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

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Here are two more pictures, and such as the air pressure is created more on sides of the fan, and I have plenty of dissipating surface on the sides of NB block, it should be fine, though your idea makes sense and I will definitely try it. It will not look as good as it looks now though, anyway "Temperatur über alles"

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lol the ramsinks on the nb heatsink

I'm having the same problem with OCZ... maybe foxconn need to test OCZ memory with this board?

i will once ocz sends us a kit

Also, am I running my SATA hard drives at IDE speeds? In the bios there is an option for IDE, RAID and something else (which I forget right now). Its set to IDE.. does this mean I am running at IDE speeds, or is this just a term now used for not running under RAID when connecting SATA drives?

no, this setting has nothing to do with the speed the hdd is running at.

Thankyou LardArse so much. I had no clue and would never have checked that. It doesnt throttle now that its set to performance. I had no idea Windows could even do that. I've already appologized to my MB, many times...I hope it believes me.

so after all, the board isnt to blame at all for thise, right?

As far as the NB voltage goes, when do you think I will be getting in the danger zone. I have read that a NB starts to get flakey and could possibly be damaged when the temp goes over 45c, tho I am not sure if that is true or not.

where did you read this garbage?
intels very own x48 board uses a small passive alu heatsink and even at stock the chipset gets hotter than 45 celsius :P

I have attached the current CPUz readout for you to see. What is confusing me is the sticker on the memory says 7-7-7@1.9V, yet CPUz says 1.5V. Right now I have no choice but to believe CPUz because it will not post if I raise the DRAM voltage to any setting above 1.686V. It just beeps for about 10 or 15 sec and then recovers the bios so it will post again. Can you please push me in the right direction?

1. cpuz doesnt read the memory voltage! thats the voltage programmed in the SPD!!!
2. your memory doesnt boot with more vdimm because the chips/pcb dont like it. thats a big problem with double sided ddr3 sticks, the pcb needs to be really good, and even then theres a lot of crosstalk and the signaling is far from perfect... as a result double sided sticks dont nearly clock as well as single sided sticks and cant run as high voltages.

How was windows throttling your CPU, I dont understand? Also, the memory is being undervolted by the motherboard, same as mine. OCZ performance memory runs at 1.85v and over, whereas this silly motherboard wont let it run at its basic voltage, which is the most stupid thing I have ever heard of.

just what exactly makes you call this stupid?
the cpu driver throttling the cpu to save power and the problems it causes when ocing is one of the most basic things there is to know about ocing :P

Go look around for any thread about X48 boards, OCZ RAM is not much supported. I had issues with it on my old P5E3 Premium, it ran at 1600Mhz but that was it. On my BlackOps I can run them at 1333Mhz, but no more than that. My advise, get rid of them if you can afford to get Corsair Dominators or CellShocks. I paid just over $500.00 for 2 sets of 2GB DDR3-1800 [OCZ3P18002GK], got rid of them for $400.00 even, and I do not regret selling them [even with the $100.00 loss]. The cellShocks I bought with that money [even though it was just 2GB kit] are not giving me any issue whatsoever man; I can run them at higher frequencies and tighter timings if I want with just a tiny bump on the voltage.

i worked for cellshock before joining foxconn and set the binning speeds and precudures, so i take this as a compliment, thank you
i dont want to say anything bad about ocz, but there have been a lot of compatibility problems from what ive heard. thats mostly due to the 2gb sticks requiring a lot of tweaking and running way different on one board compared to another. so its not really ocs fault, they probably didnt notice that the sticks varied that much from one board to the next.

Live and Learn I guess.....

well i wish it would be like that, but this thread looks a lot like "BASH until somebody teaches you or fixes the problems for you" to me...

Memory is my biggest weak point. I am hoping someone here will help me figure out what to do so at least it will post. My biggest frustration with it right now is if I raise my DRAM voltage at all, it totally freaks out and wont post at all.

and still you blame the motherboard and not the memory, right? have you tried one stick individually?

OCZ is not garbage ram, they are one of the Big Boys when it comes to ram and IMHO put out a very nice product. Makes one wonder WHY would a MB nowadays not even support ram from one of the top 5 Ram companies. Just absolutely makes no sense to me at all.

so let me get this straight, this memory is giving you a really hard time, its 1600 rated but you cant even get it to 1333, but still you consider it a very nice product... and you base this on what? im not even saying that the mem is crap, but how can you be so sure the ocz mem is great and bash the motherboard this bad?

the problem is most likely related to tweaking the clockskew and dll settings and the amount of memory your using. im sure the mem is fine, and so is the board.

guys, calm down and STOP BASHING THE BOARD!
Most of the things you guys complain about are not related to the board at all and are actually something you can solve yourself spending a couple of minutes with your good ol pal and doing some research.
Im really shocked by some peoples attitudes here... blame it all on the board and bash it like theres no tomorrow when the problem doesnt even have anything to do with the board.

Now the board DOES have bugs and problems like EVERY piece of hardware out there, can we please focus on the REAL problems and fixing them? Please let me know what exactly isnt working or what you need help with and ill do my best. but for the love of god, please calm down and stop bashing the board.