Published: Monday 4th August, 2008 | Author: Scott Bicheno
Companies: NVIDIA (All NVIDIA content)
printer friendly layout 
discuss in the forums 
email to a friend| Next page: NVIDIA's response |
Foxconn announced today that it was not going to continue with the development of its planned Dreadnought motherboard due to issues with the NVIDIA 790i chipset.
Carl Brunning, the UK technical manager at Foxconn, told HEXUS: “The [790i] chip is not of the quality standard that we needed for the Quantum Force range.”
Quantum Force is Foxconn’s relatively recent entry into the enthusiast motherboard space. It has already released the Mars and Black Ops, with the 780a Destroyer expected soon, having been delayed by a BIOS rewrite, according to Brunning.
The P45 Avenger is apparently still a work in progress, with BIOS debugging being the delaying factor here too, but the 790i Dreadnought has left the building. Brunning confirmed that nobody in the media and certainly no consumers had received any Dreadnoughts.
Here's one on show at this year's Computex.
| Next page: NVIDIA's response |
Marcus Evans conferences
Find out about the latest events and news from Marcus Evans on their blog page!
Copyright © 1998 - 2009, HEXUS.net. All rights reserved. Terms, conditions and privacy information.
HEXUS® is a registered trademark of HEXUS Limited.
Which OS launch are you more excited by?
IE7 Search
Firefox 2 Search