Foxconn P67A-S Motherboard Review

The Foxconn P67A-S is positioned to be a mainstream P67 motherboard solution aimed at system builders looking to get a good return on their investment.  While gaming can be done on these platforms it is not a main focus of the product, at least in terms of high end gaming using SLI technology.  Despite this, there are several features of this motherboard that do stand out.

Features such as SATA3 and USB3 are great to have especially when dealing with large multimedia files and basic transfer speeds.  The expansion slot layout is very universal and provides support for two legacy PCI devices and up to with five PCI Express cards.  There is no included SLI bridge so any multi-gpu configuration will likely either be GPU  + PhysX or AMD Crossfire.  Digital audio helps to round out the product offering and really make this board a good base for any system your mom would love.

In terms of overall performance we cannot draw a definite conclusion and for a variety of reasons.  First and foremost the Sandy Bridge processor we used technically doesn't exist so the numbers will likely change once we get a proper processor to test with.  We also had issues with overclocking in the fact that none of our settings actually suck.  The issue here is likely not the motherboard but rather the particular processor we were using so overclocking performance is still up in the air.  Regardless the system ran like a champ from start to finish and even gave our Core i7 920 a run.

SATA3 and USB3 Available
Legacy IDE Support
Dual Video Card Slots
Voltage Test Pads
Bumble Bee Color Scheme

Small PWM design
No SLI support
SATA3 ports in line with second video card slot
Lots of effort put into mainstream board

We would like to thank Foxconn and nVidia for helping make this review possible.