Foxconn Black Ops - Raw, Unadulterated Power

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• Etern205 - Saturday, August 2, 2008 - link

  For those who wonder who is this Shamino person check out VR-Zone
  and for those with those Asus ROG boards in the motherboard disc there is a overclocking video with him in it.
  
  

• at80eighty - Saturday, August 2, 2008 - link

  threadjack a hardware thread about Linux?
  
  get some sunlight! :p

• sprockkets - Thursday, July 31, 2008 - link

  Every foxconn board I've had either dies or is poorly made in software. My AMD nForce4 board could not shut down properly every so often, couldn't keep the correct time, and other things.
  
  Doesn't mean this board is bad hardware wise. But, if so many of their boards cannot keep the right time or report the right settings, that shows poor BIOS programming. Not wasting my money on the big generic OEM maker.

• BPB - Thursday, July 31, 2008 - link

  Only 6 SATA and 2 eSATA is not enough. I want at least 8 SATA for a board like this, then start talking eSATA.

• strikeback03 - Thursday, July 31, 2008 - link

  ICH10R only supports 6 SATA, so not like you could have more than 6 drives in a RAID array anyway. If you really need more drives than that, why not a card?

• NicePants42 - Thursday, July 31, 2008 - link

  [quote]The water-cooling top plate is anodized aluminum. Contrary to "popular belief", the chances of galvanic corrosion with this setup are miniscule and there should be no cause for concern. Galvanic corrosion can take years to manifest, and a suitable additive in some distilled de-ionized water should provide ample protection.[/quote]
  
  I appreciate that the author was astute enough to include specific information about the material of the top plate, however, the reader is left to his/her own assumptions regarding the material of the water block itself - sure, it looks like copper, but so did the cooling solution on the popular ABIT IP35-Pro.
  
  I also find the author's defense of anodized aluminum out of place; if we are to assume (as the article seems to suggest) that only the top plate is made from aluminum, while the rest of the block is made from copper, it seems that the use of aluminum is indefensible, regardless of how technically correct the author's assertions on galvanic corrosion may be. Why, after spending all the money on high quality components, gobs of included 'extreme benchmarking' extras, and a large copper cooling solution, would the designers decide that they couldn't afford the extra dollar for a copper top plate, but would rather introduce the possibility (however remote) of slowly destroying any attached liquid cooling solution?
  
  Galvanic corrosion can take years to manifest? For how many years have people been paying over $120 for PA120.3s? Or $40 for MCW60s? Or $75 for a D5 Vario, etc? I, for one, would think that the author would better serve his readers by questioning the use of potentially harmful materials, (especially when the use of such materials appears to be unjustified) rather than presuming to dictate the reader's priorities concerning such.

• iop3u2 - Thursday, July 31, 2008 - link

  I was waiting for a foxconn ad the last few days and you sure as hell didn't disappoint me.

• tayhimself - Thursday, July 31, 2008 - link

  Who needs a $500 Mobo? I am really confused as to the people buying this stuff.

• NicePants42 - Thursday, July 31, 2008 - link

  It generally helps to check Newegg before posting about price.
  
  Considering that many current X48 motherboards are selling between $250 and $300, $330 after MIR is hardly unreasonable for this board.

• DigitalFreak - Thursday, July 31, 2008 - link

  "extreme benchmarking"
  
  ROFLMAO! What a bunch of losers