More information about the Foxconn F1 prototype

HardwareSecrets post some detailed infomation about the crazy Foxconn F1 prototype mobo. The data and pics are all taken from CES 2008.

The mobo is based on a new Intel Chipset, HS guesses maybe it is a P45. The copper thing you see on the board is not some ordinary cooling system, it is a water cooled system, and under the chipset waterblock it even have a thermoelectric cooler based on Peltier effect!(there is two wires go under the chipset waterblock. that should prove it.)

The full spec:

Foxconn F1 motherboard prototype main features are:

  • Socket: 775.
  • Chipset: Intel P45 (not confirmed)
  • Super I/O: ITE IT8720F
  • Parallel IDE: One ATA-133 port controlled by a JMicron JMB363 chip.
  • Serial IDE: Six SATA-300 ports controlled by the south bridge chip and two eSATA ports controlled by a JMicron JMB363 chip.
  • USB: 12 USB 2.0 ports (six soldered on the motherboard and six available thru I/O brackets).
  • Firewire (IEEE 1394a): Two ports controlled by Texas Instruments TSB43AB22A chip, one soldered on the motherboard and one available thru an I/O bracket.
  • On-board audio: No.
  • On-board video: No.
  • On-board LAN: Two Gigabit Ethernet ports, one controlled by the chipset together with a Broadcom chips to make the physical layer interface and the other controlled by a Broadcom BCM5788 chip (connected to the PCI bus).
  • Buzzer: Yes.
  • Power supply: EPS12V.
  • Slots: Four PCI Express x16 slots, Four PCI Express x1 slots and two PCI slots, supporting CrossFire and CrossFireX.
  • Memory: Four DDR-DIMM sockets.
  • Extra features: Aluminum solid capacitors, ferrite coils, POST diagnostics display, water-cooling system (which cools down the north bridge chip, the south bridge chip and the voltage regulator transistors), thermoelectric cooler (“Peltier”) on the north bridge chip and on-board switches for power, reset and clear CMOS.

3 Responses to “More information about the Foxconn F1 prototype”

  1. psolord Says:

    Does anyone know if it matters how you connect two 3870s? I mean i saw the picture above and i noticed that the first two cards (the ones closer to the cpu) are connected by the second connector (the ones closer to the cards fan). Then No2 and No3 are connected with the first connector etc. If they where connected the other way around would that matter?

    Also when having only two 3870s to play with, does it matter if you connect them using the first or the second connector?

  2. Egor Says:

    psolord
    If in crossfire, you need to connet by both connectors.

  3. Ali Says:

    I don’t think it necessarily matters about the xfire thing because in 4 way xfire you won’t be able to use all the connectors anyways.

    But more importantly about the board itself, from what I’ve heard there’s a possibility this may just be a board for shamino to bring foxconn some records, but either way, I don’t think it would be p45 simply because if anything x48 would be given the watercooled tec setup since people that can afford an x48 board obviously have the money for a good top of the line watercooling setup.

    Just look at asus, they always overload you with features, but only their maximus se and extreme (and I believe the rampage too) have the built in waterblocks, none of their p35 boards do

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