Other LGA1366 Mainboards in Quantum Force Series

Well, our review of Foxconn BloodRAGE mainboard has come to an end, however, I wanted to draw your attention to a few other Foxconn mainboards from Quantum Force series based on Intel X58 Express chipset and to an overall unusual situation. Foxconn used to release several “regular” mainboards on the same chipset and only one top product in the Quantum Force series. This time, however, there is the entire elite family of mainboards on Intel X58 Express. Foxconn BloodRAGE reviewed today is the top flagship solution in this family. The next one in this hierarchy is Foxconn BloodRAGE GTI that differs from the top model only by the absence of additional SAS and IEEE1394 controllers.

Besides, there are two more mainboards in the Quantum Force series that have very close features: Foxconn FlamingBlade and FlamingBlade GTI.

Foxconn FlamingBlade has two PCI Express 2.0 x16 slots instead of the excessive four, the discrete sound card moved onto the board, the CPU voltage regulator circuitry has only six phases and there is only one Gigabit network controller.

FlamingBlade GTI also has no 4-in-1 Quantum Cooler and is equipped with common looking heatsinks that seem very efficient. Besides, there are no eSATA connectors on the back panel anymore.

I think Foxconn FlamingBlade and FlamingBlade GTI mainboards look even better-balanced than BloodRAGE and BloodRAGE GTI. They haven’t lost anything significant, I could even say that they have simply got rid of a few excessive functions having kept everything really necessary. Anyway, if are not happy about something in Foxconn BloodRAGE, you may be able to find a better option for you among the other three models in Foxconn Quantum Force series based on Intel X58 Express chipset.