Foxconn Renaissance X58 Digital Life -Retail- (Core i7, Nehalem)

[saaya]

OK so first question.
WTF is that THING on the NB?!
...it looks like a .... speaker??

... it wasnt my idear and i recommended them to change it as soon as i saw it.

heheh so that you will be like this when u use it:



Saaya will understand that joke
Nice pics SF3D!

i still havent figured out who that guy is supposed to be, who made that drawing anyways, zenno? :P

so this board...doubles as...a....boombox?

guys, it's clearly more than meets the eye.
I would even say it's a ROBOT IN DISGUISE

its actually the first board of our new transformer series!
it can transform from a mainboard into a boombox with 5 simple steps

speaker???

that was my first thought as well - which socket revision is this slated to be?? and have they finished the debate on if x58 will be CF only or include SLI ??

possible I'm behind the times....
great looking board - thanks for the preview

what do you mean with socket revision?
x58 will be xfire only, but you can send some boards to nvidia to certify that sli works on them, then you gotta pay a one-time fee and then a fee for every board sold afaik.

As for which boards will be CF, which will be SLI and which ones will be both (if that's possible!?), will be dependent on licensing agreements and what features the manufacturers choose to enable i believe. For example, for a board to support SLI, even without the nForce200 chips, it will have to go through NVIDIA's SLI qualification process and this obviously costs money so could still continue to see the lower end of the multi-GPU market dominated by CF setups.

both is possible, if you certify for SLI you can still use xfire. and xfire works fine even when you use nf200 chips, so in any case, if it supports sli, it support xfire as well. the only exception beeing nvidias own chipsets

I heard the speaker is for the board to talk to you, ie tell you off for putting too much vmch etc

yes, itll beg for mercy if you turn up the volts too high

I tested those ram yesterday , and i get 2000mhz 7-6-5-15 32M stable for 2.1v on 4 sticks.

what board? pretty impressive for 4 sticks! how about 2 sticks?

I love the board, but the cooling makes the whole thing look like a cheap hi-fi.

: / i forwarded your feedback, thats all i can do unfortunately...

layout seems perfect, except the NB cooler, i don't like it, saaya be creative but not that much
BUT... if they focus on "digital life / digital home" support and looking, i can smell some quantum force x58 in the future, am i wrong?

hey, i didnt design that heatsink! :P

I can't exactly explain this but the aesthetics of the mobo are fantastic. The digital life series are aimed at the more upper mainstream end [similar pricing to the deluxe range in ASUS] but have always looked bland and come with a stupidly high price. Hopefully this board will be at a reasonable price and oc fairly well. Some Quantum Force features would be great.

thanks for the feedback, i forwarded it to the digital life team

Mainstream with SAS?
The Quantum Force board will use the same deep black pcb?

why not? and yes, BloodRage will be black pcb too