Foxconn Quantum Force Black Ops X48 OC Guide (56k Warning)

[clone38]

£242 delivered in the UK

[Telo]

The body is made out of copper. Now, the top is of a black color and I do not want to scratch it to verify the material. I doubt they would say its copper and make out of aluminum instead.

One thing though, the extra barbs it comes with felt a little funny to me. They felt like plastic [not saying they are plastic], so i decided to remove the stock ones and use my leftover 3/8 D-Tek barbs, if they can be attached that is. As you might noticed, I've looked at it but I have not really messed with it.

The block is made out of copper, but the top is made out of anodized aluminum. The barbs are a little lite for my taste, so I removed them and went with the D-Tek barbs I had leftover.

If you don't have extra barbs or just don't mind using the ones provided, you need not do anything, the block is built with the gasket is already in place [the one you see in the accessories box is an extra].

[Telo]

I finally finished installing the board in my case. Currently testing the watercooling loop since it changed drastically [I had to remove my Koolance NB, SB, and VR blocks]. Which brings me to my current problem [stupid problem I may add, and if it is not supposed to be posted here I apologize in advanced!], I was taking some pictures of my work, when I realized, I haven't uploaded pictures in years and do not know how you guys get yours uploaded. With that said, could someone point me in the right direction so that I could upload my pictures? Thanks a bunch fellas, I have only dealt with you guys for just over a month, but I'm having a ball here.

[Telo]

I just tried booting up my PC for the first time with the BlackOps in it. No matter what I do, it just freezes when it hits Windows; and I'm not even overclocking it. I tried using just the defaults, then I tried using the default but change my RAM timing and voltage, nothing works so far.

[Lu(ky]

So far on my setup is working like a charm. I am using the G22 BETA BIOS and seems to be working fine at a 400FSB x 10 with my QX9650. Only thing I see is on CPUZ it shows a weird core voltage is at 0.920v? But in the BIOS I am at 1.375 vcore. Anyone know where I can double check this setting on the vcore?

Thanks

[loonym]

So far on my setup is working like a charm. I am using the G22 BETA BIOS and seems to be working fine at a 400FSB x 10 with my QX9650. Only thing I see is on CPUZ it shows a weird core voltage is at 0.920v? But in the BIOS I am at 1.375 vcore. Anyone know where I can double check this setting on the vcore?

Thanks

Sounds like speedstep is kicking in.

[Telo]

So far on my setup is working like a charm. I am using the G22 BETA BIOS and seems to be working fine at a 400FSB x 10 with my QX9650. Only thing I see is on CPUZ it shows a weird core voltage is at 0.920v? But in the BIOS I am at 1.375 vcore. Anyone know where I can double check this setting on the vcore?

Thanks

How did you get that Beta G22 BIOS? The lastest one on the site is G21.

[Lu(ky]

How did you get that Beta G22 BIOS? The lastest one on the site is G21.

I think I got it from the RETAIL BlackOps Thread. Someone added it there for us to use. I would link it but I can not find it now because I am unable to use my User CP I keep getting error messages. I will link it when I find it.. But so far 400x10 multi solid as a rock at a 1.375v. But I need to adjust some other setting in memory..

[eternal_fantasy]

I'm currently running my QX9650 at 450x9 Strap333 900Mhz RAM at 7-6-5-18 1t PerformanceLV6, ORTHOS blend stable BIOS G22

[Lu(ky]

I'm currently running my QX9650 at 450x9 Strap333 900Mhz RAM at 7-6-5-18 1t PerformanceLV6, ORTHOS blend stable BIOS G22

Question enternal_fantasy did you change the jumper pins on the board itself from AUTO/default to pin 9-10 to reach the FSB of 1800? Or was it in the bios itself?

[Telo]

I'm currently running my QX9650 at 450x9 Strap333 900Mhz RAM at 7-6-5-18 1t PerformanceLV6, ORTHOS blend stable BIOS G22

That is the second time someone mentions the G22 BIOS, where can I get it please?

[eternal_fantasy]

Question enternal_fantasy did you change the jumper pins on the board itself from AUTO/default to pin 9-10 to reach the FSB of 1800? Or was it in the bios itself?

I just left jumper on AUTO and set 1:4 333 in BIOS.

That is the second time someone mentions the G22 BIOS, where can I get it please?

Here is the link: http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...&postcount=203

Enjoy

[FuriousSalesman]

Which slots are people using for their memory? Is there a difference?

[Zaskar]

The block is made out of copper, but the top is made out of anodized aluminum. The barbs are a little lite for my taste, so I removed them and went with the D-Tek barbs I had leftover.

If you don't have extra barbs or just don't mind using the ones provided, you need not do anything, the block is built with the gasket is already in place [the one you see in the accessories box is an extra].

They go and make a solid copper block, and then ruin it by making the top cap from aluminum?

Thats really a shame.

[Telo]

I finally got it to boot into Windows with default settings without a hitch. Now, I need some help to get some OC'ing going please. I'm happy with getting to run at 400-450FSB with the RAM running at 1:2. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

[FuriousSalesman]

I can get my board to post at 4.0ghz and ram at 2000mhz but everything is unstable with bsod's at every turn. Is it because I am using a wolfdale?

