Foxconn BlackOPS (Retail version)

[SmokeyTheBandit]

prob the same thing, I thought I saw everythig, but this puts a new spin on how f**** you can get, by buying "the best board"

Exactly, for this amount of € these boards should be tested from top to bottom ....
I never ever had a board that was doa, and i owned 4 in the last month .... but this is/was by far the most expensive board i ever bought.

[zbogorgon]

does anyone know what is this P05 bios, 7A3F1P05? does it fix anything ?

[bazx]

does anyone know what is this P05 bios, 7A3F1P05? does it fix anything ?

just flashed to PO5 and black ops booted up fine

[dMITIj]

any news on the P05 bios, 7A3F1P05?

[SmokeyTheBandit]

Got the board running with another power supply, a broken 8 pin motherboard connector was the reason it didn't boot.

I got the the board running for a very few hours because of this, but i tested a few biosses and for now my favorit is G28 seems more stable than P05 with my 4GB kit

[clone38]

Just put the G28 on myself now i have some testing to do.

[melanko]

Check this out:

Foxconn deliberately sabotaging their BIOS to destroy Linux ACPI

[raptor1]

Hi! All

For Anyone Thats Interested

http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=3366

Best Regards
flanr

[Slovnaft]

i just exchanged my giga- for blackops.
i really dont like gigabyte bios and i felt its clumsiness was inhibiting my potentially golden proc
it's already in the mail so there's nothing i can do now, but i've heard so much intensely mixed sentiment about this board and i feel that there's huge bias and overexaggaration on both sides.
i just want somebody's honest opinion, was ordering this board a mistake?

[Chris_redfield]

I wouldn't say it was a mistake. The sheer amount of BIOS options can just be confusing at first and as a result of more options, there is a lot more tweaking required in order to get a stable OC.

There were a few teething problems in the beginning that I think some people are having difficulty with in terms of memory compatibility. I was one of these people in the beginning, but luckily the G28 revision allows me to finally run my OCZ DDR3 at stock speeds. Which is great because it was dirt cheap memory that I don't have to replace.

I am not a seasoned OC'ing vet, but am reasonably competent. I got one of these boards a few days after they became available in the UK and with the early BIOS it took me almost an entire day to get a stable OC of about 3.4GHz. I was extremely dissapointed. However I stuck with it and continued to torture my E8400 finally able to get it to 3.7GHz. I assumed that it was the memory incompatibility holding me back and I was still dissapointed. However G28 came along and solved my problems. Well sort of. I have a duff early E8400 so can only push 3.87 out of it stable and I am pumping a hell of a lot of volts through it as it is a dissapointing early first batch.

I think with reflection that the board is a good board. I have spoken with another person in depth who also uses this motherboard, and they also suffered from the early memory incompatibility problems but I think they are also reasonably pleased with it now as well. I'm well happy with mine and wouldn't consider swapping it for any other model. The only complaint I have that Foxconn still haven't addressed is the ally top on the northbridge block.

Still, my last motherboard was a P5W DH Deluxe so the Black Ops isn't exactly facing any stiff competition when going after my heart.

[cadaveca]

My issue with the board is it not changing timings when I change them in bios, but I'm still working through the bioses. Otherwise it does exactly as it should, and feels damn fast after P45.

[Xello]

My issue with the board is it not changing timings when I change them in bios, but I'm still working through the bioses. Otherwise it does exactly as it should, and feels damn fast after P45.

Really? Have you tried G28?

[cadaveca]

Yeah, that's the plan for tonight. I've got many sticks of ram and there are many bioses, so I like to try each with each ram and see how the bioses progress. I'm pretty happy with what I have seen so far!

[Xello]

Good plan... I do believe all the memory issues were actually resolved (at least the ones raised in the other thread) so hopefully you will be sailing soon.

[cadaveca]

It's really nice to not have TM2 issues with some of my cpus as I was with pretty much every other board out there....you could really hurt some hardware with this thing!

