Foxconn MARS @ Anandtech
“We recently took a first look at the Foxconn MARS motherboard and discovered that Foxconn is finally headed down the right path when it comes to product offerings in the enthusiast sector. Our initial testing of the MARS board revealed a product that is capable of competing with other mid-range enthusiast boards but does not stand out from the crowd.”
ASUS P5K3 Deluxe WIFI AP @ Bjorn3D
“The ASUS P5K3 Deluxe that I am reviewing today is basically the same motherboard, but without the integrated memory. My expectations of the motherboard were naturally high as it theoretically would be just as good as the Premium, but without the disadvantages of the integrated memory. Did it meet my expectations?”
ASUS Blitz Maximus @ TBreak
“Like the previous RoG boards, the Maximus comes to the battle ground heavily equipped. Starting with the basic stuff, you have six SATA cables, an IDE and a floppy cables as well as a back plate with one firewire and two USB ports. Like the previous RoG series, ASUS bundles a fan that sits on one of the heatsinks near the CPU area. The Q-Connector is also included that fits above the Reset/Power pins.”
DFI Blood Iron P35 @ TBreak
“The board has 6x SATA connectors with full support for RAID0/1/1+0/5. Six USB 2.0 connectors are positioned just below SATA connectors. Battery location looks good for the ATX motherboard, but it would be better if it has been moved away from PCI slots for easier access. There is only one PCI-e 16x slot since this isn’t Full-ATX form factor board, but there are also 2xPCI-e x1 and three PCI slots. FDD connector is located just underneath the third PCI slot.”
EVGA 680i SLI 775 A1 @ Motherboards.org
“EVGA has the best warranty in the motherboard business for the A1 series boards and that is hard to beat from any angle. Most of these NVIDIA chipset motherboards are identical in almost every way except cosmetics so actually any 680i motherboard will be basically the same quality.”
Gigabyte GA-X38T-DQ6 @ HardwareZone
“We return to Gigabyte’s stables to give their high-end X38 based DQ6 series another go. This time, we take the DDR3 GA-X38T-DQ6 out for a spin instead. How does the GA-X38T-DQ6 fare in comparison to the DDR-only GA-X38-DQ6? Find out inside.”
ASUS P5K @ TweakTown
“So far we have looked at a few P35 boards both based on DDR2 and DDR3 memory technologies from the major players like GIGABYTE, ASUS, MSI, Universal abit and even from the more unfamiliar companies like Foxconn and ECS. All of these offer a pretty good design and feature set depending on what your intent is.”
Biostar TP35D2-A7 @ PCStats
“Biostar’s TP35D2-A7 motherboard is built with Intel’s P35 Express and ICH9 chipsets, so with a Core 2 Duo or Core 2 Quad processor it becomes the backbone for a good WindowsXP or Vista PC. If you’re not interested in frills you can get the performance of the P35 Express without blowing a lot of money. Yup, performance without spending a fortune.”
MSI K9AG Neo2-Digital @ ViperLair
“Performance-wise, the MSI K9AG Neo2-Digital often flip flopped between the GeForce 6150 equipped MSI C51PV and the 690G based MSI K9AGM2-FIH. Synthetic benchmarks still favoured NVIDIA slightly, and the application and gaming benchmarks ended in the AMD 690G’s favour.”
Foxconn A690GM2MA-RS2H @ PCStats
“The Foxconn A690GM2MA-RS2H motherboard is based around AMD’s 690G / SB600 chipsets, and although it has both DVI and analog video outputs, it regrettably lacks the HDMI jack that many other AMD690G motherboards boast. In any case if you wanted to hook up the Foxconn A690GM2MA-RS2H motherboard to a HDTV, there’s always the DVI port.”