[Telo]

I apologize in advanced if my frustration gets ahead of me.
But all I keep reading is that "once you undertand this board, there is no going back". Now my question is this, how can a person that is not used to this kind of BIOS get to "understand" it if the people that DO understand it do not provide more insight that the settings they are currently using? I mean, it is nice to see you can jack this board and run your QX9xxx CPU at over 5Ghz; but what about the people that don't have LN2 or a Phase Change setup and just want a lite overclock [compared to the results of the pros]?

Now, I'm not asking for someone to figure out the settings I need, all I want is for someone to point me in the right direction. I've tried the usual overclocking procedures, like raising the FSB 10Mhz at a time, but a mere 10Mhz raise stops this board from posting, even if I raise the voltage and dial in the required settings for the RAM. Even the crappy [my opinion] P5E3 Premium allowed me to be stable at 3.2Ghz without having to get to the point of throwing this whole system out the window and calling it the day.

[FuriousSalesman]

you asked for the G22 bios earlier in the thread, did you update to that bios?


I am not sure at what point my overclock becomes unstable. But I really want to run my ram at stock speed stable, which is 1866mhz, but is not possible.

There seems to be a difference between the engineering samples and the retail boards.

[eternal_fantasy]

I apologize in advanced if my frustration gets ahead of me.
But all I keep reading is that "once you undertand this board, there is no going back". Now my question is this, how can a person that is not used to this kind of BIOS get to "understand" it if the people that DO understand it do not provide more insight that the settings they are currently using? I mean, it is nice to see you can jack this board and run your QX9xxx CPU at over 5Ghz; but what about the people that don't have LN2 or a Phase Change setup and just want a lite overclock [compared to the results of the pros]?

Now, I'm not asking for someone to figure out the settings I need, all I want is for someone to point me in the right direction. I've tried the usual overclocking procedures, like raising the FSB 10Mhz at a time, but a mere 10Mhz raise stops this board from posting, even if I raise the voltage and dial in the required settings for the RAM. Even the crappy [my opinion] P5E3 Premium allowed me to be stable at 3.2Ghz without having to get to the point of throwing this whole system out the window and calling it the day.

Before BlackOps release - 4-5 Quantum Force Members posted results and praises pretty much every day of the week.

After BlackOps release - Occasional post, mainly about new BIOS and how great it was.

I guess they have now moved on to promote the Dreadnought... while we help ourselfs...


Anyway here are my settings for 450x9 on QX9650, 1800-7-6-5-18 1t
BIOS G22








Hope that helped.

[Telo]

Hope that helped.

You're the man my friend!

[Telo]

I have notice something about this board [at least specific to mine], if I change the RAM voltage to the one defined by the RAM's manufacturer, the system hangs. So, right now with the BIOS' default voltage [1.64v], I've been messing around and have gotten to 400FSB so far. I will keep pushing it to see what is the max FSB that I can get; more than likely I will stop at about 450FSB as that is all I'm after.

[ceevee]

This board has been the most frustrating experience I have ever had building a PC.

I am not going to go into how unstable this thing is, but basically this board is in a "beta" state imho.

[ceevee]

I have notice something about this board [at least specific to mine], if I change the RAM voltage to the one defined by the RAM's manufacturer, the system hangs. So, right now with the BIOS' default voltage [1.64v], I've been messing around and have gotten to 400FSB so far. I will keep pushing it to see what is the max FSB that I can get; more than likely I will stop at about 450FSB as that is all I'm after.

I had the same problem. I bought 8GB OCZ 1600Mhz RAM and got pissed when it would ONLY run at 1.64V and 1066Mhz.

So I assumed it was a RAM problem and RMAed the RAM back to Newegg.

I bought some very expensive 8GB Corsair Intel XMB SPD certiifed profile sticks at 1600Mhz 7-7-7-20.

I thought for sure these would work at the rated settings since the Foxconn board is advertised as supporting this XMB RAM out of the box.

Guess what? The board won't post now at all. I have tried 1 stick, I have tried 2 sticks, I have tried 4 sticks.

It won't post no matter what I do.

I replaced the power supply with a bigger 1000W unit and checked that there were NO grounding issues or shorts.

Guess what? The board still won't post.

Not only that but every time it doesn't post the board gives a different error code! And there is no list of what the error codes mean in any of the documentation or online.

I have always used ASUS boards for years now and am starting to think I made a huge mistake to listen to the XS hype about Blackops.

[Lu(ky]

Well I sold my QX9650 and a Q6600 SLACR GO yesterday on ebay. I bought a new e8400 wolfdale today. So now I will start OCing this cpu later tonight. Question though I still have this problem only on the CPUZ on the CORE VOLTAGE. See attached picture, also I checked everywhere in the BIOS to make sure things were enabled and disabled like the above pictures supplied from eternal_fantasy. Any ideas I would appreciate. Thanks

[Telo]

Well I sold my QX9650 and a Q6600 SLACR GO yesterday on ebay. I bought a new e8400 wolfdale today. So now I will start OCing this cpu later tonight. Question though I still have this problem only on the CPUZ on the CORE VOLTAGE. See attached picture, also I checked everywhere in the BIOS to make sure things were enabled and disabled like the above pictures supplied from eternal_fantasy. Any ideas I would appreciate. Thanks

This board droops like a mofo. And the vdroop compensation does not do jack about it. But, the Aegis panel shows the actual voltage and the BIOS voltage with a lite droop. I do not know if it is just a gimmick to say the compensation works, or if it in fact works and CPU-Z is just reading the wrong thing from this board.