black ops

ard-tullaich · 24 Mar 2011 at 19:08

My mates brother trying to sell me his foxconn black ops board x48 chipset is it any good.

powelly · 24 Mar 2011 at 19:55

what is your cpu?

ard-tullaich · 24 Mar 2011 at 20:56

Q9450

Surveyor · 24 Mar 2011 at 23:23

Reviews:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/2579

http://www.overclock3d.net/reviews/cpu_mainboard/foxconn_blackops_x48_motherboard/1

http://hwt.dk/literaturedetails.aspx?TeaserID=9338

cmndr_andi · 24 Mar 2011 at 23:33

May I ask how much he is asking for it and what board have you currently got?

setter · 24 Mar 2011 at 23:39

Pretty good board, useful if you ever intend to go to a crossfire gpu setup. However, they dont clock 45nm cpu's such as the q9450 as well as a p45 chipset board will do. Good p45's such as the asus p5q series can be had from £50-80.00 ono.

ard-tullaich · 26 Mar 2011 at 23:11

the board is a gigabyte p35c ds3r. Great board but need dual pci-ex 16. The board is a doddle to overclock.

gurusan · 27 Mar 2011 at 00:00

Very good board but keeping the NB cool is really difficult unless you have watercooling.

ard-tullaich · 27 Mar 2011 at 00:08

northbridge still on passive cooling in an antec 300 case with side fan and 2 70cfm fans at the front.. All i had to do to overclock the q9450 to 3.6 was give the fsb 450 lock ram to 3 ratio and set the cpu volts 1.28 and the usual disable functions.