Foxconn demos ‘LN2 ready’ mainboard at London event
Posted at: 3:38am 20th May 2008 by James Morris
BlackOps, Dreadnought and Destroyer martial forces at YOYOTech in London, Saturday May 24th. Plus discounts for CPC readers
When Foxconn launched its Quantum Force range of enthusiast
motherboards with the MARS, it delivered great overclocking potential but was
only based on Intel’s P35 chipset.
With the latest members of the Quantum Force, however, Foxconn hopes to cover
all bases with a a three-pronged attack.
Leading the assault is the BlackOps,
which Foxconn claims is the world’s first production motherboard to ship ‘LN2
ready’, making it ideal for the kind of intense treatment applied by the likes
of Benchtec UK.
The BlackOps is based on Intel’s X48 chipset, and is equipped with high-end
features like three 16x PCI Express 2.0 slots and support for dual-channel
1,600MHz DDR3 memory.
But if you fancy SLI graphics with your quad-core Intel CPU,
Foxconn has also released the Dreadnought, which is based on Nvidia’s 790i
Ultra SLI chipset instead. This also has a trio of 16x PCI Express 2.0 slots,
but with its Nvidia chipset these will support Tri-SLI configurations. AMD
enthusiasts can go for the Destroyer, with Nvidia’s 780a SLI chipset. You still
get the three PCI Express 16x slots, but with Socket AM2+ processor support
instead of Intel LGA775.
The new Foxconn Quantum Force range was developed with the
help of Singaporean uber-overclocker Shamino, part of the trio (along with
hipro5 and Kingpin) who pushed an Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9650 to 5.6GHz in
October 2007 for a record-breaking 29,061 in 3DMark 06. So hopefully a thing or
two about what overclockers need will have rubbed off.
To launch the new products, a special BlackOps day has been organised
at the Central London shop location of
YOYOTech.
Kicking off at 12pm on Saturday, May 24th, the event will have all
three of Foxconn’s new Quantum Force motherboards on show. Every Custom PC
reader attending will get a 5 per cent discount off any purchase they make on
the day, apart from CPUs. There will also be competitions run throughout the proceedings,
including for a complete brand-new PC and a Foxconn BlackOps motherboard.
It looks set to be a fun event for overclockers and hardware
enthusiasts. Just make sure you don’t confuse Quantum Force with Ultimate
Force. Ross Kemp will not be in attendance.
