CES Preview Tidbit

[giorgioprimo]

so excited about those preview

[Shocker003]

I presume you guys are all joking. If i ever lay my hands on this lovely mobo, the first thing i did do is to get rid of all those horrible looking pipes and waterblocks. Damn they look like a nightmare. Moreover how does these unknown blocks preform Dudes pls. voice out your hearts and thots

[Movieman]

My old Supermicro SC850 cube case has 10 slots..designed for a 13x17"SWTX board(quad cpu)..1998 technology to the rescue!

[T_M]

Very interesting Peter, got me wondering

[D4rkn3ss]

I presume you guys are all joking. If i ever lay my hands on this lovely mobo, the first thing i did do is to get rid of all those horrible looking pipes and waterblocks. Damn they look like a nightmare. Moreover how does these unknown blocks preform Dudes pls. voice out your hearts and thots

indeed looks bad, like a prototype or sort, I seriously doubt the final version will be like this but it's a cool idea

[CrayS-per4m]

I don't know about you guys, but i wanna know about this first motherboard, maybe the record breaking new quantum force motherboard i've been hearing about?? I want it so bad to hook up some nice R680's to it.... Any new info on these? When are they being showed at CES? What chipset X38 or X48? ANYTHING?!?! lol I love these quantum force boards nothing like them

[Zytek_Fan]

If anyone saw the Fudzilla news on this, I popped them an email about not citing their source when it was clear they ripped it off from here

[gdogg]

I'll take one of those when ever it retails. Quadfire

[Monkeywoman]

quadfire for what? each lane is reduced to 8x!! pointless if they arent at full bandwidth.

[Zytek_Fan]

quadfire for what? each lane is reduced to 8x!! pointless if they arent at full bandwidth.

Be even worse than that if something is in the PCI-e x1 slots.

ATi cards run fine with CF at x8 x8 though

[gdogg]

quadfire for what? each lane is reduced to 8x!! pointless if they arent at full bandwidth.

Not true, 3dmark06 can barely see the diff from asus commando to asus maximus formula for x-fire.

Games like team fortress 2, I am sure I got a nice improvement, but as long as its not 4X, I am sure even a hd2900xt will get a nice 3dmark score.

[Trouffman]

Still waiting tomorrow to see this monster IRL !

Do you want more better sized pics ? (Don't blame me Sham )

I've made a little analys of pics and Information I've about this board on Syndrome-OC's Web :

Look & Cooling


hybrid cooling







BIOS :

Original text from : Syndrome-OC - Auto-translated
(I don't want to create "another" thread cause pics are from Shamino no me )

[jooke]CES is announced in France -> proof
[/joke]

Enjoy

[doompc]

LOL!!

[T_M]

w.r.t the first mobo, i'm in love with teh CPU socket area, and the massive clearance and cleanliness in general.
The BIOS shots above look fantastic - finally someone making sense of the miriad of setting available with pointers on what affect different components!

[Monkeywoman]

Not true, 3dmark06 can barely see the diff from asus commando to asus maximus formula for x-fire.

Games like team fortress 2, I am sure I got a nice improvement, but as long as its not 4X, I am sure even a hd2900xt will get a nice 3dmark score.

ORLY? put 4..no 2 R680s and run 3dmark06 at 8x and then at 16x. the amout of bandwidth would choke the cards, if 8x didnt make a difference then ATI would have used a 16x bridge on the R680 instead of a 32 lane bridge. if some one is buying a mobo that big, they arent going cheap on the gfx cards.

[gdogg]

ORLY? put 4..no 2 R680s and run 3dmark06 at 8x and then at 16x. the amout of bandwidth would choke the cards, if 8x didnt make a difference then ATI would have used a 16x bridge on the R680 instead of a 32 lane bridge. if some one is buying a mobo that big, they arent going cheap on the gfx cards.

Ok, now this is just silly.

I am talking from experience, and 3dmark06 scores right now. I had the asus commando (16x4x), and I now have the asus maximus formula (16x16x), I don't see how their can be any argument over my point.

and I am talking r600, the more bandwidth hungy ones.

Afaik, the dual gpu ones, don't support quad cards and octofire. But being as they don't exist retail yet, guessing at what they'll need is pointless.

[LardArse]

Some pics from first day:



Typical Water rig on Foxconn Quantum Force X48 Black Ops Motherboard:






Not so typical Cascade cooled CPU and Dry Ice Cooled Northbridge X48. The men for the day, Chris and Cpt Planet!

[LardArse]

Tell Jake to msg me during the show. I hope everything goes as planned for you guys, he brought tons of cooling stuff with him.

just you?? he';s been messaging to and fro throughout the whole show heheh

[LardArse]

Here you can find a 10 Slot Chassis :

http://www.caseking.de/shop/catalog/...ath=29_94_1486

Mhm, the two 24pin ATX Connectors, will an redundant PSU Setup work or is it only for more power?

plug in primary one as per normal, if you need to run a smaller psu for video cards plug into secondary, turns on and off at same time

[LardArse]

that thing will never see production.
tho id like to see nb temp with tek enhanced wc.
chunky tube mosfet cooling.
looks sort of convincing

trifire or tri sli? + physx?
?
?

10c below water temp, thereabouts, sealed neoprene

[LardArse]

I really do not like how those barbs are on the outside of the case. Doesn't make any sense imo. Tubing is inside the case, so water goes outside, into the mobo barbs, back inside to cool chipsets, etc.

for sure, prototype #1

[Zytek_Fan]

How did you like setting up that Stacker for WCing?


The new board is gonna pwn

[LardArse]

How did you like setting up that Stacker for WCing?


The new board is gonna pwn

It was hell, I hate cases, any type

[Zytek_Fan]

It was hell, I hate cases, any type

Oh come on, you gotta like those gigantic Lian-Li's


Is Foxconn's booth a bit of a low key deal?

[Trouffman]

Hotel Room style \o/