FOXConn Bloodrage X58

chawks2 · Dec 31, 2008

Have to say big fan of this board and awaiting some company. First off, the board is crazy sexy. 775 socket cooling is 100% ++++ IDLE 42. Here are some pics w/my Scythe etc. OC's to come.

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Look at the memory spacing here. These tall RAM no likey my Scythe
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mgoode · Dec 31, 2008

Thats one sweet looking board! The ram overclocking is supposed to be a beast. Looking forward to see how you make out with it.

rdrash · Dec 31, 2008

Foxconn was brilliant to include 775 mounting..... that may net them a few extra thousand sales alone. Looks like a very solidly performing board from the few guys I've seen playing with those. Not sure yet if I will grab one of these....still weighing the options atm.

Enjoy the new toy chawks2

... benches coming soon?

IOS&M · Dec 31, 2008

the mounting comes with the motherboard ? wow !
I didn't realize that - that's great news and good to know ...

chawks2 · Jan 1, 2009

I'm getting 28C IDLE AS 5 + w/Sycthe 775, benchies coming soon. Promise. :thup:

SuperDave1685 · Jan 1, 2009

wow, so this is an i7 board with 775 mounting holes? does that mean I could use my fuzion block on this board?

s002wjh · Jan 1, 2009

SuperDave1685 said:
wow, so this is an i7 board with 775 mounting holes? does that mean I could use my fuzion block on this board?

maybe, i heard some guy at xtremesystem.org said even though it has lga755 hole, but he still has to get a backplate for his gtx/gtz in order to fit it.

IOS&M · Jan 1, 2009

can someone (thread starter maybe) explain if it's really a 775 holes setup , or
a bracket that comes with the motherboard ?

chawks2 · Jan 1, 2009

Sorry guys, been dealing with some issues with drivers on this board. The SAS controller was kind of a pain to get going with WDS. It occupied my time too long, until I realized I had a Realtek driver conflict.

Additionally, the F6 disk utility provided does not properly create a driver disk. Worked that issue out with the old $OEM$\TEXTMODE trick.

K, back to the 775 bracket. I had no problem with my 775 mounting because my Scythe doesnt have a backplate. It may be difficult, NOT impossible to work around the 1366 bracket (about 1/8" tall). See below pic:

chawks2 · Jan 2, 2009

Here are some BIOS screenies. Still reading before I start cooking. Newest version of SETFSB is supposed to work, but I'm not having much success.

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OC profiles are a nice addition to this board. However, it would be nice to make up your own names for the OCs then the ones FOXCONN provides.
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Settings below are in a different section of the BIOS, "PC Health" - which is a bit of a bummer having to go back and forth between menus.
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chawks2 · Jan 3, 2009

Welp, I have to say I am experiencing strange issues on the SAS controller when oc'ing this board.

When changing the vcore, it loses my drives. Sometimes the Marvell controller comes back with CTL + ALT + DEL, but mostly the QF button sets it right.

Able to get 190 x 19 @ 920. 10.2 1M SPI

vCPU - 1.36 actual (+90)
vVTT - 1.20 actual (+100)
vIOH - 1.12 actual (Default)

Havent been able to get anything more stable. Still cooking..

-Blue- · Jan 4, 2009

board looks great, but the fact that it only has 3 RAM slots kills it for me

but a beautiful board, doesn't having both 1366 and the 775 mounting holes in there make it a little fragile? i get the feeling that if you tighten it a bit too hard it might break...

JonSimonzi · Jan 4, 2009

I agree, that is a beautiful looking motherboard.

chawks2 · Jan 4, 2009

The P6T has 775 mounting holes also. Not fragile at all, but I'm not using a backplate with my Scythe.

Charr · Jan 4, 2009

Can you set the ICH10R into AHCI/RAID with SAS drives attached?

chawks2 · Jan 4, 2009

Altho I can not confirm 100%, it appears the RAID set is disabled once another RAID set is available.

The following settings are the ONLY successful way to enable RAID/AHCI
on the ICH10 chipset:

SATA MODE = RAID/ACHI
ONBOARD IDE + eSATA chip = IDE/DISABLED
ONBOARD SAS CHIP = DISABLED

Once you enable the SAS ctrl with these settings, it appears to put everything on the JMICRON.

Maybe, future BIOS could possibly fix?

chawks2 · Jan 9, 2009

K guys here are some screens of CNM Everest, RAID perf on each controller, and stable OC on air.

explicit4u · Jan 11, 2009

i sitll prefer the ASUS Rampage II Extreme in both looks and performance, also the 4 PCIe slots are a complete waste as you can only really use 2 for dual slot graphics card set ups, so no option of tri-SLI/CF.

i like the North-bridge cooling options but common, an IDE socket, that's dead tech which no-one should be using. The 3 RAM slots also means no option for 12GB RAM as we have to wait for larger capacity modules because we only have a maximum of 2GB per stick meaning only 6GB RAM is possible for this board at the moment.

exe163 · Jan 21, 2009

Nice, can't wait to get my hands on mine.

chawks2 · Mar 26, 2009

Had some spare time, FINALLY, and was able to crack a hard egg. 215 BCLK+ here I come. sub-10s 1M on air. Temps are a bit high, but seriously considering a new project.

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