[Slovnaft]

thanks, i feel better after that.
that's what i want out of a board, one where every last thing has to be tweaked and controlled by me.
but i gotta say, i'm impressed with this gigabyte board. now that i'm RMAing it i'm cranking volts with impunity, and i even got it to POST at 490 FSB.

[Slovnaft]

Just got the board last night. finished a graphics card mod, then popped it all it.
Uuummm, I know I don't entirely unterstand this board yet from the 30 minutes I spend with it before going to sleep, but in the litle voltage tweaking I did I could not get the cpuz reading of my voltage to break 1.0v I set cpu target voltage to 1.4 and cpuz read 0.88 idle and 0.95 at load. I could keep trying to up it, but I'm very wary about setting cpu voltage to 2+ in BIOS to achieve an actual of 1.3.
HELP.

[cadaveca]

Welcome to softwarerrors...you need a multimeter or use aegis panel for voltage measure, cpu-z does not work.

[Slovnaft]

oh god. well, I have both, but trust neither. i don't trust aegis because it's the board man.'s software, and my DMM is really old and I wouldn't be sure where to put it to measure CPU voltage.
so you're saying BIOS may be delivering reliable voltage, and yet it's still not booting me at higher clocks? that's an even scarier prospect. honestly, i couldve lived with being stuck at 3.2ghz and 0.8v, but if this board just can't take my q9450 to 3.8 like on my gigabyte board just cos it doesnt want to...?! is it the board that cpuz isnt compatible with? people with QX's seem to get reasonable voltage measurements in cpuz?

[cadaveca]

I acutally found that I get the exact some clocks..but you must be aware that most boards are overvolting cpuPLL and FSB volts, while this board seems not to, and hence it being held back. Also, you give up some FSB on this board for more efficient performance, so this must be taken into account too...because any real problem I had with other boards have been solved..TM2 and C1E works properly, and is properly disabled when you disable it...no other single board can do this that I have seen, mind you tihs only affects extreme clocking, and not 24-7 clocking...the inclusion of the bench table should have clued most inthat this board is meant for ebnching, and as such, you give up some reliability.

[Slovnaft]

so i could try increasing cpuPLL. FSB volts i find don't do much, at least in my clock range. i was just taken aback by the glaring warnings it gave with PLL, i wouldnt have expected this kind of board to be so consciencious about BIOS voltages.

[cadaveca]

There has to be warnings for those that do not know what they are doing. You CAN BREAK HARDWARE with this board, where other boards would not...turning off thermal throttle will kill ALOT of cpus...but for benching, this is really needed! 24/7 it's not!

[Xello]

CPU-z problem is a known one, Slovnaft, it doesn't report the voltage correctly. The voltage showing beside the "current voltage" field in the BIOS is correct.

[raptor1]

Hi! All

just back from i34 and was talking to the foxconn people there

the latest version of Aegis Panel is 1.0.2.32 http://www.quantum-force.net/downloa...Panel10232.zip and for the temp readings to work correctly you need bios version p05

p05 is bios version g28 + a few extra updates

it is available here http://www.foxconnchannel.com/support/downloads.aspx

i have flashed to p05 and have no issues with it - This is the bios they were using for the new E8600 and all their overclocking with LN2

best regards
flanr

[Xello]

Hi! All

just back from i34 and was talking to the foxconn people there

the latest version of Aegis Panel is 1.0.2.32 http://www.quantum-force.net/downloa...Panel10232.zip and for the temp readings to work correctly you need bios version p05

p05 is bios version g28 + a few extra updates

it is available here http://www.foxconnchannel.com/support/downloads.aspx

i have flashed to p05 and have no issues with it - This is the bios they were using for the new E8600 and all their overclocking with LN2

best regards
flanr

Hello, can you double check this information on P05? On the Foxliveupdate program, when i search for new bios it tells me i'm on the most up to date one (G28), when i tell it to search for new and old bios it finds P05, and lists it as an older bios.

Thanks.