Foxconn Bloodrage-Quantum Force- -X58- -Retail-

[saaya]

I always had CxE disabled

hmmmm odd... ill check if i can reproduce this and will ask the engineers to check if maybe the vdroop compensation setting doesnt work properly. your on p06?

Im not even pushing for DDR2000 lol, Im fine with DDR1600~1700. But yeah, my Uncore runs at 3.2 now, with a Blck of 210 it would run what, like 3.36Ghz. But it just refuses to, tried around 1.4VTT, 1.75Vdimm, just no way, C1 error.

did you play with other voltages too? what cpu clocks?

Set RAM multi to 6 but still C1, which pretty much makes the only suspect Uncore Now if RAM multi at 6 would be worth while but it ain't regarding latencies (DDR1260 with tCL6)

dont get what you mean, sorry... but yeah, seems to be uncore that doesnt work... hmmm
have you tried an even higher uncore multi? some dont work properly...

Weird thing is, my Uncore does 3.2Ghz with +100mV and 1.65Vdimm, but upto +300mV and upto 1.75Vdimm it just doesnt do it

mhhh tried more relaxed timings? some imcs dont seem to like tight timings...
and your keeping mem at low clocks and lax timings?
tried more vtt?

My CPU is at 4.2Ghz, 21x200. But I'd rather have 20x210 for the increased Uncore and RAM speeds, but whatever I do, no way. Sometimes it doesnt come up with a C1 error but simply BSOD's after POST or just before log on, even tried to increase Vcore a bit incase CPU likes more Volts with a higher Blck

hmmm well what the max vtt you tried? only +300 aka 1.4v?
thats probably around 1.35v real, so not really that much... and your cpu seems to need more vtt, its an older c0 right?

oh and rammsteiner, please lay off the smileys for a couple of days, i think im seeing an addiction developing there hehehe

Hi Gys,
maybe i am Blind or a retard but i d'hont see/have the option TURBO ALWAYS ON ??????? I just see ON or OFF ??? :-(
I use the PO6

theres cpu turbo and sytem turbo. sytem turbo enables the overclocking options, cpu turbo should have enabled disabled and always on.
maybe the option was removed by accident in p06? i actually didnt check, ill check tomorrow!

for those of you having problems flashing the bios, make sure you set the bios jumper to select either rom1 or rom2. otherwise you might flash rom2 while using rom1, which explains while after a sucessful flash you still dont see the bios you flashed

Firstly Saaya... can I say thanks for the fantastic support and feedback you are giving on this thread... it genuninely is very useful and helpful, and makes me pleased I went and bought a Foxconn for the first time

thanks

Secondly... im sure you will share my relief, that I got my board working again!!! You were right Saaya, a pin had been bent by the looks of it. Couldnt see it when it was in the case, and even when it was outside the case it took alot of staring blankly at the CPU socket to spot it.

Anyhow, with a small pin & magnifine glass I managed to bend it back into position and the board works fine. Ive changed CPU's soooo many times over the last few years and never done that... i guess its just a little reminder to myself be careful !

yeah 1366 lga pins seem to be more sensitive than 775, glad you could find the bent bin and set it straight again!

Well, since I got it working, I stuck the 920 back in, and followed some of your tips in recent posts, and now have it prime stable at 4.1ghz - and the 21 multi on P06 works great btw!

good to hear

Testing 4.2ghz right now!

nice!

Ok, so I just unboxed mine that I received today from Newegg. I have a few opening comments on just the packaging and what not.

The good:

1 - Beautiful package.
2 - Well packed, everything is neat and packed well enough no damage should occur.
3 - Plenty of accessories (except a few, see below).
4 - Very thick manual and nice quick start guide.
5 - The board looks gorgeous, breathtaking.
6 - Water block is heavy all copper, awesome.

The Bad or Hmmmms:

1 - Only comes with a dual SLI connector, no triple SLI connector in the box. I only mention this since my EVGA board did come with it and one of the benefits of this board is the quad PCIe slots.
2 - There are 5 SATA cables and only one SAS cable, just seems like you forgot two. The board has 6 SATA connectors, so I do not understand why only 5 and it has 2 SAS connectors, why only one. Either include them all or none, that's all I am saying.

Overall, this is just a friggin awesome board.

glad you liked it!
1- tri sli connector... well only very few people use it, and people might use different slot combinations since there are 4 slots... so we didnt want to spam everybody with tri sli connectors... but we should have included a long flexible sli bridge so people can setup tri sli if they wish to by using 1 long and 2 short bridges... thats true.

2- all sata and sas hdds i bought/got at work came with a cable... so again we didnt want to spam everybody with loads of things they dont use... we werent 100% sure if somebody maybe buys a whitebox sas or sata drive, or some vendor decides to sell them without a cable, thats why we included one sas and a couple sata cables.

i dont know about you guys, but i have a pile of cables from boards and cards that i never used and probably never will use... most people i know have a box full of those svideo, vga to dvi, usb and firewire slot frames, sli and xfire bridges in all lengths, shapes, colors and brands, floppy cables, pata cables, sata cables, molex to sata power cables, molex to vga power cables...

i just thought cutting it down a bit would reduce costs of the bundle a bit to make the board cheaper or have some other feature implemented on the board, and i dont want to sound like a hippie, but i really dont like the idea of contributing to stockpiles of plastic that never gets used and sooner or later gets burned... all to make a mainboard bundle look a little more complete...

if you really need more cables or connectors you can get them on ebay for 2$ or let me know and i can ship you a set. and we can change that in future boards, actually let me go and start a poll on how many connectors you want/need bundled with the board in the foxconn qf suggestion box section here on xs

thanks for the feedback!

Bloodrage come for me today. Can't wait to start doing some tests.

wow, thoe evga card come in red now too?
looks very sweet!

Lan Party would be awesome. Get Runmc to bring the LN2.

So I got the Blood Rage to replace my EVGA and the bios naming convention is somewhat different, can someone tell me what the 3 I have listed below are in the Bloodrage? Also, did I get the rest correct?

Thanks


EVGA - Blood Rage
Vcore - Vcore
CPU VTT - CPU VTT
CPU PLL - CPU PLL
QPI PLL - ??????
IOH Vcore - IOH Core
IOH/ICH I/O - ??????
ICH Vcore - ??????

there isnt really a qpi pll voltage, gigabyte called it that but its only referred to as vcca IOH 1.1v in the intel docs, so thats what we called it. it does help with high qpi/bclocks, but i dont think it actually is the qpi/bclock pll voltage.

ICH vcore is called ICH Core in BR, thats the sb voltage, and IOH/ICH I/O is called IOH VCCA 1.5v on BR i think.
IOH and ICH are connected via the DMI bus, which is essentially a 4x pciE 1.1 link, and that uses 1.5v.

what other voltage i should adjust other than vcore in order to get cpu stable?? does the pll etc matter? also any other setting i should know that need tweak. it seem the cpu pass prime95 but can never pass intel burn test. anyone try the intelburn test yet?

pll and ioh core and ioh 1.1 seem to help with high bclocks/qpi clocks and curiously sb voltages seem to help sometimes i heard, but i never saw it give any boost myself...

Whats the best bios for this board? I am running P06 and am having some trouble getting my Kingston HyperX DDR3-2000 kit stable at their rated speeds. I am coming from the EvGA board and they ran fine at ddr3-2000 so I know they can do it. Thanks.

3x1 or 3x2gb kit?
what vtt?