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Foxconn Flaming Blade Motherboard Review
Author: William West
Published: Monday, October 05, 2009
Benchmark Synthetic
System as it was tested
Foxconn Flaming Blade Intel X58 Chipset
Core i7 920 (2.66Ghz) 4 x 256KB L2, 8MB L3 Cache 4.8GT/s QPI
Custom Watercooler - DangerDen TDX-MC 1/2" hose
3x OCZ 6GB DDR3 (8-8-8-21)
Asus 4850 PCI Express
Seagate 7200.11 1TB SerialATA 7200RPM
LG 20x Super Multi GSA-H55L
BFG Tech 800w power supply
Window Vista SP1
Core i7 920 (2.66Ghz) 4 x 256KB L2, 8MB L3 Cache 4.8GT/s QPI
Custom Watercooler - DangerDen TDX-MC 1/2" hose
3x OCZ 6GB DDR3 (8-8-8-21)
Asus 4850 PCI Express
Seagate 7200.11 1TB SerialATA 7200RPM
LG 20x Super Multi GSA-H55L
BFG Tech 800w power supply
Window Vista SP1
Reference system
LanParty Jr X58-T3H6 Intel X58 Chipset
Core i7 920 (2.66Ghz) 4 x 256KB L2, 8MB L3 Cache 4.8GT/s QPI
Custom Watercooler - DangerDen TDX-MC 1/2" hose
3x G.SKILL PI Black 6GB DDR3 (8-8-8-21)
VisionTek 3870 PCI Express
Western Digital Raptor X 150GB SerialATA 10000RPM
LG 20x Super Multi GSA-H55L
Hiper HPU-4S730 730w power supply
Window Vista SP1
Core i7 920 (2.66Ghz) 4 x 256KB L2, 8MB L3 Cache 4.8GT/s QPI
Custom Watercooler - DangerDen TDX-MC 1/2" hose
3x G.SKILL PI Black 6GB DDR3 (8-8-8-21)
VisionTek 3870 PCI Express
Western Digital Raptor X 150GB SerialATA 10000RPM
LG 20x Super Multi GSA-H55L
Hiper HPU-4S730 730w power supply
Window Vista SP1
Reference System
EVGA X58 LE Intel X58 Chipset
Core i7 920 (2.66Ghz) 4 x 256KB L2, 8MB L3 Cache 4.8GT/s QPI
Custom Watercooler - DangerDen TDX-MC 1/2" hose
3x G.SKILL PI Black 6GB DDR3 (8-8-8-21)
VisionTek 3870 PCI Express
Western Digital Raptor X 150GB SerialATA 10000RPM
LG 20x Super Multi GSA-H55L
Hiper HPU-4S730 730w power supply
Window Vista SP1
Core i7 920 (2.66Ghz) 4 x 256KB L2, 8MB L3 Cache 4.8GT/s QPI
Custom Watercooler - DangerDen TDX-MC 1/2" hose
3x G.SKILL PI Black 6GB DDR3 (8-8-8-21)
VisionTek 3870 PCI Express
Western Digital Raptor X 150GB SerialATA 10000RPM
LG 20x Super Multi GSA-H55L
Hiper HPU-4S730 730w power supply
Window Vista SP1
Reference System
Foxconn Quantum Force BloodRage X58 Intel X58 Chipset
Core i7 920 (2.66Ghz) 4 x 256KB L2, 8MB L3 Cache 4.8GT/s QPI
Custom Watercooler – Thermalright XWB-01 1/2” hose
3x G.SKILL PI Black 6GB DDR3 (8-8-8-21)
VisionTek 3870 PCI Express
Western Digital Raptor X 150GB SerialATA 10000RPM
LG 20x Super Multi GSA-H55L
Hiper HPU-4S730 730w power supply
Window Vista SP1
Core i7 920 (2.66Ghz) 4 x 256KB L2, 8MB L3 Cache 4.8GT/s QPI
Custom Watercooler – Thermalright XWB-01 1/2” hose
3x G.SKILL PI Black 6GB DDR3 (8-8-8-21)
VisionTek 3870 PCI Express
Western Digital Raptor X 150GB SerialATA 10000RPM
LG 20x Super Multi GSA-H55L
Hiper HPU-4S730 730w power supply
Window Vista SP1
SiSoft Sandra
Sandra is a software collection of synthetic benchmarks that will give us a basic idea as to what a system is capable of. It should be noted that SiSoft numbers change depending on what version you have installed; these were recorded using Sandra Professional Business Version 2009.1.15.42
Synthetic Conclusion
Synthetic performance never really tells the entire story but is a good benchmark of what the system "could" do under the right conditions.
The Flaming Blade does show that it is able to hang with the other boards and even overpower them ever so slightly. This did not come out of the box this way though. The Flaming Blade refuses to set the XMP profile of the ram correctly. So some tweaking had to be doneto the ram setting in order to get this to work out properly.
The Flaming Blade does show that it is able to hang with the other boards and even overpower them ever so slightly. This did not come out of the box this way though. The Flaming Blade refuses to set the XMP profile of the ram correctly. So some tweaking had to be doneto the ram setting in order to get this to work out properly.
