Foxconn and its Quantum Force program has given birth to some of the most extreme motherboards we’ve ever seen, and this has forced other motherboard manufacturers, ASUS, MSI and Gigabyte especially, to show that they are in no way worse. We recently reported about the ASUS P5Q3 Deluxe from ASUS, which sports 16-phase power supply for the CPU, three more phases for the northbridge and another three for the memory. This board was based on the Intel P45 chipset, and so is the Avenger motherboard from Foxconn.
Foxconn Quantum Force Avenger is an extreme motherboard, even though the power supply is actually weaker than with P5Q3 Deluxe. Avenger has 8 phases for the CPU and two for the memory. It does have some other features though, which are quite ingenious.
First there’s the clearly marked voltage measure points, seen above. Clip-on and height-adjustable fan which cools both northbridge and memory. A flexible temperature sensor for the memory, which makes it possible to monitor memory temperatures in the BIOS (below). Last but not least, the motherboard ships with a 5.25″ panel.
The panel shows information about your system, but can also be used to save and load profiles. The profiles sets both voltage and frequency and you can jump between them on-the-fly. It’s connected to the motherboard and works on the hardware level, I.e. no drivers required and it works with any operating system.
Both PCIe x16 slots have full bandwidth, even though P45 only has 16 lanes in total for the graphics, but that’s because Foxconn has added a bridge chip to the board. Each PCIe x16 slot gets 16 lanes between the bridge and then there are 16 lanes between the bridge and the northbridge.
