FOXCONN 865M01-G-6ELS opinions needed

[virtuamike]

Thinking about building an Aria system. Would love to find a matx board that'll o/c. Anyone have actual experience with this one? I need to know if CPU:RAM ratio stays at 1:1, if PCI FSB locks, etc.

ocia review
newegg link

FYI 6ELS has VIA firewire, 6LS doesn't.

 

[virtuamike]

Anyone?

 

[virtuamike]

 

[o1die]

Try downloading the manual off their website. Chances are, if you can't find it, stay away from it. Foxconn is a huge supplier of parts to dell, but dell doesn't use their motherboards, last time I worked there. I recommend my msi 865pe neo LS. Most micro atx boards have fewer bios adjustments. I would switch to a regular atx case if possible if overclocking is a priority.

 

[virtuamike]

Checked the manual already. Says the same thing review does. You can adjust FSB but nothing else. Reviews have been saying that Foxconn is working on a new BIOS to allow voltage adjustments etc but I can't find BIOS version info on the webpage.

Currently running a 3.0C -> 3.4 on my IC7. It'd be a shame to lose that much speed just by switching to new case / mobo.

 

[CommandoCATS]

I got this, can't really figure out how to overclock my 1.6A. It seems to crap out a little over 100mhz FSB, so I guess the lock doesn't work.

 

[CommandoCATS]

as an update, I managed to get my 1.6 to 2.5Ghz right now. I did this with a number of CPU mods though (had to cut a pin, and also short some pins to increase the default vCore). I changed the default FSB on my 1.6A to 533mhz by cutting a BSEL pin, then I set the default voltage up to 1.7V with the "wire trick". The Foxconn mobo let me overclock to 2.5 from there (setting FSB to 157mhz seemed to be okay).

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=28&threadid=1359530&enterthread=y

my exploits documented.

 

[HFC]

Originally posted by: virtuamike
Checked the manual already.

The web site is www.foxconnchannel.com. I tried the logical wbe site of www.foxconn.com and that was really slow.