Foxconn Black Ops is one of the most extreme motherboards we’ve ever encountered, clearly emphasized by the fact that you get a pot for cooling the chipset with liquid nitrogen in the box. Over at Anandtech they’ve published a review of the board that focuses on the overclocking capabilities of the board. It doesn’t take long before they realize that Foxconn has indeed put a lot of effort into this board. Their Core 2 Extreme QX9650 is wPrime stable at frequencies above 5.4GHz.
They tried pushing the RAM together with the front side bus and was able to hit 537MHz. Due to time constraints they had to stop and move on to other tests before really determine what was the bottleneck. With the processor clocked at 5.4GHz and a severely overclocked GeForce GTX 280 resulted in a quite respectable 3DMark score.
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Foxconn Black Ops is still a rare sight in stores, but the price tag is expected to excel anything we’ve seen before, much thanks to the extensive accessory package. The review confirms much of what we’ve seen around the web, that this indeed a motherboard with potential.
After speaking to Rajinder he sent over a couple of pictures of the setup and shared some information about the cascades.
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The two cascades were built by Littledevil and hold up to 300W load at -104°C. One of each was strapped to the CPU and the GPU. According to Rajinder the GPU unit could use some calibration, but to push the graphics card further he might need some even more extreme cooling. Next up is the Rampage Extreme…
