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Foxconn C51XEM2AA AM2 Motherboard Review

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The Specs

Processor:	AMD Sempron^TM, Athlon^TM 64, Athlon^TM 64x2, Athlon^TM 64FX processors, Socket AM2
Chipset:	NVIDIA nForce 590 SLI
Front Side Bus:	2000 MT/s HyperTransport^TM
Memory:	Dual channel DDR2 800 / 667 / 533 x 4 DIMMs, Max 8GB
VGA on Die:	N/A
Expansion Slots:	2 x PCIe x16, 1 x PCIe x4, 1 x PCIe x1, 2 x PCI
IDE:	ATA133 x 1
Serial ATA(SATA)/RAID:	Serial ATA II x 6 with RAID 0, 1, 0+1, 5, JBOD
Audio:	7.1+2 channel, Realtek ALC882D (HDA)
LAN:	Marvell 88E1121 Dual 10/100/1000 Base T Enthernet PHY
IEEE1394:	1394a x 2 (TSB82AA2B), 1394b x 1 (TSB81BA3)
Back Panel I/O Ports:	1 x PS/2 keyboard 1 x PS/2 mouse 1 x 1394a 1 x 1394b 6 x USB 2.0 2 x RJ45 1 set 7.1 channel Audio jacks (5 jacks + 1 S/PDIF output)
Internal I/O Connectors:	2 x USB 2.0 headers, support 4 ports 1 x Front audio header 1 x COM 1 x Speaker 1 x Front panel 1 x Buzzer 1 x 1394a
BIOS Features:	LPC-4Mb, ACPI 2.0b, APM 1.2, PnP 1.0a, SMBIOS 2.3, USB 2.0, WfM 2.0
Support CD:	NVIDIA nForce Driver, DirectX, Audio Driver, Adobe Reader, Norton Internet Security, Manual & Raid Manual, NVIDIA nTune, Foxconn LiveUpdate
Standards/Manageability:	USB 2.0, WfM 2.0, DMI 2.0, WOL by PME, LPC 1.1 Interface
Special Features:	NVIDIAÂ®LinkBoost^TM technology, SLI^TM-Ready, MediaShield storage^TM technology, HDA, NVIDIA nTune, NCQ, AMDÂ® Cool "n" Quiet^TM technology,Fox LiveUpdate, QuadSLi support
Form Factor:	ATX (12" x 9.6")

DDR2, raid levels 0, 1 and 5, USB 2.0 (a generous 6 ports on the rear of the panel), 2x PCI Express connectors for SLI configuration and up to six SATA hard drives are all present as they should be on a modern day motherboard. As we mentioned earlier, Foxconn have pushed out the boat to make sure the nTune software is fully supported making overclocking and tuning from within Windows a doddle. Six SATA cables (nice one Foxconn), a rounded PATA cable, floppy cable, SLI connectors, rear panel brackets for Firewire etc, I/O shield drivers and a chunky manual fill out the package.

In The Labs

Our test setup included a Athlon FX62 processor, 2GB Mushkin XP2-8000 DDR2 1000Mhz running at 4-5-4-11 timings, a western digital 150GB raptor hard drive and a couple of GeForce 7900GTX 512MB graphics cards. For comparison, we pitted the Foxconn against an Asus M2N32 SLI motherboard and the older Asus A8N32 SLI Deluxe Socket 939 board with PC4000 DDR.

First up a couple of old favourites in the form of Sisoft Sandra 2007.

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