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Printed On: | May 10, 2008, 3:19 am |
| Category: | Chipsets & Motherboards | |
| Type: | Reviews | |
| Posted By: | yantronic | |
| Date Posted: | March 27, 2008, 11:55 am |
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Mystery Guest
One morning we walked into our rats'-nest-of-a-test-lab and found a motherboard popping out of the waste bin that hadn't been cleared in a day (not much rubbish, just empty coffee cans and cups, more emoty coffee cans and cups, and heatsink compound laced tissue).
Now who in the name of Shamino could leave a motherboard propped in a dustbin? How absolutely blasphemous! At the very least, the culprit could have done us TweakTown courtesy by writing a message along the lines of "we know who you are, you don't need to know who we are, just enjoy the board." Freaky, it was. Hardware being hardware, still gets the utmost attention from the Eccentric Editorial Elves @ VR-Zone.
Rare and rather lengendary.
Nothing less than a X48.
Connectivity options.
Storage expansion.
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Chipsets Explored
Broadcom Dual-LAN.
TI Firewire.
JMB storage.
Fintek GPIO.
PWM controller.
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Overclocking Help
Multi-BIOS.
Ceramic noise snubbers!
Power switch.
Reset, and CMOS Reset switches.
Onboard diagnostics.
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Satisfying Tweaks
CPU power with additional solid PWM capacitors.
Just about solid capacitors everywhere else.
Special tweaks, more voodoo than you can believe.
Question remains when the Foxconn BlackOps will hit YOUR shores as the de-facto Intel Overclocking platform. Will you see it now in your bin? Will it pop by end-April? It's a question with no definite answer. BlackOps is a brainchild of Quantum Force, which has gotten so hardcore under the leadership of Overclocking Evangelist Shamino that it seems to have factioned from the mainstream Channel.
When will mystery-man bring us hardware next time around? We don't know, for we feel just as threatened as the guys at TT. Maybe more so, because this one, has the Force.
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