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Here are the great news :D - Foxconn Quantum Force is back with X79:
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Lucky enough, we have spotted a great looking black and red themed board in one of the darkest rooms within COMPUTEX and this somehow rekindles our memories back to the days of first black and red board from Foxconn Quantum Force series : BloodRage.
That looks the mutts nuts, WANT..!!! :slobber:
Interesting memory socket placement...equally split on the sides of the cpu...
Is that HPTX or something? lol. Really wide...
Makes sense trace length wise. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by felix_w
Where do I sign up for one? :D
Yeap, i thought so...now the mb manuals won't say "put the memory dimm's to the sockets closest to the cpu socket"...;)
Told you they were busy :D.
Very similar design principals to the Bloodrage, looks damn sexy too. Surprised it only needs a single 8 pin EPS and no auxiliary pcie power for quad sli though.
Wonder what all those SAS ports are powered from? Does x79 southbridge offer native SAS or a 3rd party chip perhaps?
Itll be interesting to find out how the pcie lanes split out too. That top 4x slot is VERY handy as well - means you dont have to waste a pcie 16x slot on a 4x device (ie raid/network card).
Looks to be E-ATX too so case compatibility shouldnt be too much of an issue either.
Roll on Q4... :up:
Looking forward to designs with DIMMs all around the socket! :rofl:Quote:
Originally Posted by felix_w
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hope to have my board soon
will have fun breaking this board lol
nice power circuit..weird its not dual 8pin eps
why is it weird
who say you need to have two 8pins
Aw.. I feel my bank account is going to loose some bucks. :D Thats looking really good.. Very interesting layout, that amount of SAS could feed even small server. Does it have a name?
Did you? :DQuote:
Originally Posted by PiLsY
Native X79, up to 8 SAS ports :):Quote:
Originally Posted by PiLsY
http://www.techpowerup.com/img/11-03-30/193a.jpg
Because of the quad independent memory channels, each with own 64-bit memory controller in the cpu. So, that's the optimal placement for wiring - shortest lead lengths and simpliest paths :). And the best memory overclock, maybe :D.Quote:
Originally Posted by felix_w
The PWM design is similar on BloodRAGE - 14x35W (max) hybrid. It seems one 8-pin EPS is quite enough :).Quote:
Originally Posted by Hondacity
:)Thanks God, Finally FOXCONN ditch and got rid of the silly IDE connections :)
Did IDE kick your dog? What's with the crusade?
Actually it would be better with IDE and floppy connector. Nothing against but reverse compatibility is good thing.
One more photo from thread here:
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Foxconn Quantum Force X79 New Version Pictured
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Having first made waves at this year's Computex, it's time for Foxconn's premium socket LGA2011 motherboard, the Quantum Force X79, to get down to business. The channel brand of the OEM giant is gearing up for a Q4 2011 launch, and seems to have made some notable changes to the design we saw in June, on its latest engineering sample. These changes include rearrangement of expansion slots, a finalized design for the heatsink over the X79 chipset, and a slight rearrangement of the front-panel header area. While this is still an engineering sample, there is some progress - for better or worse - as the final release revision takes shape.
Well that's gone backwards in terms of the expansion slots - not impressed there.
My reasoning being I want to use 2 pcie 16x slots for sli graphics, 4x slot for my network card and the pci slot for my xonar d2. I can't see any combination there that's possible without either hitting my psu at the bottom of the board or blocking a required slot. What's that about? Original (bloodrage style) expansion slot layout was way better imo.
Maybe the most important thing is future bios support, because with Rattler you see - very good hardware and one or two bios versions with nothing interesting to talk about :).
I was really enjoying the slot configuration on the pictures in the first post. The revised version, mid way down, I do not like the slot configuration. That alone will make me look elsewhere.
Am I also missing the extra molex plug on the motherboard that is needed?
Looks good, but question is, if it can match BloodRage..
Why 3 bios chip?
two bios chips and one chip for all the firmware
Looks like ASUS is the only manu using 8 dimms in all boards
I think that 8 slots are bit useless. Today we can have 4x8GB .. do we really need more? Even when Im doing quite a lot PS work, I would probably never needed more than 4x4 .. and I have just 3x2! :D Plus as I remember 6 slots for X58, it needed quite a lot of juice to keep it stable. I doubt 8 slots will be different.
