Foxconn BloodRage Review & Testing Thread - Retail

[Trembledust]

Ok I think I mucked something up. lol. Recently had to rma my X2 vid card on the rig cause think she finally kicked the bucket. Tried it on another rig and yep she dead (RIP). Anywho I had the card and cpu WC'd with a triple rad but now since card is gone decided eh...lets WC the Northbridge for sh*ts and giggles. Now at the untimely death of the X2 I started using my back up 4870 on the rig with the stock NB heatsink. No problems. Booted up..was playing Fear 2 demo (btw...hot). Life was good. Next day I swapped the stock heatsink for the NB waterblock. Now I cant post. All lights come on the board but no post. Even error LCD display on board will not come on. Even funnier rig just stays on. No auto reboots or anything. Resat block. I used Arctic silver Mx-2 paste instead of paste that came with board though. I posted for about 5 seconds then rig shut down on me. Havent had a post since. I'm on back up rig now. I resat the block again, checked for leaks, etc. Everything checked out. Any suggestions on what it could be the cause Im a lil stumped. The psu seems fine. No shorts or power surges occured. I'm going to unplug the power and leave the plug out overnite to see if that has any effect. I really do like this board even though it doesnt seem to like me. lol. It is possible I "might" have gotten a bad board, bad processor or both. I am in the minority if this is the case cause most people I have read threads on seem to have no problems with this board at all if not minor problems that wouldnt effect overclocking and what not. And the overclocking science w/ these chips is not hard. It is actually simple. With Bench's settings I should of hit 4ghz no problem on this board. Maybe I did get a bad board, or chip cause I'm running out of explanatations on why I cant even hit 3.8 ghz on this set up.

Anyways if anyone has any ideas hit me up. Thanks again Bench, HDChopper, and Sayaa for your help.