Foxconn is a place to find a great board with a good price, literally that they really went to great lenghts to improve the chipset and also make a great deal of mess out of the board, with more overclockability head room where you can fit your five SUV’s. More like the Foxconn Avenger, the P45 chipset, one of many Quantum Force certified boards form Foxconn.
Foxconn Avenger is based on the new P45 chipset, being one of the greatest choice and the newer based chipset than to the older P35, while the older chip is still in the market; the use of the P45 is overwhelming. With the Foxconn based motherboard of the P45, in the first glance the motherboard have changed in a way that the Northbridge is in between the CPU and the memory, with the same concept as the AMD, with the Northbridge between the memory, it based on the improved performance in the memory, with the less ground that the information is passed (remember the Intel based link up of all the memory transfer will need to pass the Northbridge first)
With the design of the Avenger, is little out of the ordinary, with the Northbridge so close to the CPU and the memory, and that the Northbridge can be a heating problem, with all of the Boards like the ASUS, needing a oversized silent cooling for the P45 chip, would not help the stability of the board, and also the memory slots way to close for any water-cooling on the memory, if you don’t want hot air flowing to it. Then there is eight phase PWM’s on top of the board accompanying with to long heat sink combo
The board is littered by block chips in the places I don’t get, with the places that an extra PCI will be scarifies with a chip pocks, and an usual site with a solo heat sink in the middle of the two PCIex, while you are thinking(heating problem) well it doesn’t produce that much or any in fact to inflict any video card stability, with the production of six SATA ports and one IDE port right angled, and that IDE is a dying breed of HDD and optical ports being replaced by faster SATA speed transfer (At most 3GB’s). It has a DDR3 memory with 2000MHz over clocked but a 1600MHz frequency. And the peripherals and the back O/I are the usual six USB ports two eSATA and a dedicated chip for Audio that you plug in the pins on top of the first PCIex.
While the performance are not that great as the entire guy in ASUS and Gigabyte used all the benefits of the P45, but it would not stop me from reviewing the Foxconn Avenger.
