Foxconn BlackOps Intel X48 Only £79.99 Inc. VAT

I *was* but thats so I can have a physics card in my machine, since I can't I m keeping my rampage till death!
 
Well I have one of these up and running and it took me awhile to figure things out as I've always used Asus boards for S775, except for a brief stint with a DFI board.

I've finally managed to figure out how to clock the darned thing and have somehow got a 150MHz increase from my wolfdale compared to my old P5Q Deluxe, although I can't seem to get the FSB as high.

The DDR3 took ages for me to figure out as well...but I think I've got the hang of it. So far I'm pleased with the board although the NB cooling is dreadful but still effective (keeps around 52C with 60% fan).

I got this 2gb off the MM for 15 squids and am pleasantly surprised with the results.... however I was expecting a bit more bandwidth from DDR3?

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1. Old chipset
2. Unpopular chipset
-P45 was much cheaper and clocked slightly better
-X48's USP was 2 x 16x PCIe slots and current graphics cards don't really need more than 2 x 8x
- DDR3 only
3. It was overpriced to start off with.
4. It's a FoxConn - good luck getting RMA support once the initial retailer supported warranty period expires.

That said - as Gurusan has demonstrated, it's an awesome motherboard, especially with the new generation of ATI cards looking like they may be able to saturate 2 x 8x motherboards in CrossFireX.

It could be a very good buy if you have a known-good S775 CPU and are planning on going CrossFireX with the next ATI 5xx0 series cards in the near future.

Other than that, get a P55 or X58 board if you're starting from scratch.
 
It's definitely a good board, however if I had known P55 was going to be so cheap I would not have bothered!

Going to hold on to this until I can afford an i5 setup probably around Xmas.
 
I don't think i5 is cheap uless you got one of the super-discounted MSI boards. And you almost certainly can't use your current DDR3 because it's probably not 1.65V stuff.

I think a lot of people will regret going P55 when these new ATI graphics cards come out and start to show up the limitations of 2 x 8x slots.
 
Still got my board in the box as I couldn't sell it.

Tough board to clock as it's got some strange BIOS settings

The northbridge needs watercooling imho, but the standard top is very poor and causes corrosion. Thankfully the previous owner of my board got copper top for the northbridge:)
 
The bios settings are daunting at first but I've managed to get used to them.

Also the northbridge does need watercooling but the little stupid fan that comes with it is doing fine up to about 1.5V nb...currently using 1.438V for 480FSB. The fan at 55% is very tolerable and keeps temps low-mid 50s under load.
 
WJA96 said:
I don't think i5 is cheap uless you got one of the super-discounted MSI boards. And you almost certainly can't use your current DDR3 because it's probably not 1.65V stuff.

I think a lot of people will regret going P55 when these new ATI graphics cards come out and start to show up the limitations of 2 x 8x slots.
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Easy solution get the X2 version, that is if you really need the power of 2 5870's. I also believe that the X2 variants of ATi cards are basically the same as using 8x8x anyway

1156 is mainstream performance, majority of users will be using a single card.
 
Tom|Nbk said:
Easy solution get the X2 version, that is if you really need the power of 2 5870's.
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A Single GTX295 is restricted about 15% by a PCIe 2.0x slot clocked down to 8x already. An X2 5870 is highly likely to saturate an 8x slot.
 
I'm new to building PCs (always bought store built PCs which we all know are crap for anything other than word processing) and have bought this along with an Intel Core 2 Quad Q8400 LGA775 CPU. Have used components from my old gaming rig (such as hard drive, CD drive, case etc) along with an ATI Radeon 4870 1024mb Gcard.

Have yet to be able to boot my PC up using an OCZ 850 watt PSU as it keeps shutting itself down.

Like I said, I am very new to the whole "DIY PC" scene (I'm 24 so not too old to learn!) so if anyone could point out if I need either a bigger PSU or if I have the wrong sort of CPU would be appreciated.
 
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