So the P45 chipset is all but dead and the mainstream are going to be over taken by the more recent core 7i chipset and in the upcoming 5500 and the 5400 chips, probably having the same spec as the old P45 chipset, with far more room for over-clocking and also more features packed into the ATX form factor even use of triple DDR2 memory. But for now in the present the P45 is still the mainstream of most Intel boards so we still wait for the introduction of the 5500 and the 5400 core 7i chipset board.
So Foxconn made first their media PC board series, their more mainstream board coming up only in about $150 online so for those people who want a cheap ass board the Foxconn really made this subject an easy one. The P45Al is a low profile P45 chipset really stripping of most of the additional features high rise buildings with copper fins and pipes are all throw out of the drawing board and also the dual graphics configuration is also thrown out to give the price as it is, only to its basic feature are only present now. But there are still the solid state capacitors present and also six SATA ports present for most of the basic use of storage and also Optical connection DVD and Blu-rays to be exact. And also the memory modules are placed in the middle of the board and are also spread apart to give way for that water-block for memory cooling systems but still have enough room for the graphics card to be removed easily and the modules too. But the design of the board shows that it has the reference blue PCB color and even the IDE port is place in the most inconvenient right on top of the board but overall the place is spacious and good for most of the normal PC makers enough to make use of the features.
Performance is rather mixed in the bag, with getting the apps in random order the raw performance in the CPU is just down for some reason even adding a high frequency quad core it still scored far lower than the quad core orient boards like ASUS even beating it in some multithreading apps. With some decoding and encoding apps look rather well with option given but with a slower bandwidth score you would play a ahead with a fraction slower form the main competition. While it looks in the good part with the pricing the board rather finds itself with the performance in the low mark we would expect a good buy for this but the downing of the board score we should keep away from it.
