Foxconn Dreadnought 790i Ultra SLI (Retail version)

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Originally Posted by MikeMK

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

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Yes. This is promising motherboard.

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Originally Posted by dpa

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

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Let us know how it goes :up:

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Originally Posted by 7499richard

wicked...more please :)

This is gonna be my next board

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Coming later :up:

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Originally Posted by Hazaro

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

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

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Originally Posted by 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

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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.

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Originally Posted by Me1tDown

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).

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

http://www.aijaa.com/img/b/00174/2139353.jpg

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

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?

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Originally Posted by SF3D

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

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Thank you!

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Originally Posted by s0lid

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

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:rofl:

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Originally Posted by T_M

SF3D, are there measuring points for vCPU etc?

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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)

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

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 ?

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

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:

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

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Originally Posted by 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?

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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...

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/a...eeezy/118k.jpg

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

nice results!

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

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Originally Posted by T_M

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

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

Very nice result youngpro :).

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 :(

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

slap in some GTXs..? :D

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

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.

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

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Originally Posted by Lestat

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...

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+ 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.

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Originally Posted by LockBreaker

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

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Bumping this thing. :rolleyes:

Gotta know. Love Foxconn you see. :woot:

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Originally Posted by tiborrr

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

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I hate to quote myself but... Anyone?

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.

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!