From our brief initial testing of the X38 chipset and the Foxconn X38A mainboard, its hard to come to a solid conclusion. Due to the fact that the motherboard didnt ship with the final cooling design and has a pre-production BIOS, we deferred overclo...
Mainboards manufactured by the same maker are usually very similar. Just look at their BIOS and you will se typical features of the particular manufacturer. However, Foxconn X38A stands out here. As frustrating as it is, but the board is unable to over...
Highly overclockable with DDR2, Supports new 1333 FSB, On board power/reset/clear CMOS switches, Intuitive placement of expansion slots, PCIe 2.0, Supports new Penryn chips
Poor overclocking with DDR3, Large CPU heat sinks may not fit, BIOS is immature
The Foxconn X38A is an interesting board. I have seen other boards in the past that tried to support two different standards to make upgrading easier only to be left by the wayside due to poor performance. Surprisingly this is not the case here with t...
Abstract: Intel X38 chipset (X38 north bridge and ICH9R south bridge) Top motherboards do not bring much profit, they have a relatively small target audience (including IT reviewers ;). As a rule, they offer so many excessive features that nobody uses all of the...
Abstract: Overclocking is alive and well! PCSTATS has all the details you need to see at a glance to know which board is best. The chart weve compiled below lists the highest overclocked Front Side Bus speeds we were able to achieve while maintaining 100% stabi...
Abstract: Today, we are reviewing another motherboard built on the Intel X38 chipset. Release of Intels new high-end chipset has not proved users expectations. Yes, it does support sufficient number of PCI Express bus lanes (of the new v2.0 specifications) to ...
Abstract: As we got used to Intel presenting new chipsets quite often, it is rather strange that the 975X chipset managed to remain on the high-end market for nearly two years (the 975X chipset appeared on the market in December 2005 for the first time). In the ...
Foxconn has provided us boards in the past, but nothing of this level. Foxconn has been more on the OEM and budget radar, but today we have seen the first of what we hope to be many mainstream and overclockers boards; their X38A has proven to us that ...
The Foxconn X38A came to us in an unassuming anti-static bag, sporting an unassuming layout design. Now, Foxconn is one of the biggest players in the manufacturing sector, and yet, their motherboards are usually simple and only capable enough to be via...
