FiringSquad reviews Foxconn Mars Intel P35 Express based motherboard
When a computer enthusiast hears the brand name Foxconn, nothing out of the ordinary comes to mind. In fact, Foxconn is one of the biggest OEMs in the world. They manufacture electronics for many name brands and themselves. Foxconn's products tend to be low priced and low on features. In the OEM computer market, Foxconn makes cases, CPU coolers, power supplies, video cards, and most famously (or infamously?) motherboards. Foxconn isn't known for any particular product segment, like ASUS is known for their motherboards, and Shuttle is known for their barebone XPCs. Many PC OEMs such as Dell and HP use Foxconn boards and power supplies. In the enthusiast market, they are known as a low end motherboard and video card maker. We haven't reviewed a Foxconn product in almost two years. We introduced NVIDIA's nForce 5 series chipset with a Foxconn board. NVIDIA commissioned Foxconn to make a reference nF590 SLI board, the C51XEM2AA. This board turned out to be a great success, with great overclocking, layout, and performance compared to the other nF590 SLI boards...
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