New BIOS makes new speed-FOXCONN MARS achieve Quad Core FSB 511MHz and DDRII 1350

New BIOS makes new speed-FOXCONN MARS achieve Quad Core FSB 511MHz and DDRII 1350

MARS is FOXCONN1st board for own brand
Few days ago, I have reported all + and – of MARS
During this period, more and more markets have MARS boards

After updating to 11/15 BIOS, some function is enhanced
Just quick note for the update

FOXCONN MARS P35 board




New BIOS correct the fault for CPU cannot adjust the voltage than default voltage



CPU:INTEL Core 2 Extreme QX6800
MB: FOXCONN MARS P35
DRAM:CORSAIR Dominator TWIN2X2048-8888C4D
VGA:ELSA 8800GT 512M
HD:Seagate 7200.10 320G
POWER:Corsair VX450W Power Supply
Cooler:Thermaltake V1


In the previous test, using the same QX6800 and the FSB was around 470Mhz
It’s similar to the other 1st tier boards 470~485Mhz

Quad Core FSB
After updating, CPU FSB 500Mhz 4X SUPER PI 32M achieved


Extreme FSB is 511Mhz 1X SUPER PI 32M


This speed is over most P35 boards in the market

In DRAM
422X9=>3797Mhz
DDRII 1350 CL5 5-4-9
SUPER PI 1M&EVEREST Memory bandwidth


Excellent speed with DDRII module in Intel chipset

In 3D
400X9=>3600Mhz
DDRII 1200 CL4 4-4-9
ELSA 8800GT OC 670/1933

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Although MARS P35 is the 1st FOXCONN own branded board
However, it’s completed matured board to compete with the others
CPU voltage is only one of the minuses of the board.
In packing, material usage, software, BIOS and OC are all good
Let’s expecting the forthcoming MARS new board.

This looks very interesting...


What is the highest Voltage option it goes up to, and how high much can it actually pump in to the cpu?

Are there any other faults of the board?

How is vDroop, and is there any option like Asus's voltage damper?

Very interesting w/ that over 500FSB on quads. I'd like to see my 8x multi quad see 4GHz!

Any pics of the I/O ports?

Looks like good placement of Sata ports and Clear CMOS/battery.

David_N said:

This looks very interesting...


What is the highest Voltage option it goes up to, and how high much can it actually pump in to the cpu?

Are there any other faults of the board?

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Intel Chipset New Force - FOXCONN MARS – The Warrior God

CPU Voltage only goes up to about 1.6v, but I'm confused by the voltage multiplier. Does that mean if I set it to like 1.1 multiplier on 1.6v, I end up with 1.76v?


This looks great, I may be picking one up as my next mobo since I'ma little sick of ABIT and ASUS.


Great review by the way

Anybody else tried this board? Just curious if it gives good FSB results w/ quads.