Foxconn Black Ops - Raw, Unadulterated Power
by Rajinder Gill on July 30, 2008 11:00 PM EST- Posted in
- Motherboards
Specifications
| Foxconn Black Ops | |
| Market Segment | High-End/Extreme Benchmarking |
| CPU Interface | Socket T (Socket 775) |
| CPU Support | LGA775-based Core 2 Duo, Core 2 Extreme, or Core 2 Quad Recommended |
| Chipset | Intel X48 (MCH) Northbridge and ICH9R Southbridge |
| Front Side Bus Speeds | Auto, 100 ~ 900 in 1MHz increments |
| DDR3 Memory Speed | Auto, Nine Ratios dependent upon Strap Setting |
| FSB Strap | Auto, 200, 266, 333, 400 |
| PCIe Speeds | Auto, 100MHz - 255MHz |
| PCI Speeds | Synchronus or Lockable at 33.6MHz, 37.3MHz and 42MHz |
| Core Voltage | Auto, 0.825V to 1.60V in .00625 increments + Voltage Multiplier to 2.44V |
| CPU Clock Multiplier | 6x ~ 11x, downward adjustable for Core 2, upward to 31 for Extreme |
| DDR3 DRAM Voltage | Auto, 1.418V ~ 2.873V in .038V increments, 1.50V standard |
| DRAM Timing Control | Auto, Manual - 34 DRAM/Chipset Options (tCL, tRCD, tRP, tRAS, tRFC + 11 sub-timings) |
| DRAM Command Rate | Auto, 1T, 2T (mislabled - should be 1N and 2N) |
| NB Voltage | 1.156V ~ 2.395V in .045V increments, 1.25v standard |
| SB Voltage | 1.388V ~ 1.95V in .038V increments 1.05V standard |
| CPU VTT Voltage | 1.20V to 1.725V in .075V increments, 1.20V standard |
| CPU PLL Voltage | 1.395V to 2.446V in .33V increments, 1.5V standard |
| CPU Vdroop Compensation | Enabled, Disabled |
| CPU GTL | Individual Core Adjustments, Default, +31 or -31 steps in 1 step increments |
| NB Voltage Reference | Default, +31 or -31 steps in 1 step increments |
| Dram Pull Up, Down & Ref Voltage | Default, +31 or -31 steps in 1 step increments |
| CPU Clock Skew Control | 0-1500ps in 100ps increments |
| CPU Clock Amplitude Control | 700mv-1000mv in 100mv increments |
| Memory Slots | Four 240-pin DDR3 DIMM Slots Dual-Channel Configuration Regular Unbuffered DDR3 Memory to 8GB Total |
| Expansion Slots | 3 - PCIe 2.0 x16 (2 - x16, 1 - x4 electrical) 3 - PCI Slot 2.2 |
| Onboard SATA/RAID | 6 SATA 3Gbps Ports - ICH9R (RAID 0,1, 10, 5) 2 eSATA 3Gbps Port - JMicron JMB363 |
| Onboard IDE | 1 ATA133/100/66 Port (2 drives) |
| Onboard USB 2.0/IEEE-1394 | 12 USB 2.0 Ports - 6 I/O Panel - 6 via Headers 2 Firewire 400 Ports - 1 I/O Panel, 1 via Header |
| Onboard LAN | Dual Gigabit Lan |
| Onboard Audio | 7.1 Channel HDA Plug-In Audio Card |
| Power Connectors | ATX 24-pin, 8-pin ATX 12V |
| I/O Panel | 1 x PS/2 Keyboard 1X PS/2 Mouse 2 x eSATA 2 x SPDIF - Optical Out, Coaxial Out 1 x IEEE 1394 2 x RJ45 6 x USB 2.0/1.1 |
| Fan Headers | 6 - CPU, (5) Chassis |
| Fan Control | CPU and Chassis Fan Control via BIOS |
| BIOS Revision | G28 |
All manner of goodies are bundled with the Black Ops: a 120MM fan, a plastic dry ice cooling pot for the Northbridge, and a Plexiglas "benching table" for open-air use.
Software wise, we have the Aegis Panel, which allows on-the-fly FSB changes and adjustments for all primary voltage circuitry as well as monitoring and changing fan speeds for the processor, motherboard and Northbridge areas. We found the Aegis Panel quite useful for most situations, although when benchmarking at very high speed you'll probably find that Aegis Panel won't always open. In such situations, the use of SetFSB is advised.
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elfguy - Thursday, July 31, 2008 - link
I disagree. A company that gets called on a screwed up practice, and gets tons of bad press, will always try to justify itself and if they see potential profit loss, they will say whatever they can to calm things down. We still don't know for sure if it was intentional or not, we only have their word for it.If they had not been called on it, things would have stayed broken. Many companies do screwed up things, and the best thing we can do is show them that look, you go against your customers needs, and you will suffer for it, in the only way they care about, that is loss sales. So I say support your alternative OSes, boycott Foxconn.
AmberClad - Thursday, July 31, 2008 - link
Good luck on trying to boycott Foxconn. The vast majority of their business is not in retail motherboards -- it's in the manufacturing of game consoles, cell phones, and various electronic components. Any motherboard you buy from another manufacturer is more than likely going to have some Foxconn components in them.