Foxconn Bloodrage... something wrong with it?

[TotalLamer]

I never see ANY i7 builds using this bit of kit... kind of suprises me, if only due to the sexiness factor. Any particular reason?

 

[o1die]

Foxconn and asrock have tried to establish themselves in the enthusiast market, but most folks will stick with names like asus and gigabyte. I use asrock boards, and they work ok. Bit many will pay a little more for names they trust. The lesser brands also have fewer bios updates and less info on their websites.

 

[Infrnl]

I have a Bloodrage; its been great so far and you can find decent support on XS. I do know it doesnt like cheap ram; even cl9 1.5. G-skill or supertalent, that I am aware of. you will get stuck at Bclock of 180

 

[WT]

The Blood Rage and the Gigabyte UD5 are on my short list of boards to build around, and I keep waiting for someone to recommend or use it for a build. I admit that support for a board is not a priority, so this seems like the #1 reason why most builders are ignoring it, but I will risk it and try it for my build.

I'd love to hear from more Blood Rage owners on their recommended RAM/HSF and hardware setups. I have a Zerotherm Nirvana NV120 on my Q6700, and I just heard there was an i7 mount available for the CPU.

 

[sgrinavi]

Foxconn Blood Rage - If Looks Could Kill (UPDATE)

It only supports 6GB of RAM, probably not an issue for most, but I would skip it for that reason alone.

 

[TotalLamer]

Originally posted by: sgrinavi
Foxconn Blood Rage - If Looks Could Kill (UPDATE)

It only supports 6GB of RAM, probably not an issue for most, but I would skip it for that reason alone.

You run a lot of Virtual Machines I take it?

 

[sgrinavi]

Originally posted by: TotalLamer

Originally posted by: sgrinavi
Foxconn Blood Rage - If Looks Could Kill (UPDATE)

It only supports 6GB of RAM, probably not an issue for most, but I would skip it for that reason alone.

You run a lot of Virtual Machines I take it?

AutoCAD and 3dsMAX will eat all the RAM you can give them.


Hardforums did a review of the BloodRage -- no so good...

I don't like this board. I don't know how I can sum it up any better than that. Normally I'd write here and make some comment about how the board's minor issues and overclocking can all be improved with a BIOS update. At this time there are a ton of BIOS revisions out there and I've read a wide variety of experiences concerning many of them so this goes without saying. Overclocking and the SAS controller issues certainly can improve with new BIOS revisions. However the things I hate about this board simply can't be fixed with a BIOS update.


The expansion slot layout makes very little sense. Sure if you only run one GPU and few expansion cards I'm sure it will be fine but I can't excuse the slot configuration for any reason because it flat out doesn't have to be this way. Worse yet is that the board claims 3-Way SLI support which is laughable at best.

or how about

I not only don?t like the BloodRage motherboard, I hate it and hope to never have to ever use it again. The BloodRage was problematic from the moment I opened the box and got a huge metal splinter stuck into my finger from the machined logo on the LN2 cup that was not deburred or cleaned up.

 

[PUN]

I am a huge fan of ASRock MB...They are subsidies of ASUS.
The only reason I went with Asus P6T is because ASRock LGA1333 Deluxe was out of stock from newegg.

 

[Piper8708]

i have one just got it a few weeks ago, and i have Corsair XMS3 6gb, and i was gettign BSOD Page Fault in non Paged Area, so i ran memtest crashed it twice ran all my sticks single and they pass, if i pair them up or go all 3 it crashes everytime, so im leaning towards a memory socket issue, but im not quite sure yet, any info would be great, ill check back here or my email is piper_87_08@hotmail.com , thanks in advance

 

[sgrinavi]

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