If the QF LGA 2011 board (it sill has no name, right?) is able to provide strong memory overclock at tight timings (like BloodRAGE do), 4 ram slots are fairly enough :).
My thoughts exactly. They should name it simply BloodRage II. They could even establish BloodRage line-up as trademark for best mobo from them. ASUS is doing that similar way.. And BloodRage is kinda catchy. Tho unfortunately Foxconn marketing sux, and QF is almost like it doesnt exist..
The board design is far away from BloodRAGE style and brilliance, although again in black-red scheme. It is similar to Rattler, so the name possibly will be something like that. And BloodRAGE will remain "The One and Only" :D :D.
ps. The Foxconn marketing is not good enough, but more important will be the bios support, as mentioned above.
It's already official on Foxconn site:
Quantum Force series presents the next generation, X79 Based Motherboard --- Quantumian 1
http://www.foxconnchannel.com/UserFi...79A01+Logo.jpg
Just nice name :D:D.
Quantumian.. well, could be worse. :D Im more curious about performance..
I'm disappointed with the weak heatsinks on the vrm area and the southbridge area. The looks are weak and the size is weak. Competitors have really nice beefy heatsinks on these areas.
And with 2 less ram spots, I'm sure your engineers could've widened out the cpu socket area and added a larger heatsink on vrm moseft area. This looks like a low-end board.
And no auxiliary connectors for cpu or pcie. SB heatsink is pathetic. No word on how pcie lanes split either.
Im currently deciding between the UD5 and the Intel board. Probably go UD5.
Big heatsinks, sometimes with small high-RPM fans - they are not a good solution. Small fans are huge noise makers and X79 PCH itself is not hot, so the huge heatsinks/fans there are unnecessary. About the VRM area - it's ideal design to put there 3rd party waterblock (and on PCH too, but as mentioned, it's not needed). It's extremely easy to remove the stock cooling on that board, not the same on the competitors' boards :).Quote:
Originally Posted by homefry
Nowadays noone from Foxconn/Quantum Force is reading/writing here. Lord Trident was the last of mohicans. We are all alone :D.Quote:
Originally Posted by homefry
The same is on BR - not a problem, I've used BR with 4 one-slot HD5770 - it's still alive.Quote:
Originally Posted by PiLsY
UD5 is better, Intel Silar has some restrictions. And UD7 is better also.Quote:
Originally Posted by PiLsY
Im restricted to those two choices as I need a pci slot :). No way im ditching my soundcard!
Yeah im not totally convinced in the need for auxiliary pcie, but cpu definitely. These new chips pull epic wattage over 5ghz. On multirail PSU's the extra connectors can definitely be worthwhile.
From what I saw the intel board didnt do great with pcie lane division and also doesnt offer ddr sqews for running with 8 dimms. Other than that it looked sweet. The UD5 seems to tick every box however, but the one review Ive seen has said it doesnt clock cpu as well as the other boards out. However that is Vortez who probably had to rtfm just to stick the ram in so taking that with a pinch of salt is advised.
Either way ill be waiting til around xmas/new year time so there's plenhty of time yet for me to change my mind :).
Already discussed the pci case on another forum :) and there is another solution - something like that:Quote:
Originally Posted by PiLsY
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The converter backplane should be removed and the soundcard will stand higher - with one long M3 screw to fix it. On UD7, for example :).
Wouldnt be able to plug in my mic or spdif :). And I also wouldnt have that monstrosity in my build :D. Point taken though - where theres a will theres a way :lol:.
Here is a link to the Quantumian1 website; the manual was recently uploaded:
http://www.foxconnchannel.com/produc...D=en-us0000556
Just an idea, it's ulgy, but we all know that the pci slot is outdated today :).Quote:
Originally Posted by PiLsY
And on the downloads' section it says SERIES: Socket 1155 - they should fix it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Beriphent
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all people around!
Even few in number, there are still some Foxconn Quantum Force overclockers and fans :).
Cheers and good luck :)!
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ps. We are still waiting to see that brand new LGA 2011 Quantumian 1 board in flesh, blood and action (metal, plastic and overclock :D). And not forget to mention - the price is always important too :D.
Seven $260-$320 X79 Express Motherboards, Reviewed
Quantumian 1 among the seven.
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First Quantumian-1 price on the Internet:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/FOXCONN-QUAN...-/220945832121
Any Quantumian-1 stock somewhere in EU?