7ghz

http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/1338/37lk3.gif

[ICEEXOL]

Hi. I want to ask all people who has Renaissance X58. I got the board and it is Fab. D. version so not the final version that is on sale.

My problem is VTT voltage seems to be too high. Vtt must be 1.1 volt and BIOS PC Health Status page shows 1.724 Volt! (BIOS version P02)

http://www.pckoloji.com/attachments/anakartlar/10491d1229721451-foxconn-renaissance-x58-anakart-32.jpg

Fox Central Control Unit section under BIOS has voltage settings. It says CPU VTT is default and 1.707 Volt.

http://www.pckoloji.com/attachments/anakartlar/10499d1229721451-foxconn-renaissance-x58-anakart-40.jpg

Then i loaded latest BIOS version P10 and now it shows 3.4 Volt! :eek:
BIOS and FOX ONE desktop software reports 3.4 Volt now. System works fine with Core i7 920 CPU and 2 x 1 GB A-Data DDR3-1600X.

But i am affraid CPU will fry. Can you check VTT voltage from BIOS / Fox One? Anyone has same problem? Is there possibility to find pins on mainboard to measure VTT with voltmeter?

Thanks in advance.

[Ch3ck5um]

Hi. I want to ask all people who has Renaissance X58. I got the board and it is Fab. D. version so not the final version that is on sale.

My problem is VTT voltage seems to be too high. Vtt must be 1.1 volt and BIOS PC Health Status page shows 1.724 Volt! (BIOS version P02)

http://www.pckoloji.com/attachments/anakartlar/10491d1229721451-foxconn-renaissance-x58-anakart-32.jpg

Fox Central Control Unit section under BIOS has voltage settings. It says CPU VTT is default and 1.707 Volt.

http://www.pckoloji.com/attachments/anakartlar/10499d1229721451-foxconn-renaissance-x58-anakart-40.jpg

Then i loaded latest BIOS version P10 and now it shows 3.4 Volt! :eek:
BIOS and FOX ONE desktop software reports 3.4 Volt now. System works fine with Core i7 920 CPU and 2 x 1 GB A-Data DDR3-1600X.

But i am affraid CPU will fry. Can you check VTT voltage from BIOS / Fox One? Anyone has same problem? Is there possibility to find pins on mainboard to measure VTT with voltmeter?

Thanks in advance.

Im using the default launch bios P07 and my VTT is indeed 1.1v

How did you manage to get a pre-release board? :clap:

[ICEEXOL]

It was sent for review to me and I was not able to do it because of this problem. So it seems VTT problem happens only to pre-release version.

I wish I could measure VTT with a device. I cant find readpoints for VTT.

[Ch3ck5um]

Read points VTT: http://www.xtremesystems.org/Forums/showpost.php?p=3330582&postcount=48

[ICEEXOL]

Thanks a lot! I just checked C39-C40 points with digital voltmeter and reading is 1.17 - 1.20 Volt. So now i believe VTT voltage is fine and problem is sensor or BIOS based. Thanks one more time.

[Razer(x)]

Is it possible to get a 920 @4ghz?

[ICEEXOL]

Mostly yes base clock 200 mhz and with multiplier 20.

[methimpikehoses]

Anyone have updates on this board? Are most getting up to 4ghz with the 920?

[breathemetal]

Anyone take the "Speaker" off of it yet? lol

This is the one thing that turns me off of buying this board.

[George_o/c]

Does this board got the potential for 4GHz+ with an i7 920 ?

[saaya]

It was sent for review to me and I was not able to do it because of this problem. So it seems VTT problem happens only to pre-release version.

I wish I could measure VTT with a device. I cant find readpoints for VTT.
VTT is beeing read wrong on pre release boards, why didnt you ask your foxconn contact about this? :confused:

Does this board got the potential for 4GHz+ with an i7 920 ?
i saw 2 or 3 people achieve 220 bclock screenshots and i think they ran 4ghz stable with a 920, but i dont remember if it was on air, sorry...

but with recent 920s 4ghz on air doesnt seem to be a problem at all, and the board can run 200bclock+, so yeah, it should work fine.

[Degenerate83]

Hi all

was recently given this board by foxconn to test and to go into my new companies water cooled custom pc The GT500 (work log over at bit tech http://forums.bit-tech.net/showthread.php?t=160848 ) one thing we've been trying to find water blocks to fit the vrm and n/b bridge but keep seeming to hit a rather large brick wall. ek water blocks dont fit, danger den or what ever we have seem to try, i am now at a loss as this build was meant to be complete for the latest iseries in a few weeks. any1 know of a solution or some1 who can make custom blocks on a very low budget??

cheers

[Ch3ck5um]

I am very interested in finding chipset and mosfet blocks also :)

[Ch3ck5um]

Does anyone have any good tips for this board?

I had another go at overclocking my c0 chip and the best compromise I could get was 170 bclk + Turbo 3.6ghz @ default voltage.

It would be great if other users posted their settings so we could compare results.

[Ch3ck5um]

There must be more people out there with this board?

[nascasho]

There must be more people out there with this board?

I was wondering the same thing.