Foxconn Renaissance X58 Digital Life Motherboard
Test Setup and Overclocking
Published: 8th February 2009 | Source: Foxconn | Price: £249.99 |
To ensure that all reviews on Overclock3D are fair, consistent and unbiased, a standard set of hardware and software is used whenever possible during the comparative testing of two or more products. The configuration used in this review can be seen below:
Processor: Intel Core i7 920 (2.66Ghz) and overclocked to 3.75Ghz
Motherboard: Foxconn Renaissance Digital Life Motherboard
Memory: 3GB Corsair Dominator @ 9-9-9-24 1866Mhz
Graphics Card: ATI Radeon 4870 512mb
Power Supply: Silverstone Strider
CPU Cooling: Stock Intel Cooling
Hard Disk: Hitachi Deskstar 7K160 7200rpm 80GB
Graphics Drivers: ATI Catalyst 8.12
Operating System: Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate SP1
Motherboard: Foxconn Renaissance Digital Life Motherboard
Memory: 3GB Corsair Dominator @ 9-9-9-24 1866Mhz
Graphics Card: ATI Radeon 4870 512mb
Power Supply: Silverstone Strider
CPU Cooling: Stock Intel Cooling
Hard Disk: Hitachi Deskstar 7K160 7200rpm 80GB
Graphics Drivers: ATI Catalyst 8.12
Operating System: Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate SP1
During the testing of the setup above, special care was taken to ensure that the BIOS settings used matched whenever possible. A fresh install of Windows Vista was also used before the benchmarking began, with a full defrag of the hard drive once all the drivers and software were installed, preventing any possible performance issues due to leftover drivers from the previous motherboard installations. For the 3DMark and gaming tests a single card configuration was used.
To guarantee a broad range of results, the following benchmark utilities were used:
Synthetic CPU & Memory Subsystem
• Sisoft Sandra 2009
• Lavalys Everest 4.6
• Super Pi 1m, 8m and 32m
File Compression & Encoding
• 7-Zip File Compression
• River Past ViMark
Disk I/O Performance
• HDTach 3.0.4.0
• Sisoft Sandra 2009
3D / Rendering Benchmarks
• Cinebench 10
• 3DMark 05
• 3DMark 06
3D Games
• Crysis
• Company of Heroes
• ET:Quake wars
You may notice that 3DMark Vantage results were omitted from the benchmarks above. This is because 3DMark Vantage refused to run past the second test without crashing to the desktop with an id3d10device::createpixelshader failed error. A subsequent reinstall of the OS, drivers and patches failed to produce a clean run. My apologies for the lack of Vantage results.
Overclocking
Overclocking on the Foxconn Renaissance was quite an enjoyable experience. Although the Foxconn Renaissance isn't able to match it with the fully fledged overclocking motherboards from the likes of Gigabyte, ASUS and DFI, it did provide a respectable overclock and increase in performance over stock settings. While I was able to happily boot into Windows Vista at 3.85Ghz, the most stable overclock that I was able to maintain 24/7 was 3.75Ghz.
Most Recent Comments
I was waiting for the review of this. 
Awesome looking board and the northbridge looks epic.
Awesome looking board and the northbridge looks epic.
Not a bad looking board. That heatsink is strangeness personified though. Why produce a board that is unlikely to handle the huge heatsinks most people use? Very odd choice.
Like the colour scheme though. As those who've seen my profile can attest lol.
Quite a steep price for such an average overclock. The Bloodrage is only 30 quid more.
Like the colour scheme though. As those who've seen my profile can attest lol.
Quite a steep price for such an average overclock. The Bloodrage is only 30 quid more.
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Originally Posted by name='VonBlade'
Not a bad looking board. That heatsink is strangeness personified though. Why produce a board that is unlikely to handle the huge heatsinks most people use? Very odd choice.
Like the colour scheme though. As those who've seen my profile can attest lol. Quite a steep price for such an average overclock. The Bloodrage is only 30 quid more. |
24GB anyone?
Nice review m8.
Couple of questions for you:
The CPU-Z screeny shows 1.216v. Was this max Vcore you used?
What was the Vdrop/droop like?
Couple of questions for you:
The CPU-Z screeny shows 1.216v. Was this max Vcore you used?
What was the Vdrop/droop like?
Thanks all for comments so far 
@ webbo: Nah voltage was set at 1.4v in BIOS mate.
@ webbo: Nah voltage was set at 1.4v in BIOS mate.
Good job on the review Matthew
I would however have the Bloodrage over this any day..
I would however have the Bloodrage over this any day..
Horses for courses I think. The bloodrage is targeted to a different audience (hardcore benchers) whereas the renaissance is more a workstation based platform.
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