Hardware Foxconn Blood Rage

You gotta move forward with the times eventually..

 

Isnt the rampage II a 775 board? , is that a typo or have i missed something?

 

well if anything it sure is pretty but I would like to see that Pot in action

 

The Rampage Extreme was LGA775. R2E is LGA1366

 

Hmm... shame. This was one of the boards i was looking at for my next build. Was expecting better considering.

Bring on the EVGA Classified!

 

Thanks for the nice review.

One thing, I do not understand. A price of roughly $300 is pretty standard for a high-end board nowadays, including waterblocks, fans and whatnot is no standard at all. So, why a value of 7/10? Compared to the competitors, it looks to me the value is quite a bit better, no?

 

with only 3 memory slots mean no further upgrade possible, it's a vital flaw in the board's design decision. they've already driven away potential customers such as myself (if i were looking for x58).

 

Its a good point, why get rid of the 3 memory slots to save 'room' (or circuitry space, or heat emission or dT or dV or whatever) but then leave all the legacy features on? I guess they dont have the density of circuitry of the 3 mem slots or the power draw but its a little incongruous.

 

If you were thinking of getting a high end board like this you would spend extra and get a 6GB or a 12GB tri kit to start with, you wouldn't need to upgrade.

The board looks very nice. Foxconn are really tryinh hard to make themselves heard, I like that. They are a real contendor against all the big names around.

 

On the same train of thought though, how many LGA775 users are running all of their 4 slots? Many people still only populate two even though they could populate all four, and FOXCONN probably recognises this.

On another note, I'd kill to see this with Red Crucial Ballistix Tracer RAM, TRUE 120 Black Edition and either a 4870 or 4870X2.
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The only thing that's stopping me(if I had money) is that it's Single Card performance is Sub-par compared to the cheaper P6T.

 

memory is never enough. and it's very hard to find performance 12GBs at the moment. motherboards are supposed to be a base platform where one could keep upgrading until that socket goes out of date, i don't see x58 going out of date soon.

you'd be surprised to see, if given the choice, most people would go for the one with upgrade option. 6GB of RAM is even pushing the boundary to today's application, without upgrade path to 12GB or 24GB, this board is a fail.

 

6GB pushes today's application? What do you run? I find it hard pushed that MOST people, especially hardcore clockers and gamers use more than 6. If you're after a workstation board for HEAVY multi-tasking then absolutely you need 6 slots.

Given that Intel has updated stuff like VRMS etc even within a socket (LGA775 - 955x (dual core support),975x v.1 (crossfire) and v.2 (Core 2 support), and the 65-45nm transition too - I wouldn't be surprised if there was a change when 32nm Core i7s are released as well. Resell the X58s because mobo manuf. want to make money.

 

I'm going to assume it was because "£275.99 (inc. VAT)", which means its the same number of dollars and pounds. and I think we all know that they aren't equal.

 

Depends if you want to use the waterblock (and to a much much lesser extend, LN2 pot).

The bundle is fantastic (which adds to features) and the wb/pot are of very high quality so are a great addition, but are still to some extent of limited use when there are cheaper "extreme oc" boards that could cater to other people's needs as well. A 7 = worth considering in our score guide which we feel it is.